Neurodivergent, INFJ, sigma male, starseed, call me what you like labels are for crap food packaging. Played life on hard mode, I’m going to win. So can you!!!
As a man, I've always felt this overwhelming, built-in drive to be useful to others and to have others recognize that I am useful. This feeling started when I was very young and increased in intensity as I grew older.
I felt compelled to become physically strong, coordinated, and athletic. I felt internally pushed to learn to do difficult tasks and become proficient at them. There has always been this drive to become highly competent and demonstrate that openly to others and offer that competence in service of others.
One of the most distressing trends I have witnessed is more and more boys and men making excuses for not embracing this inner drive towards strength, resilience, competence, and excellence.
Grown men who are emotionally distressed when things aren't exactly to their liking, who are afraid to do difficult challenges, who expect the world to make life easy for them, and who neglect the needs of people around them.
These are men who have failed to embrace the masculine drive to become strong and constsantly work to be able to bear more of the weight of the world on their shoulders and contribute to their families and communities in service.
The normalization of weak men is one of the biggest dangers to human civilization. The entire edifice has been built and sustained by people who continually embrace the most difficult challenges they can manage, in service to their families and communities.
This willingness to bear excruciating burdens and carry humanity forward on your own shoulders is what has brought us this far.
Men who are lazy, who seek endless entertainment and an easy life are a destructive and demoralizing menace to civilization. These attitudes and behaviors should be vigorously discouraged, and stronger men should more openly set an example to other boys and men of what it means to be a competent, courageous, and fully developed man.
A frustrated mind rarely finds brilliant ideas.
The answer usually arrives after you stop chasing it.
Go for a walk.
Lift.
Sleep.
Write.
Then come back.
Self-awareness is the first step to self-mastery.
Without the ability to figure out your bottlenecks, limiting beliefs and self-deprecating behaviours, you cannot and will not improve.
You don’t need to think less.
You need to stop standing inside every thought.
Become aware between your eyebrows and watch the distance appear naturally.
Big box gyms are quietly admitting cardio isn't king for fat loss.
They're ripping out cardio equipment and replacing it with strength training space.
The footprint of the gym is changing because the data changed. Fat loss goal = strength training, not treadmills.
Once you embrace that attention and the neural circuits for holding attention are plastic/malleable, you’re on your way to better focus.
Learn to ignore/not engage in meaningless drama or numbing out. Or get passed by.
Bite down into some hard work/learning for hours a day.
@NAllison89 Are you saying because you don’t understand kids these days that somehow they are the problem or that everyone is different, that’s ok, and you don’t need drugs for your mental health. I’m not clear on your statement
We all have unique needs and responsibilities I get that as well as possible 👊🏻 I say possible because no matter how much we may think we understand others we don’t ever truly know anyone.
I’ve been documenting my fasting process and building a YouTube channel it’s not all there yet. I’ve had a lot of learning to do but, it’s entertaining check it out sometime @Mutating_Cain
https://t.co/f0Aa8YFOoP
I practice intermittent fasting, and one of my favorite things to do is three to four hours of intense manual labor while in a fasted state.
I have no glycogen in my muscles at that point and am using my own stored fat the whole time. And I don't feel hungry at all. It's a wonderful thing!