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[Jules Horn @juleshorn01]

I used to think I needed more.

More workouts.
More supplements.
More discipline.

But the biggest change in how my body felt came from something much simpler.

Just 8 minutes of mindful movement every morning.

These aren’t random exercises.

They’re rhythmic movements that help restore the body’s natural ability to move, breathe, and regulate itself.

When I practice them consistently, I notice:

• Less stiffness when I wake up.
• Better posture without thinking about it.
• Freer shoulders and hips.
• A calmer nervous system.
• More energy throughout the day.
• My body simply feels, lighter.

The goal isn’t to burn calories.

It’s to restore movement that modern life has taken away.

When your body moves rhythmically, your fascia glides more easily, your joints stay nourished, your breath deepens, and your nervous system receives a signal that you’re safe enough to let go of unnecessary tension.

That’s why this has become my non-negotiable morning ritual.

These 8 minutes have done more for my body than chasing the “perfect” workout ever did.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

The below 7 quotes have shaped my thinking and changed my behavior over the last year.

I revisit them often.

“Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.”
— Arthur Koestler

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
— Robert M. Pirsig

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
— Yousuf Karsh

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
― Winston Churchill

“I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’”
— From The Art of Possibility by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander

[Joshua Arieh @JoshuaArieh]

Since 2 people will find an insane amount of wealth after today, let’s start a thread on the dumbest ways you’ve gone broke. I’ll start

When I was 20, there was a pool table at the fair. Rules were simple, break and run 4 balls any order, win any prize. 4 balls on the table, easy, right? LOL, $2500 later I was broke and had zero prizes.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

You wake up
Your husband looks young, the same mustache he used to have over twenty years ago
There are voices in the kitchen
You sit and listen, you can make out one, two… three, three little voices all the way in the kitchen
There is the smell of pancakes in the air, along with some bacon, you are hungry
You look down, your hands, so young
As soon as you walk into the kitchen little voices all cry out your name “mama, mama!!” Hugs filled the air along with sticky syrup hands, but you do not care
By the sink there he stands, your husband
Tall, full head of blonde hair, and you cannot help but hug him. His body feels so strong, filled with youth, you take his smell in, and you stand there taking in the warmth, listening to the children arguing over who gets the last piece of bacon, watching their little feet run across the kitchen floor, memorizing everything, because this ordinary so unimportant Saturday is what you wish you could go back to the most

And then you wake up, life has gone by, you are old, the house is empty, the children are grown, your body aches

And you finally know, you finally understand that at the end of life you will not wish to have had more promotions, to have gone back for one more day of work, to of had more time to clean the house, for one more day of school, for errands, for anything else besides a slow Saturday morning where the air smells like pancakes, and the house is filled with little voices, and you are woken up to the small bodies and the smell of the little heads you love most in the entire world.

An extraordinary life is made up of ordinary days. Of a summer breeze, and small hands, of cold cheeks you kiss in the autumn afternoons, of a steady hand that holds yours, of the wonderful miracle that is having everyone you love, all with you under the same roof.

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

Cain Velasquez speaks candidly about the decision he made to protect his child and the consequences that came with it:

"I did what I did, and it wasn't right.

At the same time, everything that happened was part of my journey. I have to live with what I did, but if I hadn't done anything, I think that would've hurt me the most. If my child had ever looked at me and said, 'You didn't do anything,' that would've been the hardest thing for me to live with."

[Sooh | @AbisoyeOfLagos]

Norm Macdonald completely derailing an interview with professional snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington by asking the most deadpan, inappropriate questions is just hilarious.
😂😂😂

Conan O'Brien: Are there any tricks that you're known for in particular?
Kaitlyn Farrington: There is, funny you should mention, it's called the crippler.
Norm Macdonald: Being crippled? No? Didn't? No?

Drop your thoughts in the replies because there is no way you keep a straight face while Norm ruins a professional athlete's segment with total nonsense. 😭🤣

[Grant @iamgrantowen]

He just quit.

He was a primary editor for Diary of a CEO.

So I asked him to tell all of his secrets for how he helps the Diary of a CEO be the number 1 podcast on YouTube.

00:00:00 Why Trailers Are Essential for Podcast Growth
00:03:30 Why Most People Are Doing Trailers Wrong
00:06:36 From Film and TV to Diary of a CEO
00:11:48 Retention Rates and What They Actually Mean
00:14:52 What Actually Makes a Podcast Good
00:17:00 Why the Guest Is 50% of Everything
00:22:59 What Makes a Great Podcast Host
00:26:31 Red Flags in Podcast Trailers
00:30:33 The Jefferson Fisher Hook Breakdown
00:34:16 The Louis Tomlinson Hook Breakdown
00:42:35 The 15 Point Checklist for the Perfect Trailer
00:45:28 The Oz Pearlman Hook (41 Second Rule)
00:48:06 The Laughter Track Hack
00:54:11 Sound Design and Visual Details
00:57:04 How to Choose Music Like a Film Director
01:00:02 Disney Imagineering Lesson
01:02:46 The Vanessa Van Edwards Hook Breakdown
01:07:02 The Kevin Hart Narrative Arc Breakdown
01:16:40 The A-B-C Storytelling Framework
01:20:13 The Easiest Win You Can Implement Right Now
01:22:36 How Diary of a CEO Uses AI

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.

He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin's House on the Mountain test:

Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.

"Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you'll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste."

"This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves."

"I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me."

[Silverhand @21xSilverhand]

A man who went to prison for talking people out of their money filmed himself doing it live, then sold the method as a course. 7 million people have watched him work.

The man is Jordan Belfort. The film about him made him famous. What almost nobody has done is watch the real one, on camera, running the actual technique on a real prospect for 22 minutes with no script and no edit.

And the way he does it is the reason to watch.

He barely talks about the product. The first minutes are almost entirely questions, and every answer gets used against the person later in his own words. He is not persuading. He is collecting.

Then the phrase the comments turned into a meme. He ends his key sentences with four words that make agreement feel like the neutral option and refusal feel like rudeness. Once you notice it, you cannot unhear it, and you will catch it in the next call you take.

One viewer broke the whole method into 9 steps in a comment. It got 12 thousand likes, which tells you people are studying this video like a manual.

Here is the uncomfortable part. Every technique in it is ordinary sales advice: listen, mirror, remove friction, set expectations. That is exactly what makes it worth studying. The tools were never the crime. The intent was.

Learn what is being done to you and it stops working on you. That is the only defense there is.

22 minutes. No script. It is in the video.

[Yukon Strong 🫎 @YukonStrong]

Elon Musk identifies the root cause of Canada's decline

Canadian MP's in every political party exploiting the racist voting habits of foreigners

...through theft of income and hyper taxation.

[Amelia @AmeliaRodrigJan]

Ari Shaffir 60 second set on Kill Tony!. He looks like the Liver King got liver failure.

[Zephyr @Zephyr_hg]

Anderson Cooper laid the picture back to the Anthropic CEO:

"you've described a future where cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced.

and 20% of people don't have jobs."

in a 10-min CNN interview, that future is the one Dario Amodei laid out himself

he says people will adapt, but may not adapt fast enough

cancer cured and 20% without work, from the man building it

the people who adapt fast are the ones who get the first half

watch it, save it, then see the skill in the article below ↓

[Eva Ai| Gate美股0费率 @Eva200699]

32岁的马斯克，2003年在斯坦福做了场45分钟闭门演讲，真的顶得上十本创业书

他直接把自己当时手里的三家公司——Zip2、PayPal、刚成立一年的SpaceX——从0到活下来的全过程，一层层拆给你看

怎么找方向、怎么控成本、怎么在几乎没钱的时候活下来、怎么用第一性原理拆问题

放到今天看，依然不过时

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

QUESTION for the workout bros:

My lower back is wrecked at the moment. I don’t have endless gym equipment (dumbbell set, cable machine). ANY variation of squats I’ve tried has only hurt it worse.

Soooo, how do i do legs?

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

How to train legs without heavy loading on your back

[Damir Akaza @Damir_Akaza]

https://t.co/t9At1EzrSN

[mighty🎭 @mightydgaf]

Charlie Sheen reveals how years of partying changed his life forever, saying he believes he contracted HIV during that period, feared he was dying from a terminal illness, and admits the diagnosis left him at the "doorstep of hopelessness."

"I didn't have it before that, and then found out I had it right after that... I thought it was a brain tumor or liver cancer or something terminal... It was really depressing... but then I realized, 'We can treat this thing.'"

[Stand up Comedy @comedystorm1]

Dave Chappelle is dying over Shane Gillis’s Trump impression at The Linc“Imma say, sir…” hits different when Chappelle is right there cracking up. Historic night Shane broke the records for biggest comedy crowd ever and brought out Dave for this moment.

[Sooh | @AbisoyeOfLagos]

Ben Affleck talking about what it was like living with Matt Damon is hilarious.

Ben Affleck: We went weeks, two weeks without touching the apartment. Came home one day, me and him. Matt's there in his shorts, his t-shirt, just surrounded by like concentric circles of garbage, pizza boxes.

Ben Affleck: I looked down at this sushi thing that was like a week and a half old, and there's maggots.

Ben Affleck: And we were like, we submit. We submit. You are too good. We cannot beat you.

I would simply pack my bags and walk straight out the door if I had to live with someone like that.

Drop your thoughts in the replies because there is no way anyone could survive living in a mess like that 👇🏼