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[lanz @lanznathanjohn]

If everyone is a victim of their own circumstance, why should anyone be held accountable?

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Mediocrity does not need a villain. It only needs sustained inattention.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

dont be confident, be over confident. be delusionally confident. be so confident that doors open for you and reality bends for you. be sure that GOD walks beside you. The meek inherit nothing if they never believed they were worthy of more. be too much. be impossible to ignore.

[John Fadule @fadule_]

-get jacked
-crush it at work
-marry an honest woman (with a good body)
-treat her amazing
-travel the world
-watch good movies
-avoid complainers
-prioritize your health
-call your friends for no reason
-be a hot strong dad
-host banger dinner parties
-and if you’re ever feeling down remember you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Hana 🧡 @HanaHoops]

Hold on a damn minute

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

Am no shrink but the maxim "the boy is the father of the man" is the single most wise insight into men that I am aware of

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Seneca was right when he said to be happy you must eliminate 2 things: the fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists shut off the dopamine in some rats and they stopped eating. Food everywhere. They starved in a full cage, not because they hated it. Put sugar on their tongue and they licked their lips. They still liked it. They just lost the drive to go get it.

This is one of the strangest things we know about the brain, and it traces back to a researcher named Kent Berridge at the University of Michigan. Your head runs two different systems. One is wanting, the push that gets you off the couch and moving. The other is liking, the good feeling once you are in it. Dopamine runs the wanting. The enjoyment runs on separate wiring. So you can be sure you will love something and still feel almost no pull to start it.

That is the man in the cartoon, swinging at rock with diamonds all around him. He could see the good stuff. He just could not make himself dig toward it.

Once you see why, the usual story about procrastination stops making sense. We say lazy, or bad with time. Mostly, it is neither. Two psychologists, Fuschia Sirois and Tim Pychyl, argued back in 2013 that it runs on emotion. A task makes you feel something you would rather not feel, even just the small dread of starting, and putting it off makes that feeling vanish on the spot. So you scroll, or you suddenly need to clean the kitchen. Dodging the task is a quick hit of relief, and your brain grabs it. The bill goes straight to future-you, who is left holding the guilt and the deadline.

You can even see it on a brain scan. In 2018, a team in Germany scanned 264 people and matched the scans against how much each person put things off. The big procrastinators had a larger amygdala, the little alarm bell deep in the brain that flags anything risky. They also had a weaker link to the part meant to quiet that alarm and get you moving, a region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Loud alarm, weak off-switch.

And if this is you, you have plenty of company. A big 2007 review found that 80 to 95 percent of college students procrastinate, that roughly one in five adults does it long-term, and that more than 95 percent of them wish they could quit. Students alone burn about a third of their day on it.

The fix falls out of that same split. If wanting and liking are two different systems, then waiting to "feel like it" is waiting for a bus that may never come. The main treatment for the severe version, called behavioral activation, flips the order. You start first, as small as you can stand, before any motivation shows up. The wanting tends to arrive a few minutes after you begin. The diamonds were there the whole time. You just have to swing the pick before you feel ready.

[Silentum 🦁 @xKhalifan]

YOU EITHER WIN OR DIE TRYING

Stop being weak. Losing is not an option. Don’t let others demotivate you. Bet on yourself. Go all in. Sacrifice everything for that one goal. You are alone on this journey. Nothing else matters. Pressure. A hunger to succeed. Death doesn’t scare you. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Create your own destiny.

It’s impossible to lose if you decide to keep going, no matter what. Those who failed didn’t want it badly enough.

The opportunities for you to win are infinite. Align yourself with that reality.

365 times: “Do not be afraid.”

[BOSS @thebeautyofsaas]

>earplugs will change your life
>10k steps a day
>pocket notebook (carry everywhere)
>notifications off at all times (only on for the family + emergencies)
>to live a happy life avoid unhappy people
>stop treating your life as a lottery
>learn to use compounding to your advantage

[tanisha raghav @moonsrabbit7]

healed so much that I stopped caring about being healed enough

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

If there is a quote worth committing to memory, it's this one.

[ishy @ishygoel]

- joy sullivan

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The most important decision of your life

[mie @girlpov]

taps the sign