I’ve been consciously walking like this and honestly, it’s a world of difference. It engages the hips, lower back, and thighs wayyy more.
Better hip extension → improved pelvic stability → more core/lower back activation → upright posture.
BREAKING: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City, holding a banner from the skyscraper's antenna reading, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."
As of now it's unclear how the pair reached the top of the building as police work to get them down from the spire, 1,454 feet above the ground.
There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.
He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.
He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.
His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.
He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.
He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.
Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.
Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.
He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.
He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.
The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.
Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.
But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.
Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.
I have friends who were early Bitcoin investors. I met them in 2014 at various Bitcoin meetups. None of them have X accounts, and they often make fun of me for having one.
One of them owns a hotel in Greece, in Halkidiki. He’s living his best life, and from time to time we meet at his hotel.
Recently, he was joking with me about posting on X and trying to convince people that Bitcoin is the best asset of our lifetime. He said: “You can’t change people’s karma. Everyone creates their own aura. If someone lives in an aura of poverty, you can’t change that, even if you forcefully give them Bitcoin. A day later, Trump will tweet something negative, they’ll sell it, and then gamble the money on who will become President in 2028.”
I asked him, “What about those who have an energy of prosperity?”
He replied: “Those who have an energy of prosperity won’t pay much attention to Bitcoin’s short-term price action. We became this successful because when we discovered Bitcoin, the flow of information wasn’t this overwhelming. All we had was each other, and no one was constantly using psychological pressure to try to shake us out.”
I asked him to create an X account and help people who, like him, started from less than zero. (By the way, he didn’t start from zero - he started with debt inherited from his family line.)
I suggested that helping others break free from financial slavery could be a way of giving back to the world that had given him so much.
He refused, even though he has plenty of free time. He said that society often destroys the very people who contribute the most when doing so serves its own interests. As an example, he pointed to Saylor and the way the Bitcoin community treat him.