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Buscando valor esperado positivo en cada elección. 📈
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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain produces somewhere around 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts a day. According to a figure widely cited from the National Science Foundation, up to 80 percent of them are negative, and up to 95 percent are the same ones you had yesterday.

That means the voice in your head is running on a loop, and the loop is biased toward threat, because the brain evolved to keep you alive, not to keep you happy. A thought like "I am not ready for this" fires the amygdala, your brain's alarm centre, which floods you with cortisol, the stress hormone. Cortisol makes you more reactive and more likely to have the same thought again, and the repetition digs the groove deeper each time.

This is why affirmations work as counter-programming. When you repeat a sentence like "I can handle this," you are building a competing pathway. The first few times it feels empty, because the old groove is deeper. But the brain rewires itself based on what it practises, and a 2015 study from the University of Pennsylvania found that a repeated values affirmation activates the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that handles reasoning, and quiets the amygdala over time.

The research suggests that the mechanism works the same way whether you write the affirmation, say it out loud, or read it from a card. What matters is repetition and personal relevance, choosing words that connect to something you care about. Generic positivity does not land the same way a sentence about something you care about does. The more specific the statement, the stronger the signal. https://t.co/suEZKh5ARf

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Consider this mindset:

-Never in a hurry
-Never worried
-Never desperate
-Never stopping short

[Profe Aurelio @Profe_Aurelio]

Vivir con coraje y honestidad te dará más sabiduría que la lectura voraz de 200 libros de filosofía.

[Pedro Becerro @pedrobecerro_]

Hace poco he descubierto este comparador de tarifas de luz que no requiere registro, referidos ni dar datos personales.

Metes los datos de tu consumo actual y te dice la tarifa que te saldría más barata con tu consumo actual.

https://t.co/5UC37dQArg

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

Charlie Munger:

“The secret to life is easy because it's so simple:

You don’t have a lot of envy or resentment. You don’t overspend your income. You stay cheerful in spite of your troubles. You deal with reliable people and you do what you’re supposed to do.”

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

"Confidence is just a mindset thing. Fake it till you make it."

What's actually underneath most of it:

> GABA signaling determines whether your nervous system reads a room as safe or threatening before you've thought a single thought

> Dopamine tone sets your baseline motivation and risk tolerance independent of any pep talk

> Chronic inflammation blunts the exact neurotransmitter systems confidence runs on

Mindset work is real and it helps. It was never going to override a nervous system biochemically locked into threat detection. Fix the terrain, and the mindset work finally has something to build on.

[Naval @naval]

We’re searching for permanent satisfaction with an impermanent mind in an impermanent world.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

you need to be delusionally optimistic

negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline

whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.

you must be a silly goose

[Marcos Vazquez - Fitness Revolucionario @FITrebelde]

Presume de tener cosas que no se pueden comprar 😊

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Every decision you make shapes who you have to live with tomorrow. Make sure you’re creating a person you like being with.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Every time you delay, you reinforce the habit of delay. Every time you act, you reinforce the habit of action.
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In every moment, you are practicing something—make sure it’s what you actually want to get better at.

[Valor Mental 🧠 @valormental]

Mi cita favorita de Atomic Habits de James Clear:

"No tiene sentido seguir queriendo algo si no estás dispuesto a hacer lo que sea necesario para conseguirlo.
Si no quieres vivir ese estilo de vida, entonces libérate del deseo.
“Anhelar el resultado pero no el proceso es garantizar la decepción”

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

You didn't "lose your edge" in your 30s. Your methylation broke down and nobody told you it was even a thing

That sharpness you had at 24 where you could work all day, go out at night, sleep 5 hours, and still think clearly the next morning wasn't youth. It was a body that could process and recycle neurotransmitters efficiently. Dopamine got made. Serotonin got made. They got used and cleared and rebuilt in a loop that ran clean

Then your B12 started dropping because your stomach acid declined from years of stress and coffee on an empty stomach. Your folate utilization shifted because you've got an MTHFR variant you've never been tested for.

Your homocysteine crept up quietly. Your SAMe production fell off.

And now you can't focus. You're irritable for no reason. You have this low-grade brain fog that never fully clears. Caffeine used to sharpen you up and now it just makes you anxious. You forget why you walked into rooms. You used to read for hours and now you can't finish a paragraph

You went to your doctor and he said "that's just getting older." Maybe prescribed something for focus or anxiety. Probably didn't test homocysteine. Definitely didn't test methylmalonic acid or run a functional B12 panel

You're running a cofactor bottleneck in the one-carbon metabolism cycle that controls how your brain makes, uses, and clears every neurotransmitter you rely on to function.

Actually fixing it:

Get homocysteine tested. If it's above 8 you have a methylation issue whether you "feel" it or not

Active B vitamins (methylfolate + methylcobalamin + P5P). Not the cheap cyanocobalamin garbage in your CVS multivitamin that your body can barely convert

Creatine. Handles roughly 40% of your methylation burden and takes pressure off the whole system

Eat enough protein. Methionine from animal protein feeds the cycle. Vegans and undereaters run dry here first

Glycine and collagen. Glycine is the biggest consumer of methyl groups in the body. Supplementing it directly reduces demand on the cycle

Fix the gut (obviously). B12 absorption requires intrinsic factor and adequate stomach acid. If your gut is wrecked, oral B12 barely touches it

Your biochemistry is running on empty and every doctor you've seen has mistaken a nutrient bottleneck for time passing.

I break down the full methylation pathway, what to test, and exactly how to restore it on my substack. link in bio

[Marcos Pérez @inversobrio]

Bueno, pues acaba de salir, calentito del horno.

Los informes del SPIVA y de Pablo Fernández por estas fechas son como las hamburguesas del McDonald's: Vayas donde vayas y sea el año que sea, siempre te encuentras con lo mismo.

Si novedad en el frente. El año pasado el 79% de los fondos US no batieron al índice. Y a 20 años, estamos cada vez más cerca del 100% en todas las categorías.

(Link al estudio en comentarios).

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

You’re not procrastinating.
You’re conserving.

When metabolic output is low and cortisol is high,
your brain chooses safety over expansion.

Building a business feels dangerous.

So you avoid.

Not laziness.
Energy economics.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

"i need a lot of money to be happy!!"

- hiking: $0
- sleeping: $0
- surfing: $0
- sunning your balls: $0
- meaning: $0
- walk on the beach: $0
- meditating: $0
- love: $0

you're ruining your chance at real happiness by spending your life chasing lots of money

[MM - Manifiesto Masculino. @ManifiestoMas]

La disciplina es aburrida.
El trabajo duro es aburrido.
El ejercicio es aburrido.

Hacer lo mismo todos los días es aburrido.

Como hombre que quiere llegar lejos en la vida, aprende a estar aburrido, en silencio y solo.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You will love whatever you pour your heart into. Passion follows commitment.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The intensity of your grief matches the intensity of your love.

People who never hurt deeply likely never loved deeply either.

[MM - Manifiesto Masculino. @ManifiestoMas]

Sé un hombre apasionado por ganar dinero, comer sano, perseguir su propósito, practicar deportes y divertirse.

No un hombre adicto a las drogas, el alcohol y la pornografía.

Nunca te deprimirás.