Pierce Weatherly

I'm not me when I'm hungry

[Jeff Le🅱️🅱️y’s 🅱️urner™️ @Lebby_Burner]

“Kamario is gonna be in another jersey next season” they say

“Kamario isn’t staying at MSU” they say

“He’s winning a Heisman somewhere else” they say

“Kamario is gonna take the money at another school that has more” they say

Shut y’all goofy mouths up and watch this while I shed a tear listening to it

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”

-Teddy Roosevelt

[MaxPreps @MaxPreps]

WHAT. A. ENDING: Gulfport with the state title walk-off.

@Gulfport_FB wins the 7A Mississippi state title.

@mylanD1stubbs

[Noah Mashburn @Noah_Mashburn]

Please respect my decision

[ItsGundo! @GundamIsHere]

Remember this when a celebrity tires to tell you how to vote.

[Manish Kumar @manishkhosiya]

Excel has over 750M users.

But 98% of them are leaving power on the table.

Here are 10 insanely powerful Excel hacks you wish you knew earlier:

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

What if I told you that a single income once provided a home, a car, and a comfortable life for an entire family?

One shift in the economy made sure that would never happen again.

Here’s how they used feminism to double the workforce, slash wages, and turn two incomes into a necessity🧵

[Tour Golf (not PGA Tour) @PGATUOR]

Problem = solved 💯

[Young Parik @YoungParikPatel]

Ok new plan

[Gary Stone @GaryStoneSWS]

During the '08 market crash, this man turned $27M into $50 BILLION.

He was accused of cheating, stealing, and insider trading.

The truth? He simply did the OPPOSITE of what others told him to.

Here's David Tepper's contrarian guide to making Billions in a crisis: 🧵

[Kaelan Dorr @Kaelan]

TikTok creator with 6.5m followers WRECKS Kamala

She’s cooked

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Commentary on the 1987 stock market crash

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

As it’s the final round of #TheOpen in Royal Troon, Scotland today, here’s the incomparable Robin Williams discussing how golf was invented in Scotland. Genius. ⛳️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

In 1963, a man noticed his chickens disappearing through a hole in his basement.

He knocked through the wall, revealing what is hard to believe: a 20,000-person city, deep below ground.

It was built by Christians over 1,000 years ago... (thread) 🧵

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Jeff Bezos talks about the morning routine of a billionaire.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

There are just six cities where the median-priced home is affordable for median-income earners, per FOX:

Pittsburgh
Cleveland
St. Louis
Memphis, Tennessee
Indianapolis
Birmingham, Alabama

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Cost of college tuition has risen 710% since 1983
(1200% if you go back to 1980).

CPI Inflation meanwhile? 194%

This crazy situation is primarily because the Federal govt gives loans to anyone with a pulse. Since everyone has plenty of money, universities no longer have any incentive to control costs.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The American Dream now costs $3,455,305—that's the estimated lifetime cost of common milestones including marriage, two children, homes, healthcare, cars, and education, per Investopedia:

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier

This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well.

The book dives into trying to figure out why kids are having so many mental health problems, when there are so many resources devoted to improving mental health outcomes.

Anxiety, depression, suicide, etc are all higher than they've ever been with kids, even though their lives are arguably better than ever before. It just doesn't make sense.

A few key takeaways from the book:

A constant attention on how kids are "feeling" or "thinking" is causing negative outcomes.

Constantly ruminating on your emotions and how you feel negatively impacts your mental health. If all you do is focus on your emotions, you are destined to be anxious or depressed.

We incessantly ask kids how they're feeling, if they're happy, how their mental health is, etc, and this is creating kids who think they're fragile instead of resilient.

Trying to solve every problem for kids has caused a generation who can't do anything for themselves.

We (Gen X) were told to "suck it up" or "you'll live" or "rub some dirt on it" all the time. Many of us came to the conclusion this is "bad parenting" because our feelings were neglected, and we vowed not to do this to our own children.

Because of that, kids immediately over-dramatize everything that happens to them, making mountains out of molehills, and thinking the world must revolve around their emotions and feelings.

You develop confidence and strong mental health by doing things, not by thinking or via therapy.

You can't think your way out of anxiety. You don't gain confidence by analysis of your thoughts or mental health issues.

You gain confidence and eliminate anxiety by doing gradually more difficult tasks, excelling at them, and realizing you are a competent, capable person.

The non-stop attention therapy gives to these small, common emotions we all feel blows them out of proportion to their seriousness (not talking about genuine disorders here, just normal anxieties that millions of people go to therapy to try to avoid).

One of the best ways to decrease your happiness is to chase it.

Our society constantly tells kids they should be "happy" and asks them if they are.

Happiness isn't a state you should be in 24/7. That's not realistic. Joy and bliss aren't permanent states - they are fleeting.

Contentment, stillness, and being even-keeled are much better goals to aim for mentally.

The happiest, most well adjusted kids come from families with loving parents that have strict rules for the household.

This one really set off the confirmation bias in me... I feel really blessed we have 2 well adjusted middle school kids who do great in school, are very respectful and well mannered, and we barely even need to parent them.

But for years, we were very strict with them. Bedtimes, family rules, how we do things, etc. The in-laws and lots of friends thought we were totalitarian.

In reality, we just had high standards. And it's really paying off right now. I found it really interesting that strict rules equals happy kids. Makes sense, though, as kids need to know what their boundaries are.

Constantly surveying school-age kids about their mental health causes more issues than it solves.

Mental health resources is big money. Districts need to validate all the resources allocated towards mental health, and they often do that via surveys.

Asking kids non-stop questions like:

- Have you thought about self harm?
- Have you thought about suicide?
- Have you been so anxious you can't get out of bed?

Etc, etc puts into their heads the idea that themselves, or many of their peers are broken and cannot function properly in the real world.

It normalizes situations that would be incredibly rare at any other time in history.

There's a lot of other takeaways, too, but I'll stop there.

It's a fantastic book. Go pick it up and read it. This isn't an affiliate thing or a promotion thing at all. I just really enjoyed it, and it will further shape the way I parent moving forward.