Sons of Wrestling

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A brazilian fan of the greatest sport of mankind.

[Sons of Wrestling @sonsofMMA]

@fluffyrocket27 I've seen Akgul and Geno dominate the field since 2014, watching them live and close, so I'm not giving predictions not knowing their abilities, saying that, I think Gable has what it takes to beat them or at least give them a tough match.

[Take Testosterone @maxyourtest]

Until death, all defeat is psychological

[chris wojcik @chrismwojcik]

I love Jiu-Jitsu.

BUT

If I were in my late 30s or early 40s and trying to get into a sport for "fun, health, and fitness"...

I almost certainly would NOT start wrestling and strangling people as often as possible.

BJJ hobbyists are a different breed 😅

[robert @robertxyo]

ronaldinho corria FLUTUANDO, surreal isso

[Vox Virtutis @VoxVirtutis]

Death will come for you on an ordinary day, in the middle of your unfinished plans, and the world will continue on without you.

So live a little.

[Crafty @CraftOfMastery]

The cowboy embodies horizontal mastery:

adaptability, versatility, and the ability to survive across many domains. He could rope, ride, shoot, track, navigate, take care of animals, read weather and the terrain. His strength is range. He is the man who goes wide.

The samurai embodies vertical mastery:

depth, precision, and total refinement within a single path. He dedicates himself to one craft for years, polishing the same fundamentals until they become second nature. His strength is focus. He is the man who goes deep.

Be both.

[TIM | @timpjohansson]

the goal isn’t cbum.

it’s brad pitt in troy.

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

Para todos os homens que sobreviveram ao fundo do poço.

Qual seria o melhor conselho que vocês dariam a um homem que está pensando em desistir agora?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

The Japanese Samurai had a rule: never make a decision before you can answer this one question.

In feudal Japan, elite samurai were trained never to act until they could honestly answer one question their masters repeated for decades: "If I die tomorrow, does this choice still matter?"

It wasn't philosophy. It was a mental filter designed to cut through fear, ego, and short-term emotion in seconds.

Most modern decisions are made under invisible pressure: deadlines, social approval, FOMO. The result is a life built on reactions instead of clarity.

When you start applying the samurai question daily, something shifts. Small irritations lose power. Big risks become obvious. You stop chasing things that won't matter next year.

The samurai understood that true strength isn't speed. It's the ability to see clearly when everyone else is rushing.

[Burak @SirBuraksson]

Dopamin ve seratonin paramparça oluyor. Kortizol çok hızlı artış gösteriyor. Vücut bir anda sizin öleceğinizi hissedip adrenalin salgılatıyor. Yani bir anlamda gerçekten ölüyorsunuz. O yüzden bu süreçte profesyonel destek alarak aslında ölmediğinize ikna olmanız çok önemli

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

Eu estou 100% convencido de que a chave para a grandeza é simplesmente ter um nível delirante de crença em você mesmo.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your body replaces 98% of its atoms every year. Within five years, every single one is swapped out. The you from 2021 is physically gone. Not "mostly gone." Gone. The atoms that used to be your face are now part of the air, the ocean, somebody else's lunch.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved this in 1953. Your skin right now is about a month old. Your liver, six weeks. Your stomach lining regrows every five days. Your skeleton is completely different from ten years ago. A few atoms do stick around for life, buried in some brain cells, in parts of your heart, and in your tooth enamel. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked them using leftover radiation from 1950s nuclear bomb tests. The oldest surviving piece of "you" lives in your brain, your heart, and your teeth.

Your brain is also erasing you. On purpose. A neuroscientist named Ron Davis at Scripps Research found that the brain has cells that release dopamine, the same chemical you feel after a good meal or a win, and use it to dissolve memories. When his team shut these cells off in test animals, they remembered twice as much. The chemical behind your best feelings is the same one shredding your past, and it never stops running.

Ebbinghaus proved this back in 1885. You lose about half of everything you learn within one hour. A 2020 study from Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute had people live through a real experience and then checked how much they kept. At best, about a quarter. 75% of the details of your own life are being actively wiped by the organ that is supposed to be keeping track of it all.

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Squeeze all of it into one calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1st, and humans show up at 11:52 PM on New Year's Eve. Your whole life, every birthday and breakup and boring Tuesday, lasts 0.17 seconds on that calendar. Not even long enough to blink.

Stars will keep burning for about a hundred trillion more years, then the fuel runs out and the lights go off everywhere. The last things left will be black holes, places where gravity is so strong not even light can escape. Even those slowly leak away over a number of years so large you would need a hundred zeros to write it. After the last one is gone, nothing is left. No light, no warmth, nothing bumping into anything else, ever again. The universe reaches total stillness and stays there. Forever.

Brian Cox once described the window where life can even exist as one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total run time. You are in that window right now. Built from borrowed atoms, running on a brain shredding its own records, here for a fifth of a second on a cosmic calendar that ends in permanent silence. Anyway, hope your Tuesday is going alright.

[planefag @planefag]

It is 1919. Tanks are declared obsolete due to anti-tank rifles.

It is 1936. Tanks are declared obsolete due to rapid improvements in anti-tank gun technology.

It is 1949. Tanks are declared obsolete due to shaped-charge anti-tank weapons.

It is 1953. Tanks are declared obsolete due to tactical nuclear weapons.

It is 1973. Tanks are declared obsolete due to anti-tank guided missiles.

It is 2006. Tanks are declared obsolete due to IEDs and 5th-generation warfare.

It is 2024. Tanks are declared obsolete due to FPV drones.

[To Be Continued]

[Sons of Wrestling @sonsofMMA]

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[Sons of Wrestling @sonsofMMA]

@Xavianmel Hi

[goma @soigomaa]

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

My man said something to me that really stuck.

He told me, “I’m not here to control you. I’m not your dad, I’m your partner. You’re free to make your own choices. Just understand that every choice has consequences. If you choose something that damages what we’ve built, that’s on you.”

He said, “I’ll always tell you when something hurts me or crosses a boundary, because that’s what healthy communication looks like. But if you keep stepping over the line after I’ve shown you where it is, then you were never really protecting us to begin with.”
And honestly, that’s what accountability in a relationship sounds like.

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

Link: https://t.co/sKfb19136Q

[Save A Man @Save_A_Man]

How to increase your aura as a man,

1. Smile less. A calm, closed mouth smile carries more authority than forced friendliness.

2. Announce nothing. People respect outcomes, not intentions.

3. Read real books in public. It silently intimidates people who scroll.

4. Nod instead of agreeing. Approval should feel earned, not automatic.

5. Stop narrating your life. Mystery beats oversharing every time.

6. Be hard to reach. Access is value.

7. Shake hands like you mean it. Weak grips signal weak presence.

8. Stop checking your phone during conversations; it signals you value your notifications more than them.

9. Always be punctual; wasting another person's time is a subtle form of arrogance.

10. Return what you borrowed in better condition; it shows respect for both the item and the owner.

11. Listen to understand, not to reply; people instantly recognize when you're just waiting to talk.

12.Walk slow.

13. Never resist eye contact

14. Don't shake your legs.

15. Laugh less.

16. Show gratitude.

17. Stand up for a handshake.

18. Keep your chin still when you talk.

19. Keep your shoulders back at all times.

Do this and watch your life change completely