☕️ 🇺🇸Do or do not, there is no try. You grind lesser, you shine lesser. Most retweets are not an endorsement, more like a catalog for me to easily find later.
@TheGenCatton All gun manufacturers and ammo companies need to stop selling any and all goods to any state run government entity located in a state that enacts such anti-2A legislature.
If the people can’t have access, neither should the government.
#StandTogether
20 rules for young men:
1. Never date a friend’s ex
2. It’s ok to go to the movies by yourself
3. Hygiene is more important than you think
4. Know the different between love and lust
5. Stay informed on what’s going on. Don’t be a sheep
6. Have a sense of humor but don’t joke about your dreams and goals
7. Study the types of people who upset you and why
8. Stand up to bullies. You’ll only have to do it once.
9. Don’t bully people weaker than you
10. Learn how to tell stories
11. Don’t complain. 80% of people don’t care about your problems and 20% are glad you have them
12. Be impressed by the things that matter
13. When coming across a successful person, talk less, ask more.
14. Leave a lasting impression after people meet you
15. Don’t feel guilty for being too ambitious
16. Be mentally and emotionally ready to lose loved ones at some point of your life.
17. Always have some cash with you
18. Regardless of what you get paid per hour, give your best.
19. Avoid porn at all cost.
20. You never marry a girl, you marry her entire family.
The amount of respect you command is a direct byproduct of how high functioning you are, for high stress tolerance commands respect where low stress tolerance undermines it.
In simple terms: if you can outwardly handle stress with greater composure than others, you will naturally command more respect than they do. Respect thus accrues not as a conscious decision, but as an instinctive response to your conduct.
People will subconsciously evaluate your competence, placing you into one of two categories: asset or liability. If you are consistently steady under pressure and difficult to unsettle, you are deemed an operational asset, but if you collapse emotionally, offend easily, or routinely punish others for telling hard or sensitive truths, you will flag as a liability.
Respect and authority flows to those who are deemed assets. Would you want a leader with poor stress tolerance who is prone to outbursts, collapse or destabilisation? Of course not. That would unsettle you. You would prefer someone who remains poised under pressure, because you would feel safer with someone with an exceptional capacity to metabolise stress even beyond what is objectively healthy or humane. Leadership as such gravitates to those who are able to bear more than their fair share of stress, not to those who impose their emotional turbulence on to others the very moment they are subjected to it.
You seek someone unnaturally strong, who is capable of carrying not just their own burdens, but likewise yours. But you are neither unique or alone in holding that preference, for it is the underlying mechanism which determines how people intuitively designate leaders. To desire authority over others whilst being a source of emotional turbulence is thus not just naive, but incredibly immature. Authority necessarily then gravitates to those who serve the most stabilising function, because when it is given to the incapable, it results in dysfunction and tyranny.
High functioning individuals inspire trust, because they manage destabilising, urgent, or sensitive information without unravelling. Low functioning individuals erode trust, because they amplify chaos, crumble under pressure, and turn urgent or sensitive matters into liabilities, thereby imposing burdens which others are forced to carry in their place.
This is why if you want a relationship built on full and clear mutual transparency, you must be able to bear the costs of what you ask for. Both sides must be capable of absorbing shocks, disappointments, conflicts, and unpleasant truths without collapsing into hysteria or destructive anarchy. Respect simply is not owed, but earned. You are not entitled to what you have not proven you can endure, for it is the weight you are unable to carry that will define the limits of what others can trust you with.
Outside of just memes in my little comedy routines that I drop, here's some down-and-dirty fitness advice from someone like myself who's never really been athletic.
• Lift 4 days per week
• Upper / Lower / Rest / Upper / Lower
• Do a few minutes of core every workout (sit-ups, planks, leg raises)
Upper Body:
Bench Press
Overhead Press
Barbell Row
Pull-Ups
Dumbbell Stuff
Lower Body:
Squat
Deadlift
Romanian Deadlift
Lunges
Prioritize compound lifts. These exercises train multiple muscle groups at once and should be the foundation of your program.
You don’t need to avoid isolation exercises (machines); use them sparingly to develop usually glam muscles like arms. Just prioritize compounds.
If you’re eating and recovering properly, you should be able to add 2.5-5 lbs to the bar almost every week for quite a while.
I can’t tell you how boring it is. That’s really the hard part. Adopting a personality and using that to lift weights is helpful. You can be a Space Marine, Barbarian Berserker, Savior of Europe, Special Forces adjacent lifter etc.
Just never lose sight of your goal. The ability to wear an earth colored T-shirt that’s two sizes too small while tweeting vaguely about violence and calling everyone else pussies.