joshua

you try and mask your pain in the most postmodern way

[CASSIUS @CassiusAnalyse]

Le jour où vous cessez d'attendre que le monde soit juste et où vous commencez à raisonner en fonction des vraies incitations des gens, quelque chose change en vous. Vous cessez d'être choqué par les trahisons. Vous les voyez venir. Et au lieu de réagir dans la douleur, vous faites des mouvements calmes, anticipés, qui vous protègent avant même que le coup ne parte.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

You can measure a man’s seriousness by what he protects when life gets uncomfortable. The unserious protect mood, comfort, and image. The serious protect standards, time, health, and long-term position. Everyone claims ambition until discipline starts asking for sacrifices.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never underestimate the danger of people who need to feel morally superior. They can justify cruelty as correction, betrayal as honesty, and envy as concern. Once a person believes their ego is virtue, they become capable of harming you while feeling righteous about it.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

People who have access to you have no idea how unreachable you are to everyone else, until they become everyone else.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

"Bless the one who abandons you, because they return you to yourself."

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Skill of Life @skill_of_life]

Beware of people who gather others to damage your reputation and isolate you, especially in the workplace. They are everywhere. Always pay attention to those who spread rumors, they are the ones. Cut them off instantly, and if you can, stop collaborating with them.

[Skill of Life @skill_of_life]

Some people only show up when they smell benefit. If they disappear when you struggle, they're not allies. Keep your circle tight and cut out those who only chase convenience.

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

My therapist once told me: "The guilt you feel for setting boundaries is a sign of how deeply you were trained to abandon yourself."
She was right.
That guilt isn't yours. It's left over from someone who punished you for having needs.

[joshua @thejoshblanco]

carve our names into the carseat leather

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Study what makes you anxious. The topic you avoid. The person who makes you water yourself down. The question that feels insulting. The conversation you keep postponing. The silence you can't sit with. Pay attention. Every trigger points to something unfinished. An old wound. An insecurity. A belief you're still protecting. Sit with it. Study it. What triggers you reveals the parts that quietly control your life. Remember that.

[Mason Hughes @msnrhu]

Kasparov on greatness.
Banger.

[T_G @T_Gofficial01]

Learn from experiences. Don’t hate yourself for past mistakes and imperfections. Try to be better. Never resent yourself for previous errors. Literally everyone has flaws, deficiencies and weaknesses. Nobody is perfect in all sense. So, steady your anxiety and simply be fixated on your life’s journey with faith and self belief.

[33 Strategies of War @33StrategiesBot]

You must take control over people’s perceptions of you by playing with your appearances, mystifying and misleading them.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory shows that burning bridges is a viable strategy. When you intentionally remove your own options, your threats become credible. The opponent knows you cannot back down, so they must now calculate differently. This is what a game theorist calls a commitment device. This strategy is exceptionally high-risk, but it can change the entire game by forcing your opponent to readjust.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

[joshua @thejoshblanco]

take me out to dinner, you know you can take me anywhere.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never accept pressure without authority. If people expect you to carry the consequence but deny you the right to shape the decision, they are not honoring your responsibility, they are renting your obedience. Responsibility without control is just exploitation.

[CASSIUS @CassiusAnalyse]

Dans les jeux de pouvoir, la transparence totale est une vulnérabilité. Celui qui montre tout donne à tous les autres la carte exacte pour le contrer.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Confidence and Arrogance are by-product of competence:

If you set an apex value (one uncompromising goal), sacrifice everything in pursuit of it, give yourself enough evidence to through action - You will start to believe in yourself again.

Going through his ritualistically will make you very competent, and thereby arrogant or confident.

[T_G @T_Gofficial01]

Live like a king. Don’t let the pains and dramas get to you. Just know you’ll definitely make it through. Just have the certainty you’ll triumph and all this will be experiences that inculcated wisdom into your conscious and subconscious mind. Hold your head in this depressive state and uphold the envisioning you’ve set for yourself. Do something daily that propel you forward. Simply have the mindset of taking accelerating steps.