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Meet Ousmane Sonko. He is a firebrand, anti-establishment, pan-Africanist politician, and the absolute darling of Senegal’s youth. Everyone wanted him to be…
I can tell a p0rn and masturbation addict when I see one.
They always have the same visible characteristics:
1.He has a “dead” look in his eyes,
the eyes look empty and lifeless, like life has been sucked out of him.
Mencius said, "When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent." (Mn. 6B.15)
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.
pay solid attention;
an average millionaire is 40 not 23
an average billionaire is 55 not 35
the average age to buy a house is 35 not 25
most men hit their peak confidence at 32 not in their 20s
it takes the average person 66 days to build a habit not 7
the average ceo is 57 not 30
most people meet their life partner after 27 not 18
the average successful business takes 5-7 years not 6 months
most people don’t know what they want until they’re 30 not at graduation
stop letting social media brainwash you. you are not behind, you’re on your own track. live it ❤️
10 Cars that have already been discontnued (Not longer in prodcution)
1. Toyota Wish
2. Mazda Premacy
3. Toyota Premio
4. Toyota Ractis
5. Mitsubishi Galant Fortis
6. Honda Stream
7. Toyota Belta
8. Toyota Allion
9. Toyota Mark X
10. Toyota Rush
As a man, always remember that a woman is not capable of loving you.
This is how LOVE flows in a family set up. God loves man, man loves woman and woman loves children.
Man humbles himself before God and gets his daily bread; woman humbles herself before man and gets provision; and children humble themselves before their mother, and she shall make them the best meal.
The love of women is inherently selfish and self-serving, even when they act friendly. The moment her feelings change, it doesn't matter how many sacrifices you've made.
If you think a woman loves you, you are mistaken. She loves what you provide and offer. If someone else offers a better price, it is just a matter of time.
Women are loyal to their own emotions and feelings, and you must always remember that when handed the right ammunition, you will get a “headshot” the moment she wishes so.
You can go to great lengths for a woman, but the moment you forget to say “Happy Birthday” and some simp out there tells her, the simp becomes Romeo, and she brings the battlefield home.
So, be loyal to your vision and mission in life. The rest must fit within that.
For those who read the Bible, even Jesus himself NEVER commanded wives to LOVE their husbands. Instead:
- Wives are asked to submit to their husbands as to the Lord, recognizing the husband as the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church.
- The text instructs wives to submit to their husbands in all things, just as the church submits to Christ.
- Wives are commanded to respect their husbands, which is often interpreted as honoring, valuing, and highly regarding them.
On the other hand:
- Husbands are commanded to love their wives as Christ loved the church, which included giving his life for her.
- Husbands are to nourish and cherish their wives, caring for them as they do their own bodies.
- Husbands are called to be the head of the home.
This was no accident. Women are manipulative, and their hypergamous nature will humble you if you don't learn.
So, keep that frame intact, or else, she will run over you.
Brother, with all due respect, you work for CNN. Your opinion is the least useful thing in the world - because it's not yours. Whatever Warner Media wants you to think is exactly what you will think because your paycheck depends on it.
Dance for your coins but please do so with sense.
Jump squats, pistol squats, Bulgarian split squats, Sprinting, Push-ups, Dips, Pull-ups and some kind of rowing exercises with dumbbells, and you are jacked than 90% of the gym bros.
You drink 8 glasses of water for clear skin and the only thing that got clearer is your pee. Your body already had enough water and just flushed the extra.
Your kidneys filter about 47 gallons of fluid a day. Around 350 water bottles worth. But only about half a gallon actually leaves as pee. The rest, 99% of it, goes right back into your blood. When you chug water past what your body needs, your kidneys don't reroute it to your face. They dump it. Clear pee is your kidneys saying "we're good, lose it."
A 2018 review from Charité University in Berlin looked at every published study on drinking water and skin. They found 216 papers. Only 6 had strong enough methods to count as real evidence. The conclusion: no solid proof that drinking more water improves your skin if you're already getting a normal amount.
One study that did find something (49 women in Portugal, 30 days, 2 extra liters daily) showed better skin moisture. But the gains came almost entirely from women who were barely drinking any water before the study started. If you were already drinking normally, the difference was tiny. Your body has a priority list for water: brain first, then heart, then kidneys. Skin gets whatever is left.
Researchers in Korea tested this head-to-head in 2024. One group drank extra water. The other just applied moisturizer. Moisturizer won. Skin dries out because moisture leaks outward through the surface. A $6 cream that seals that surface does more than 10 glasses of water your kidneys will flush by tonight.
I think the whole "water for skin" thing is a distraction from what the science says actually works. A trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that cutting sugar and processed carbs reduced acne. High-sugar diets raise your breakout risk by 20 to 30%. Skim milk is tied to acne too because it spikes a hormone that tells your oil glands to pump out more of the oily stuff that clogs pores.
The stuff your skin actually wants: fatty fish like salmon, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin C, and sunscreen. Not glass number eight. Your skin would rather you ate salmon and wore sunscreen.
The biggest lesson in life, which you only realize after experiencing it many times, is this: NEVER TRY TO SAVE ANYONE. Never. They are where they are for a reason, they suffer from their own philosophy, their own ego. You will ruin your life trying to save theirs, and it will bear no fruit but your own degradation.
how to unrot your brain:
- don't use your phone for 2 hours every AM and 2 hours before bed
- read 20 pages a day (like 10,000 steps for your brain)
- leave home without your phone
- delete social media from your phone and only use it on your computer
- walk 10,000 steps with no phone
- ground barefoot
- meditate for 10 mins a day (silence grows new brain cells)
- get sunlight
- digital fast one day a week
- humming for your vagus nerve
- play and have a silly goose time
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away