How to tell if you've found your "thing"
- You instantly absorb anything you read on the subject
- You stay up late working on it (without effort)
- You can perform better on it at 60% than others at 100%
- It doesn't drain you, but rather gives you energy
- You end up doing it without being prompted
Play to you, work to others. Don't waste your time dedicating yourself to something you're bad at. Work hard at games you're uniquely suited to win. You can and should take every unfair advantage you have access to
I forgot how much I missed the human element in tennis. Having real live line umps instead of robots calling the shots is sheer heaven. There is drama. There is tension. There is negotiation. Thanks @rolandgarros for keeping it real.
#Monfils#Gaston#TNT#RolandGarros
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PROGESTERONE - deletes anxiety and cortisol, makes you more masculine
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Lloyds has launched a new first-time buyer mortgage needing just a £5,000 deposit 🏡
Key details:
- Up to 98% mortgage (borrow up to £295k)
- Max property price: £300k
- 5-year fixed rate at 5.89%
- No product fees
- Max borrowing: 4.5x salary
- Available to employed + self-employed
But there’s a catch:
- No gifts (“Bank of Mum & Dad” banned)
- No new builds
- No shared ownership
- Strict affordability + credit checks apply
Example:
£300k house = £5k deposit + £295k mortgage.
On the example of a £300,000 home with a £5,000 deposit:
Mortgage = £295,000
Rate = 5.89% fixed for 5 years
Assuming a 40-year term (the max allowed)
Estimated monthly repayment = ~£1,600/month.
If the mortgage term was shorter:
35 years = ~£1,740/month
30 years = ~£1,920/month
That’s before bills, insurance, council tax and maintenance costs.
Lloyds says it’s aimed at renters who can afford monthly payments but can’t save huge deposits. Basically, the majority of Millennials and GenZ!
What does all fat people food have in common? Its all fat and carbs. Ice cream, french fries, pizza, cookies, cake, potato chips. All fats and carbs.
Combining fats and carbs makes your reward circuit go haywire. Both fat and carbs trigger dopamine release in distinct circuits. Your scarcity-coded hardwiring thinks you just hit the nutrition jackpot and its signals for you to eat as much as humanly possible. (Natural carb-fat combinations are extraordinarily rare. Pretty much just milk).
This is why every restaurant, every box on grocery store shelves, and every guilty pleasure you can think of is fat and carbs. It shortcircuits your brain into ravenous consumption. People literally get addicted to it.
This is a metabolic shitshow. Insulin gets released to handle the carbs, but fat intake means the fat gets stored efficiently into adipose tissue (insulin is your fat storage hormone).
The best thing you can do to start optimizing metabolism and body composition is to cut out high fat/high carb mega meals
Treat articulation as a weapon and train it as any professional would. Read extensively. Not just for ideas but for absorbing vocabulary, pacing and style. Express yourself prolifically. Take every opportunity to flex your communication muscles.
We are becoming borderline illiterate as a society. Now is the time to separate yourself from the herd.
The Greek fisherman is 90+ years old.
He wakes before sunrise, takes his boat out onto open water daily, eats the freshest seafood and shellfish, present in every moment, has a strong feeling of belonging, masters his craft every day, drinks local wine at lunch with men he's known for 70+ years, laughs loudly, has loud debates at dinner, is part of a genuine community, and truly feels alive every moment he lives.
This is what true euphoric living and waking up everyday feeling like you're in heaven looks like when you truly have everything done correctly - namely light, purpose, movement, real nutrition, family, mindset and social environment.
The meaning of life is clearly understood, and he's able to live it out because of his environment and lifestyle - the internal biology, hormones and metabolism which give him the life force, energy and vitality to carry out his purpose.
A big part of their vital, healthy living comes from their diet.
This is what the Mediterranean diet actually was before researchers such as Ancel keys stripped it to a mainly plant based diet and ultimately influenced the modern food pyramid that now demonises saturated fat.
- Raw and aged cheeses - fat soluble vitamins in natural ratios, CLA, bioavailable calcium for optimal
calcium:phosphorus ratio that keeps stress hormones and parathyroid hormone low
- Whole fish and raw shellfish - zinc, iodine, selenium, DHA for thyroid output and androgen hormone synthesis
- Offal in every traditional cuisine - for example liver in Venetian fegato alla veneziana, bone marrow in Milanese ossobuco, kidneys in many traditional French
bistro dishes.
- Collagenous slow-cooked broths - glycine balancing the methionine load from muscle meat
- Local Wine with food in the sun, not alone at night in front of a screen
- fresh fruits - supporting clean glucose oxidation, vitamin C regenerating glutathione and cofactoring collagen synthesis. Eaten in the sun with your people.
- naturally fermented bread
Then there is the modern approach to longevity.
Someone like Brian Johnson will probably get outlived by the Mediterranean fisherman. Has subpar bloodwork. Is vegan because of the "science" but taking 100 supplement pills for breakfast. Stresses about a single ray of sunshine touching his body, and stresses about a single ounce of saturated fat entering his system, which will funnily enough cause more damage to his body than what he thinks the damage of saturated fat will do.
More MediterraneanMaxxing in 2026.
Extremely common for people to hit ~25 years old and feel time flying by…
If only they understood;
You can slow it down.
Remember how summers felt like a lifetime when you were a kid?
Time isn’t actually moving quicker now than it was then…
You’re just not present anymore.
Reading is the antidote to brainrot. The cognition curve is flattening faster than ever, books uniquely fight against this. Better vocabulary, better imagination, better thinking. Train your brain like you train your body. Books are weights for the mind.
Always saw the biggest guy at my college gym eating sour patch kids inbetween his sets and my underdeveloped brain could not comprehend why a man so jacked would eat something so taboo (this was peak low-carb era).
But now I understand. Fast carbs (glucose, dextrose, sucrose) enter your bloodstream immediately. Working muscles sucks that glucose out of your blood via GLUT4 transclocation, independent of insulin. You bypass the usual metabolic bottlenecks and feed your engines mid-burn.
High intensity training is heavily dependent on glycogen and glycolosis. Burn through your glycogen stores and your performance suffers. Less explosiveness, no pump, more cortisol.
Keeping your muscles fueled mid-workout gives you everything you want and need. Glucose has an osmotic effect. It pulls water into muscle cells and hydrates you at an intracellular level (very anabolic btw). You get better bloodflow, bigger/fuller muscles, better contraction. You can sustain peak output for the entirety of your workout.
Its not just your muscles that are being fueled either. Your brain is a glucose hog. Low blood sugar during long sessions is the leading cause of fatigue and poor motor output. Hence why glucose microdosing is beneficial for cognitive tasks as well (especially hybrid psycho/physiological tasks like martial arts, sports etc.)
Better yet, exogenous glucose blunds cortisol-induced tissue breakdown. Extremely anti-catabolic.
You perform better, you feel better, you recover better, and you leave your workout less fried than you otherwise would.
All while giving you a perfect excuse to get your sugar fix in guilt free.
Best way to make mega wealth in the next two years is copy any non-AI corporate product (Tinder, Dropbox, MyFitnessPal) and make an AI version of it. Sounds too simple to be true, but most of the billion dollar ideas were obvious in hindsight.