At times, the joy that life attacks me with is unbearable and leads to gasping hysterical laughter. I find myself completely out of control and wonder how could life could surprise me again and again and again, so completely. How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin.
Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting. Momentum is magic. It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.
realising viscerally existentially wholeheartedly that continuously checking your phone will disrupt your capacity to deep-work and take anything seriously and that will rob you of your essence as a human being and keep you a shell of what you could’ve turned out to be.
I had nothing to lose so I tried everything.
Fixed my sleep, the cold showers, cut out the caffeine and the alcohol and the sugar and the gluten, tried magnesium, the taurine, the inositol.
Did the meditations, the shadow work, the hypnosis, stood in the mirror and told myself the harsh truth.
Quit social media. Reorganised my phone, my house, my head. Affirmations. Positive thinking.
Travelled, wrote, read, helped others, transmuted the pain into whatever creativity I could.
Fought in a ring, hired psychologists, left my secure job.
None of it cured me.
All of it did.
Somewhere in the middle I realised I had become someone who would do all of this for himself.
That was the cure.
This tweet is evergreen; if you find a way to quietly chuckle at what usually bothers you, you can just glide through life towards what you love + want, instead of being constantly yanked off of your emotional axis, always expending excess energy just getting back to baseline.
You will always feel much better living leaner.
Relative strength, agility, mobility, speed, endurance and mastery over the body and mind is the ideal state of the human being.
I cannot imagine a life without ever experiencing that.
Everything else is excess.
You don't need to eat as much as you think you do.
You don't need to consume so much information.
You don't need to cope about your vices.
You don't need to try the latest supplement getting hyped - most of these are excesses that you consume to counteract the excess you're already taking in.
In body composition, in environment, in mind, and with the things you put into your body:
Live leaner, move with elegance, grace, and ease.
Others will even pressure YOU to take things you don't need.
The only thing you need is less.
it terrifies me how many talented people are contributing to a future they wouldn't want to live in. building something addictive. exploitative. destructive. something they'll ban their own kids from using. and for what? a paycheck? surely there's a better way to use your gifts?
An underrated life lesson: Your energy creates your reality. Give your energy to stress, complaints, and negative people, they will grow. Give your energy to ambitions, gratitude, and positive people, they will grow. Your energy is your destiny. Choose wisely.
If a man lives long enough, he forgives himself and everyone else. If time doesn’t embitter you, it softens you. Life clarifies eventually that the ways in which we hurt others are mostly not out of malice, but out of confusion, fear and ignorance. Out of simply being human.
Did you know that u can just turn up the pleasure of being alive arbitrarily, without external cause? You don't even need to "know how" to do it, you can just pretend that you already know and it works
Is there any reason to not just leave it dialed up?