lift ten times your weight. voraciously consume sugary liquids. kill anyone who doesnt smell like you. ant mode.

What’s happening in France is a wake-up call to the entire world. 🌍 The cost of living keeps rising while everyday people struggle to survive. People are tired of working hard just to barely get by. Governments need to start listening to the people before frustration turns into chaos. 💯🙏🏽

RT @steve2bacon: time to learn about what these companies actually do

Just keep pivoting till you find where you want to be. many people rush life. They throw themselves into a specific box, then stay there. Motion is the privilege that the living have. Be many things at the same time. Or be nothing, for a time. Simmer in life, marinate, grow.

Newbies and inexperienced traders/investors are so fixated on predictions that they have no idea what to do when the 50% of cases where they're wrong shows up.

“But you said it was going to do #A and it didn’t.”

Well yeah. I also said it could do #B, and sometimes #C. Didn’t you plan or position for those outcomes too?

Bitcoin recently is a good example. It didn’t follow through on my preferred path, which is just the one I thought was more likely. But so what? I still bought back a good amount at $64k after going 100% cash at $94k (avg), because guess what, option #B possibility was gaining traction.

That’s the point. It’s not about the prediction. Your social clout does not build your portfolio.

Sadly, most inexperienced players can’t even make money when their prediction comes true because they’re so consumed with being right that they never properly think about positioning, risk, or what they’ll do next.

“Oh, so you’re just covering every base. Could go up, could go down.”

No shit. That’s exactly the point.

I don’t want to be surprised. I want to be positioned to get the best possible outcome across all viable scenarios.

Stop becoming so attached to one idea that you get trapped inside it. Think and trade in possibilities, be early enough and push harder when an outcome becomes clear.

Yes, you’ll give up some upside to maintain that flexibility. That’s the cost. But you’ll still participate when you’re right and you’ll be protected when the market chooses one of the other paths.

The goal isn’t to predict but be prepared to capture.

Dressing as Chris Hansen for Halloween and showing up to people’s houses while they’re giving out candy to children and asking them “you see how this looks, right?”

you ok, babe? you’ve barely touched your Mr. Beast’s Feastables Liquid Death Peanut Butter Cup Soda-Flavored Sparkling Water

i don't think nearly anyone, myself included, has truly internalized there'll soon be a machine better than us in every single intellectual & physical capacity
deep down we all share a feeling that our 'entrepreneurship' or 'taste' or... is special & safe. it isn't. it's over

Just reinstall WoW for a little bit.

Only through the holidays, logging on to run dailies and LFG and try out the new raids.

It will be nostalgic, not depressing. You won’t emerge in January feeling like you lost years of your life to a gnome warlock.

Pad See Ew mogs Pad Thai but they don’t want you to know that

If you want to succeed in life, you need to learn to think and act independently of the good opinion of others.
No one cares about your future as much as you do. No one is coming to make you successful. No one is going to make you rich. That’s your responsibility.
You have to make decisions based on your own passions, your own dreams, your own goals, and your own tolerance for risk—not based on what someone else thinks you should do.
And yes, that includes your parents, your kids, your spouse, your friends—and society.
Listen to advice. Consider opinions. Learn from people you respect. But ultimately, you have to live your life—not the life other people have chosen for you.
If you want uncommon results, you have to be willing to make decisions that other people may not understand, approve of, or agree with.
Your life. Your decisions. Your consequences. Your future.

Animals live in the actual world. Humans live in a conceptual overlay, a dream we mistake for reality. We are blind drunk on symbols and stories, reacting to our own interpretations, not to what is actually happening.

Tops and bottoms are arbitrary reference points with little relevance to sound strategies. Most money is made in between. You don’t have to care about them at all. You shouldn’t.

You can be wrong about the low and still make money, or nail it and still lose by sizing badly, exiting early, etc. There’s so much levels to this. The best trade of your year will likely have a mediocre entry and the best call of your year might be one you never sized into.

It’s a separate game with a separate, public scoreboard. So people naturally drift toward the one that gives feedback without noticing they switched games.

ORCL is saas on semis days and semis on saas days

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told my 4 year old he can’t have ice cream cake after dinner if he doesn’t EAT his dinner and he came up to me immediately and said “can you give me a hug so I don’t cry?” and when I bent down for a hug he whispered “don’t ever say that to me ever again”

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.

He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.

He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences tire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.

He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.

He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.

Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.

Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.

He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.

He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.

The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.

Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.

But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.

Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

Guy who announces his exit from a position no one knew he was in