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10 years ago I was pissing in jars because I was too afraid to leave my room. Now I emcee events, run workshops, and help people reclaim their sovereignty. The distance between those two versions of me wasn't discipline. It wasn't luck. It was a complete rewrite of who I believed I was. I talk about how that actually happens — identity, attention, addiction, freedom. The real mechanics, from someone who lived the whole arc. If that resonates, follow along. And if you just want to talk — I'm always up for a conversation with an interesting person. My DMs are open. Reach out.

@itsOliviaShu I gotta say... I've heard many things in my life. This aint one of them.🤣

Normalize not making men feel bad for liking petite Asian women.

@kaylenmarissaa Having gone through my own issues I agree.

Human experiences like breakups don't require therapy. People are making their issues their entire identity, worshipping them with time and money. This obsession dictates their lives, and it's a ridiculous point for humanity to reach. #MentalHealth #SelfImprovement

@alzJuliex Come climb trees instead🦧🐒😉

Anyone volunteering to be my gym buddy? 🤍

@Jainadave_ I used to be deep into that stuff. But No More🙌

Porn is cancer for a man's brain.

@Musclemanhh I'm screwed🏋‍♂️

Does squatting actually reduces the size of dick as it being said ? Pls tell me.

@thejaybaybay Those hammies be going Ham🙌

Hammy’s go crazy

@chicfryrice I thought I was the only one😅🤣

The word “founder” gives me the ick. Less annoying words: - Owner - CEO - Managing Partner - I started a business - I’m not a pretentious nerd

@herbarbelldiary Zercher squats are the bomb🙌

Zercher squats kill me. 3x3 at 85% of 1 rm.

@angel_0f_deathx 🤓 Just 2 nerds over here...

do you like my glasses?

@ashebytes Amen 🙏

all you can do...all you can really do.. is create more than you consume

@sumedha2199 Great stuff. Keep going. If you need any tips. Let me know.

the day I get a clean unassisted pull up, it’s genuinely over for y’all.

@kmaparker @Jiggy_Bantty

@Jiggy_Bantty Weight is respectable but at some point you're going to need to train your grip, so I suggest losing the gloves even if you have to reload temporarily.

Weighing 80kg and can only lift 90kg on bench. Is it okay or needs improvement?

@madsf88 Connecting to people

answering “what do you do?” with a job title is boring. i wanna know what you do when no one’s paying you

@jadexmiura Yes💪

Bulking girls or cutting girls... be honest

I quit pornography by giving myself permission to watch as much as I wanted. I know how that sounds. Stay with me. For years I did what everyone said. Streaks. Rules. Download the blockers, delete the apps, tell a friend for accountability, don't look at anything that might trigger you. I white-knuckled my way to 14 days once. 21 another time. Relapsed every time. The NoFap community told me this was a willpower problem. That I needed more structure, more commitment, harder mode. I believed them. I tried harder. Still failed. It took me a long time to see what was actually happening. Every time I resisted, I was feeding the thing I was resisting. I was treating arousal like a fire alarm — something to be silenced immediately, suppressed, channeled into push-ups or cold showers before it got out of hand. The urgency around it kept growing. The charge kept building. The eventual release kept getting more compulsive. This is what repression does. It doesn't dissolve energy. It pressurizes it. NoFap, for all its good intentions, is just a new and improved version of sexual repression. You're not healing your relationship with your sexuality. You're trading one compulsion for another — the compulsion to use, replaced by the compulsion to abstain. Different behavior. Same unconscious driver. What actually needed to change wasn't the behavior. It was the relationship to the arousal itself. I started to notice something. When I felt aroused and immediately moved to suppress it — do something, anything, to make it stop — I wasn't the one making that choice. The subconscious program was. The reflex was. I was just along for the ride. So I tried something different. I sat with it. Not to indulge it. Not to suppress it. Just to observe what was actually happening in my body when that energy arose. Where it sat. How it moved. What it was actually asking for beneath the noise. At first it was overwhelming. That's the honest truth. Years of charge doesn't discharge quietly. But slowly — through repetition, through patience, through learning to stay present inside a feeling instead of running from it — the grip loosened. The arousal didn't disappear. But my relationship to it changed. It became information rather than emergency. Something to be curious about rather than afraid of. The pornography lost its hold not because I banned it, but because I stopped being afraid of what it stirred up in me. I stopped needing to either feed it or fight it. I could just feel it, acknowledge it, and choose. That's what sovereignty actually means. Not "I haven't watched porn in 90 days." Not another streak to count, another rule to white-knuckle your way through. Just — I am the one who decides. That's the only thing that matters.

@micheal_ws18 Working out all the time is the only way to get results.

What’s one fitness belief you had 5 years ago that makes you cringe now?

I'm looking to connect with people who genuinely enjoy helping others succeed. I don't have anything to sell you (my ICP is NOT founders or the AI tech crowd). But I can help with UX/content design/language decisions, or walk through user flows, talk through ideas, etc.

@ItsNala Always up for an authentic connection.

Just unfollowed 500 inactive accounts. If you’re still here and active, ily I’ll be following 500 cool people who interact with this post over the next 24 hours.👇

@femalebodybuil6 Coprophagia I believe🍽💩

What ?.

@Tristanrhee3 Deepfake right here👇

prove me you're not an ai