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bridging strange people & ideas, building the future

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Sam@samism·
I am committed to not making this mistake My children will inherit a complete and total onboarding experience onto life and an unconditional lifelong mentorship I will do everything in my power to enrich them into escape velocity, and will still keep going until I die!
Simon Sarris@simonsarris

I thought it strange - my parents never really gave me advice growing up. Nothing about career, finance, romance, even small things like what to read or how to dress. It was as if they felt it was not their place. What I learned since is that this is absurdly common

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David Daines@daviddorg·
Just got my brain scan results back Language regions are the strongest, and visual processing is the weakest Cool that this lines up with cognitive testing. During the verbal fluency test my examiner had to say "stop saying words, I can't write that fast" And I've always had a hard time visualizing things. Curious if a year without screens changes that.
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"all of your trying is actually resistance to truly FEELING" FUCK. Massive!
Leigh St.John | Zentrepreneur@LeighStJohn33

The trickiest part about FEELING your feelings is that it's a complete non-doing It runs completely counter intuitive to how our EGO usually tries to "achieve" an outcome You simply have to stop trying or doing anything You have to see that all of your trying is actually resistance to truly FEELING the somatic density in your body An analogy I like to use with clients: (Because there's no inner peace & presence without processing first) Imagine you're in a sauna and you realize the door is locked *and it's really bloody hot* The heat here represents the sensation/emotion/feeling You try to find a way out frantically You start to test the walls, the ceiling, you push on the door Nothing works...and the more you struggle..the hotter and more uncomfortable the sauna becomes (The struggle = going into your to try to think away the feeling - which is pure avoidance 99% of randomly occurring thoughts arise because of not being willing to FEEL something) Eventually...exhausted and extremely uncomfortable... You give up You sit down "defeated" You fully accept the reality of this moment And you notice something...the sauna starts to cool down You get excited, get up to feel the door..and the heat spikes again... So you sit down and do nothing And the temperature starts going down So you give up You notice how you try to make even giving up into a "doing" Something to be achieved And the moment you do the temperature starts spiking again Eventually you just truly surrender The temperature goes way down and you hear a *click* The door opens And you walk out having gone through quite the experience... But all the stronger, wiser & more compassionate for it You go on to have one of the best days of your life as you feel this incredible sense of freedom and ease That calm presence That gentle joy That sense of lived wholeness These are the rewards for having the courage to stop holding back And start letting everything move through you That's the only difference between a self-mastered man And a man who lives in complete misery

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1000% Thinking statistically presupposes you are fundamentally at the mercy of external forces and the only thing you can really do is choose how you get raped by reality Stats aren't real, they're all just some f(x) with some dipshit's x plugged in. Skip the concept entirely
scott 🌞@scottdomes

one big difference between the most empowered people I know vs the least empowered people is that the latter category does a lot of "statistical thinking" i.e. "the odds aren't good for that, most businesses fail, you'd have to be incredibly lucky"

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Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam@ramez·
Yet another study: Exercise intensity is more important than exercise volume for longevity and for prevention of dementia, heart disease, diabetes, etc. This is so rooted in data now. Intensity is what drives almost all the benefits of exercise.
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Eric Topol@EricTopol

Intensity of exercise vs volume of physical activity made a difference for lower risks of 8 diseases and all-cause mortality among 96,000 @uk_biobank participants, especially noted for immune-mediated (IMID). VPA-vigorous physical activity academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva…

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@YOHAMI So what is the right relationship with mind and how does one achieve it?
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YOHAMI@YOHAMI·
Your relationship with your own mind is your relationship with women.
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Darshak Rana ⚡️
Darshak Rana ⚡️@thedarshakrana·
Every habit you can't quit exists because you're trying to quit the wrong thing. In ancient Pali texts, there's a meditation practice called "vedana" that translates roughly to "feeling tone observation." Monks would sit in caves for days, watching how their minds created suffering by chasing pleasant sensations and avoiding unpleasant ones. When a monk noticed the impulse to step out of meditation and reach for food, comfort, or distraction, they learned to meet the sensation with careful, clear attention. The focus stayed on the craving state itself rather than its object. What does wanting feel like in the body? Where does it show up? How does its intensity shift when you observe it directly instead of immediately following it? The monks discovered that craving has a lifespan. Every urge follows the same arc: it emerges from nothing, builds to a peak, then naturally subsides back to nothing. The duration is remarkably consistent across different types of desires. Roughly ninety seconds from onset to dissolution. They called this the "wave nature of vedana" and built entire liberation practices around the simple act of riding the wave instead of swimming against it. Fast forward today, Dr. Judson Brewer at Brown University put longtime meditators and chronic smokers into fMRI machines and watched their brains during craving episodes. When smokers experienced nicotine cravings, their anterior cingulate cortex and precuneus lit up like christmas trees. These regions house the default mode network, the brain's "selfing" system that generates the experience of "I want this thing." When experienced meditators experienced the same cravings, something different happened. The default mode network activated identically, but additional regions came online: the posterior cingulate cortex and insula. These areas are associated with metacognitive awareness, the capacity to observe your own mental processes rather than being consumed by them. The meditators weren't suppressing the craving. They were adding a second layer of consciousness that could watch the first layer experience desire. The brain scans revealed something the ancient monks had intuited: the neural activity of craving peaks and subsides in precisely ninety seconds when left uninterrupted by behavioral response. The anterior cingulate fires intensely for about sixty seconds, plateaus briefly, then begins to quiet. If you perform the habitual behavior during this window, you interrupt the natural resolution cycle and train the brain to expect that external action is required to return to baseline comfort. But if you simply observe the neurochemical storm while it runs its course, the brain learns that cravings are temporary weather patterns, not permanent states requiring immediate correction. Brewer's team tested this with a smartphone app that taught people to "surf" their cravings using principles derived from Buddhist meditation. Smokers who used the app for three weeks were five times more likely to quit than those using traditional cessation methods. The success rate held at six month follow up. They weren't using willpower to fight urges. They were using attention to redirect their relationship with the urge experience itself. The ancient technique works because it targets something that modern habit research completely missed: the difference between craving content and craving process. Every addiction treatment program focuses on the content. Avoid triggers that make you want cigarettes. Replace smoking with healthier behaviors. Understand why you developed the habit. Change your environment to reduce temptation. All content-based strategies that try to eliminate the conditions that generate cravings. Buddhist psychology understood that craving content is infinite and uncontrollable. You cannot eliminate all possible triggers from your environment. There will always be stress, boredom, social situations, emotional states that activate habitual responses. But craving process is finite and observable. Every desire follows the same neurological sequence regardless of its object. The monks called this "samma sati" or "right mindfulness" and described it as the capacity to observe the arising and passing of mental formations without being swept away by them. Modern neuroscience calls it "metacognitive awareness" and measures it as increased activity in brain regions associated with executive control and self monitoring. Same phenomenon, different vocabulary. The practical technique involves what researchers now call "urge surfing." When you feel the impulse to perform your habitual behavior, you set a timer for ninety seconds and observe the craving with the curiosity of a scientist studying an interesting specimen. What does this sensation feel like in your chest, your throat, your hands? How does it change from moment to moment? Does it have a color, texture, temperature? The main takeaway is treating the craving as information rather than instruction. Most of us experience desire as a command from their nervous system: "You must do this thing now or continue feeling uncomfortable." The Buddhist approach treats desire as data: "This is what wanting feels like when it moves through consciousness." The difference in framing completely changes your response. Commands demand action. Data invites investigation.
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DAN KOE@thedankoe

Habits so simple you think they’re not worth doing, but have a profound impact on your life: - Not touching your phone when you wake up - Not thinking about work after work is done - Putting a book down once you find an idea worth thinking about - Setting aside time to do nothing for 10 minutes a day - Going on a short walk after each meal - Eating a meal without a screen in front of you - Saying "I don't know" instead of pretending you do - Asking "What if this isn't actually a problem?" before trying to solve it - Letting yourself be bad at something instead of expecting perfection - Trying to understand something you disagree with instead of looking for flaws - Defaulting to "no" until you think through the commitment

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Sam@samism·
"You extinguish your own masculinity by not doing what you want to do." This.
Xans | Hypnotist + High Performance Hypnosis@xansnds

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what a masculine core is. Your masculine core is your conviction in your beliefs and feelings. It's your ability to always act on your feelings and recenter yourself anytime you get lost back to your core. It's not some fake red pill stoic alfa male idea of what masculinity is. Masculinity is whatever you decide is for you based on what you feel to be true. It's not what some red pill cuck says it is. It's not what some stoic religion says. It's not what some bullshit ideologies says to be true. It's not what the headlines say. It's not what your parents say. Etc. It's what you decided it is for yourself, and based on how you feel. Sinatra, Picasso, Cary Grant, etc., had conviction in what they believed in, enacted that, and shared that conviction with the world. They became famous as a byproduct of their specific flavor of conviction. It happened to align with society in that snapshot of history that equated to receiving fame. And their flavor of masculinity happened to, in some cases, as you described above, be chaotic, insecure, and even to cry in public. They did what they felt was true/right at the time. Having a masculine core doesn't mean you are perfect. It doesn't mean you don't have feelings. It doesn't mean you are some stoic robot that executes mindlessly, striving for some red pill ideal of what other men think you should be. It's whatever you feel you should be. Whoever you feel you should be. Whatever you feel is right. And then acting on that, regardless of what other people think , and staying true to yourself. I can be emotionally chaotic, deeply insecure, cry in front of women, still have a strong masculine core, and still be incredibly attractive to women. You are the one who thinks you can't. So you aren't. And you suppress your very life force as a result. You extinguish your own masculinity by not doing what you want to do.

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Illimitable Man (IM)
Illimitable Man (IM)@SovereignIM·
Actually an argument in favour of age gap The only way a 14 year old guy will be able to call out a girl doing something like this is if he is the son of a narcissistic mother with a ruthlessly trained disposition or a genetic psychopath Average guy gets cooked by age peer girl They say it's manipulative when the man is older, and yet women run rings around age peer men and habitually manipulate them, and nobody calls them out on this. The illusion is that age peers are mental equals, when they are not. Men are slower to develop. She is the “creepy older man” in this scenario, exploiting a poor young innocent boy's heartfelt goodness to flex her coming of age feminine sexual power, narrativising it as a cautionary tale of male incompetence whilst purporting to be ashamed. But she is not ashamed. It is a humble brag posing as a lesson. And men don’t need to learn about women from women anyway, their self-awareness pitiful. If you need to learn anything about women, you learn from a man who has conquered women and can repeatably reproduce that outcome aka someone competent with a true perceptive understanding, not an estrogenic self-indulgent ad hoc narrativiser.
Rivelino@alpharivelino

Why Women Shit Test by Susan Walsh (2011)

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Alex Hormozi@AlexHormozi·
Hiring the wrong person is like putting diesel in a gas car. Everything looks fine until you try to drive them.
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stepfanie tyler
stepfanie tyler@stepfanie·
Every time I meet a woman I'm like are you an SSRI-fueled communist, misandrist feminist, pronoun-obsessed Marxist, economically illiterate anti-capitalist, pro-censorship statist, body positive retard, delusional about biology, just dumb as fuck, or all of the above?
nasi@nasispadang

everytime i meet a man it’s a game of r u racist, homophobic, transphobic, right wing, capitalist, just dumb as fuck, or all of the above

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