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If you feel lost, build something. A business. Your body. A skill set. Anything that gives you a reason to learn and focus. Don't worry about choosing the right thing. Don't think about how difficult it will be. Just start moving forward and you'll find a path that feels right

You only have to get jacked once. Build muscle and your body adds permanent myonuclei to those fibers; That’s cellular machinery that doesn’t disappear when you stop training. Studies show these nuclei stick around for 15+ years; Possibly forever. Muscle memory is maxed out for 20 weeks after you take a break from lifting. In that period… It literally takes ~5 lifting sessions to get back to your best form. Losing your gains is a fallacy; You’d have to intentionally quit the gym or lose your desire to maintain a great physique to really “fall off”… Get jacked once. Then coast on that biology for the rest of your life…

The greatest trait you can acquire is to work with tremendous intensity on things that matter to you, and more importantly, be strangely unbothered when those things don't work out.

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. That schedule was invented for coal miners burning 4,800 calories a day. You burn about 2,200 at a desk. The three-meal pattern took off in the 1850s, during the Industrial Revolution. Workdays ran twelve hours, and factory workers and miners needed a midday meal just to stay upright. Before then, most English people ate twice a day. Romans ate once. Lunch didn't even exist as a separate meal. The average American walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day, about a mile and a half. Anything under 5,000 puts you in sedentary territory. A sedentary 35-year-old guy needs about 2,200 calories a day to hold his weight steady. A sedentary woman, around 1,800. One chain-restaurant dinner runs 900 to 1,500 calories on its own. Researchers at the University of Toronto measured meals at 19 sit-down chains. Breakfasts averaged 1,226 calories, lunches 1,000, dinners 1,128. Do the math: 3,354 calories from main dishes alone. Throw in a soda and dessert and you clear 4,000, roughly what a coal miner used to eat in 1890. US food supply per person has climbed 23% since 1970. Our step counts have gone the opposite direction. The World Health Organization says more than 1 in 4 adults globally miss even the bare-minimum physical activity level. And 40.3% of American adults are now obese, according to the CDC's latest national health survey. Up from 30.5% in 2000. Three meals a day was built for people who swung pickaxes. The rest of us are borrowing their meal plan.

Humans shouldn't always stay at home, even if you have nothing to do. Because staying at home for too long makes the brain become dull and leads to overthinking. You'll have more negative emotions. Psychology calls this state mental rumination. Most of the time, people who stay at home long term are not physically lazy - but mentally exhausted. You increasingly do not want to go out or see people. Even going to the supermarket downstairs to buy a bottle of water feels troublesome. You start to get used to being in a daze alone, scrolling through your phone and staying up late. Then you repeatedly struggle with yourself in an empty room. You think you're resting. But in fact, you're quietly draining the vitality of life. Your brain needs stimulation. Movement. Connection. Without it, your thoughts turn inward and spiral. The longer you isolate, the harder it becomes to break the pattern.

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yesterday while I cooked dinner for my son, he was so mature and said, "one day i’ll help you with bills, groceries, and expenses." my eyes teared up he’s a 33 year old crypto trader

@AjeboDanny No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable Socrates 🖊️

It’s a shame for a man to go through life never seeing how good he could look, simply because he refused to work out.

Your bones are silently breaking down every day after 30 and most people have no idea it's happening until it's too late. Your skeleton is living tissue, and it's constantly being broken down and rebuilt through a process called bone remodeling. Special cells called osteoclasts tear down old bone while osteoblasts lay down new material in its place. But osteoblasts need a reason to build and that reason is mechanical stress. When you load your skeleton against activities like lifting, running, and jumping your bones respond by increasing density to handle it. This is called Wolff's Law. Bone adapts to the loads placed upon it. Remove the loads and it regresses. When the bone starts to look like a honeycomb, like what you see in the image, that is what osteoporosis looks like. It is not just an old person’s disease. It starts silently in your 30s if you are sedentary, and it accelerates through your 40s. By your 50s and 60s, it becomes a major risk factor for fractures. Most people don't realize you're either building your bones or breaking them down. The best way to keep them is to stay active.

You need to read more, and you need to consume less. You need to set aside time to do a workout for the mind, and you need to give it time to recover. Especially now that it's so easy for your cognitive capacity to atrophy. Refuse to become mentally obese.

If you want to achieve anything great, it needs to become your one true priority. The only thing on your mind. Nobody accidentally got rich from business. Nobody accidentally built a great physique. They were obsessed with it for multiple years until it became their default.

You must write. Write about what you learn. Write about what’s on your mind. Write about what’s happened to you. Write about what you want. Write about what you know. Write to yourself. Write to your friends. Write to your family. Write to an audience. It doesn’t really matter what, who and where you write. It matters that you write. No skill will help you see, or communicate, more clearly.

An intelligent man never lets urgency from others override the patience his strategy requires.

You as a single person have more power today than a 20 person company of the past. That's insane. The internet gave you the ability to learn anything. Social media gave you the leverage to reach anyone. AI is giving you the ability to create almost anything. Please don't waste it

You need to write more. Without AI. Without templates. Without knowing what you're writing about. Just you, an idea, and enough time to do the difficult cognitive work necessary to reach true understanding. If you don't, your ability to think will drastically decline.

Reducing what goes on in a boy’s head on his birthday to fake maturity is an evidence to how insensitive the other gender can be to a boy, many times even in relationships. For boys, a lot of expectations are attached to age While birthday is a call for studio photoshoot for some for many boys, new age is a reminder of the apartment of their own that they should have had It’s a reminder that they are getting too old to be where they’re financially, academically and relationship wise etc On a normal day a boy could just sit and start thinking of how to move forward in life, that thinking is more intense on a birthday So if they don’t send a picture of themselves as broadcast to all contacts on WhatsApp group for a repost, it’s not a flex They are grateful for life, but when they have something truly worth celebrating they won’t hold back It’s not fake maturity, we are usually on a date with reality and reality is not friendly.

My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear: "It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

It seems like everyone is obsessed with productivity and efficiency yet rarely get anything meaningful done. I'm convinced your best work is done when you're not working. When you have space for creative ideas to emerge that drastically change the trajectory of your life/work.

@AnalystAdekola Borrow from opay again, I can't teach you everything.

You're owing Opay ₦400k, and it has elapsed. Your boss sent ₦2M project money to your Opay without notifying you or asking the account to send it. Opay deducted their money, now you have ₦1.6M You have to send ₦1.9M to a contractor immediately. What will you do?

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