Ed Latimore
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Ed Latimore
@EdLatimore
Hwy boxer (14-1-1) | Keynote Speaker | Author of Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business: Boxing and The Art of Life | Sponsored by @rebelhealth_
Pittsburgh, PA Katılım Ocak 2012
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Once was a magical place
Over time it was lost
Price increased the cost
Now the fortune of the kingdom
Is locked up in its dungeon vaults
The castle floor lies in traps
With coiled wires set back
Decoyed by old cheese, now the drawbridge
Has been lifted as the millions
They drop to their knees
They pay homage to a king
Whose dreams are buried in their minds
His tears are frozen stiff
Icicles drip from his eyes
-No Doubt, "Tragic Kingdom"
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The inefficiency is part of life
How do you think Quixote/The Bible/Onegin were crafted?
Someone just thought it up?
No, you have to live. No one is saying don't read either.
But until you go live and attempt to apply your knowledge, it may as well have never been read.
And this should be obvious, but just to be clear, this doesn't refer to reading doe sheer enjoyment. This is reading for knowledge.
And I am saying that unless you apply that that knowledge, it's just trivia. And that's fine, you will create nothing new.
There's a reason to get the highest level of educational distinction, you have to do original research. Not just accumulate more information.
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@EdLatimore You could spend an entire life doing a multitude of things and it wouldnt even scratch the surface of knowledge transferred from bible/quixote/eugene onegin.
Doing things the hard is the most time ineffective method of acquiring knowledge when you have geniuses at your disposal.
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This had to be said.
A library of books is worth a year spent writing one.
Joel Lopez | Save Your Marriage@TheeJoelLopez
Reading is a good thing but it’s not a hobby. Many are confused by it. It doesn’t require anything of you. For most people it’s pure consumption.
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My son posted this on TikTok.
Not gonna lie, made me cry a bit.
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@aruvinchan Right.
I have yet to hear a story of a girl in her early 20s trying to get pregnant but is having trouble.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen–obviously it does.
But I do not buy that the lower birthrates are because people in their 20s are trying and are unable to conceive
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Now reread what you just wrote...
And look at what I said.
You understand that I didn't mean to literally write a book, right?
The point was a poetic expression of the idea that taking action is better than reading about it. Because that's how you acquire the knowledge and experiences to write something.
Unless you're just copying what other people said and did
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@EdLatimore Because reading precedes writing, unless you're writing self-help. Books worth writing requires a pleathora of resources and decades of different peoples lived experience in said topic.
The point of reading is both expansion of imagination and conversations from prior generations
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@TheEdPill Nice work. The same way you rotate your kick by planting your lead leg and swinging your hips to kick, do the same thing with your punch.
Just move your arm around loose the same way as your leg. Wind up in the core and uncoil all at the same time.
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Reta is just the latest excuse to not hit the muay thai gym
These pussies will do anything but risk getting kicked in the face
All shortcuts lead to long term problems
Ed@TheEdPill
Bro dodged the vax 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ But bro fell for Reta 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Pour one out for bro
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Had a friend from high school challenge me about the Covid narrative being pushed (this was the Fall of 2020) when I mentioned there was obvious distortion of the numbers since the flu just disappeared that year (and the next)
He kept saying “this is serious, enough people to fill several airliners dię of Covid in the US everyday”
I thought it was a weird metric to use and it was impossible to get through to him that maybe he was being lied to
I looked online later and found that the comparison was being pushed by several news outlets
Ed Latimore@EdLatimore
The Illusory Truth Effect The illusory truth effect is a cognitive bias where repeated information is perceived as more truthful, regardless of its actual accuracy. Familiarity is mistaken for credibility, meaning hearing a statement multiple times—even if false—makes it more believable. This phenomenon is driven by processing fluency, where familiar information is easier to mentally process, thus making it easier to believe. Given how social media has rendered our attention span to something that can only be measured in nanoseconds, it's no wonder that people believe anything they see a headline about. Combine this with cognitively lazy approach of "journalistic" websites simply c̶o̶p̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ syndicating other stories, and it's no wonder this happens. If it aligns with a person's world view (confirmation bias) and it makes them emotional (emotional suggestibility), then you can be guaranteed they won't even think to question it. This is how you get groups of people defending a subjective interpretation of reality as if it's objectively accurate. We are doomed, because the ONLY fix for this requires so much work and confronting erroneous thoughts a person has invested energy into, that it won't happen. And you can't even train kids to do this because most people don't realize this happens and they don't want to believe it's happened to them. "It's easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled." -Mark Twain
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"The hardest part is not learning the right thing. It is unlearning the wrong thing you have already built your decisions around."
Disaster-Proof Life@DPL_Virginian
In disaster response I watched this destroy operations. Wrong information repeated in briefings became assumed fact. Nobody questioned it because it aligned with what they already believed. Add social media speed to that dynamic and you have a population that is increasingly impossible to course correct. The hardest part is not learning the right thing. It is unlearning the wrong thing you have already built your decisions around. The antidote is deliberate critical thinking taught early and practiced constantly. That work is deeply uncomfortable and most will never do it because it requires admitting they were wrong in the first place.
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In disaster response I watched this destroy operations. Wrong information repeated in briefings became assumed fact. Nobody questioned it because it aligned with what they already believed. Add social media speed to that dynamic and you have a population that is increasingly impossible to course correct.
The hardest part is not learning the right thing. It is unlearning the wrong thing you have already built your decisions around.
The antidote is deliberate critical thinking taught early and practiced constantly. That work is deeply uncomfortable and most will never do it because it requires admitting they were wrong in the first place.
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The Illusory Truth Effect
The illusory truth effect is a cognitive bias where repeated information is perceived as more truthful, regardless of its actual accuracy.
Familiarity is mistaken for credibility, meaning hearing a statement multiple times—even if false—makes it more believable.
This phenomenon is driven by processing fluency, where familiar information is easier to mentally process, thus making it easier to believe.
Given how social media has rendered our attention span to something that can only be measured in nanoseconds, it's no wonder that people believe anything they see a headline about.
Combine this with cognitively lazy approach of "journalistic" websites simply c̶o̶p̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ syndicating other stories, and it's no wonder this happens.
If it aligns with a person's world view (confirmation bias) and it makes them emotional (emotional suggestibility), then you can be guaranteed they won't even think to question it.
This is how you get groups of people defending a subjective interpretation of reality as if it's objectively accurate.
We are doomed, because the ONLY fix for this requires so much work and confronting erroneous thoughts a person has invested energy into, that it won't happen.
And you can't even train kids to do this because most people don't realize this happens and they don't want to believe it's happened to them.
"It's easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled."
-Mark Twain
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@EdLatimore "Money only solves your money problems."
Never had a good articulation as to why wealthy families are often just as dysfunctional.
Enjoyed reading your perspective on adversity.
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There’s a reason why kids who grow up in that environment are considered “at-risk youth”.
However, not all who come from this environment end up in prison or with a lower quality of life. It’s not a guarantee that having a rough childhood sets you up for a rough adulthood, but the odds are not on your side.
How you start the race determines not just how you run it and how far you’ll go in it, but if you’ll even finish at all.
But one thing that doesn’t get enough attention is the strengths people gain from surviving a childhood like that.
Ed Latimore@EdLatimore
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