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This is probably the best piece I've ever written on getting in peak shape in 90 days. Block out 10 minutes and read it slowly, sit with it, and don't skim the peptide section.

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En 2011, la autora y coach Mel Robbins dio una charla directa y brutalmente honesta: “Cómo dejar de sabotearte a ti mismo”. Tiene más 34 millones de vistas. Sus ideas clave: No estás “atascado”, estás evitando Tu cerebro te sabotea por diseño La acción vence a la emoción En vez de procrastinar hoy, deberías ver este video. Aqui tienes 12 lecciones para dejar de autosabotearte: Hilo 🧵 1. No eres perezoso, estás dominado por hábitos automáticos

Use your own discernment and judgement. Watch this and then ask yourself how your instincts inform you. This skill will be vital for each day ahead. Develop your skills and try it on this video.

Chris Camillo says 15 people called him in one week ready to quit their jobs after setting up a $650 Mac Mini "Over the course of the last week I've probably gotten 15 calls from people in my network that told me they were about to quit their job" "They got a Mac Mini, got it set up and said Chris I can literally start any business in the world and have it running in 48 hours" "Every hour matters, I cannot give up hours, I must quit my job, so if you're young and you've been complaining because the world was jaded against you and you didn't have any opportunity, YOU JUST GOT IT"

Many of the exercises you see from flashy Instagram influencers are terrible. After coaching 100s of clients, here are my top 10 exercises (bookmark this): 🧵 1. Incline Dumbbell Chest Press

if you are sure you want to build something great and get rich in the process but don't know what, do yourself a favor and read this:

1.Download Obsidian → create a new vault (folder) 2.Download Claude Desktop (Claude Code) 3.Point Claude to the path of your vault 4.Paste the prompt from the article > Just 4 steps and 10 minutes of your time The face I made when I realized I had been suffering all this time, not knowing such simple things

the guy who called peptides early and went long AMD at $4, Tesla at $13 and Palantir at $7 is driving around the med while most investors are staring at red portfolios. he wrote the article that explains how. read it before everyone else does.

🚨In 1990s, Stanford researcher Dr. Robert Sapolsky discovered something that should have broken the internet by now. He was studying dopamine pathways in primates and found that the brain doesn't just adapt to repeated stimulation. It actively fights back. When you flood dopamine receptors consistently, the brain deploys what neuroscientists call "opponent processes." For every artificial high you create, your nervous system generates an equal and opposite neurochemical low. Not eventually. Immediately. The system is designed to maintain balance, so it starts producing compounds that directly counteract dopamine while you're still experiencing the dopamine hit. This means every notification, every scroll, every digital reward doesn't just give you a high followed by a return to baseline. It gives you a high followed by a crash below baseline. You end up in neurochemical debt. Tech companies never publicized this research. They probably never read it. They were too busy discovering that variable ratio reinforcement schedules could keep users engaged for hours. They built addictive systems by accident, then refined them into addiction machines once they realized what they'd stumbled onto. Your phone delivers an average of 80 dopamine hits per day. Your ancestors got maybe 5. Each hit triggers opponent processes that create a corresponding low. By the end of a typical day of normal phone usage, your baseline dopamine is running in negative territory. You feel flat, restless, vaguely unsatisfied, and hungry for stimulation because your brain chemistry is literally below zero. You think you're bored. You're chemically depressed by artificial highs. The opponent process theory explains why nothing feels interesting anymore. Your brain isn't broken. It's precisely calibrated to maintain neurochemical balance, and you keep throwing that balance off with artificial intensity. Every Instagram hit requires an equal Instagram crash. Every TikTok high gets paid for with a TikTok low. Every notification rush gets balanced with notification emptiness. Your reward system is running a neurochemical deficit that grows larger every day. Sapolsky's research revealed something even more disturbing: opponent processes don't just create temporary lows. They become permanent changes to your baseline dopamine production. Chronic overstimulation doesn't just make you tolerant to digital rewards. It makes you insensitive to natural rewards. The sunset that would have captivated your great-grandfather becomes invisible to you not because sunsets got worse, but because your dopamine system needs intensity levels that sunsets can't provide. A good conversation becomes boring not because conversations got less interesting, but because your brain requires the rapid-fire stimulation of social media to register engagement. You've accidentally trained your reward system to ignore everything that isn't artificially amplified. This connects to research from Dr. Anna Lembke at Stanford, who found that people who undergo complete digital fasting for just 30 days show measurable increases in dopamine receptor density. Their brains literally regrow sensitivity to natural rewards. Food tastes better. Music sounds more complex. Social interactions become genuinely engaging again. But there's a catch that nobody talks about: the first two weeks of dopamine detox feel like clinical depression. Your brain has been chemically dependent on artificial stimulation for years. Removing that stimulation creates actual withdrawal symptoms. Restlessness, anxiety, inability to focus, emotional flatness, and desperate cravings for digital input. Most people interpret these symptoms as evidence that they need their phones. Actually, they're evidence that they've been neurochemically dependent on their phones without realizing it. The withdrawal period isn't a bug. It's proof the reset is working. What happens after week three is remarkable. Colors become more vivid. Conversations become genuinely absorbing. Simple pleasures like hot coffee or cool air become satisfying in ways you forgot were possible. Your brain rediscovers that reality contains enough complexity and beauty to hold your attention without artificial amplification. You don't need more interesting content. You need more sensitive reward systems. The solution isn't better apps or more engaging entertainment. The solution is restoring your brain's factory settings for what constitutes a worthwhile experience. Sapolsky's opponent process research suggests this can happen faster than anyone expected. Every day you don't artificially spike your dopamine, your baseline moves a little higher. Every natural reward you pay attention to rebuilds receptor density. Every moment of boredom you endure without reaching for stimulation strengthens your capacity for sustained focus. Ancient humans lived in a world that provided exactly the right amount of stimulation to keep their reward systems healthy. Enough challenge to stay engaged, enough calm to stay balanced, enough novelty to stay curious, enough routine to stay stable. We built a world that provides 10 times too much stimulation and wonder why nothing feels rewarding anymore. Your brain is not the problem. Your environment is the problem. Change the environment, and the brain heals itself automatically.

How to not pay for an AI agent. Get a computer you don’t use. NO NOT AN APPLE MAC STUDIO (like and subscribe). Use something far less expensive, ask @Grok to find a useful pile of junk on eBay. And here are the complicated steps:

when you become a millionaire in 1-3 years because you sell personalised knowledge bases and it’s all because (I repeat): 1: you learn how to build llm knowledge bases (the guide drops everything you need) 2: you go to people who are cash rich and time poor. lawyers, doctors, consultants, agency owners, property investors, founders. people drowning in information they never have time to organise 3: you show them what a personalised knowledge base looks like. their research, their documents, their industry intel, all compiled into a searchable wiki that gets smarter every time they use it 4: you offer a one-time build for 1.5k. you set up obsidian, build the folder structure, configure the schema, clip their first 20-30 sources, run the compilation, hand them a working system with a walkthrough 5: you offer a yearly maintenance package for 500. you update their wiki with new sources, run health checks, add new topics as their work evolves, keep the whole thing current 6: you land 5 clients and that’s 7.5k upfront plus 2.5k recurring every year. 10 clients and you’re looking at 15k plus 5k annual. for a system that takes you a few hours to build once you know the workflow 7: again, if you find 200 clients and you’re sitting on 300k upfront and 100k recurring every single year. for building markdown files. the beauty of this is the work gets faster every time you do it. your second build takes half the time of your first. by your fifth you could knock one out in an afternoon. and the people who need this most have no idea it exists. their competition definitely doesn’t have one. you’re not selling software. you’re selling an unfair advantage in their specific field.

She literally shared 1 common phrase is a weapon against your progress.

The best 20 minutes you’ll spend today. David Lynch on living more by doing less. x.com/thebeautyofsaa…