Robert Kinsler

@LauraPowellEsq Thats level two thinking so no, not everyone.

Everyone recognizes this as a symptom of something bad, right?

@rand_longevity Weights 2-3x a week, cardio 2-3x

how often do you workout?

A few "boring" things I love: - Going to bed early - Waking up early - Eating simple foods - Saving money - Moving my body - Walking in silence - Reading old books - Avoiding drama Boring is seriously underrated.

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

Life is amazing: -coffee exists -gyms exist -hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1 -you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom -you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert -every food item in the world has been hunted/gathered for you (grocery stores) -you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country There are people who live in wheelchairs. There are kids born with disabilities. No 4th of July weekends, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar. And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!? You are spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)

You're 80 years old. You don't take medications. You can pick up your grandkids easily. You're not afraid to go up or down stairs. You're independent and loving life. This happened because you kept a healthy weight, strength trained, ate whole foods, and prioritized sleep. Getting older is inevitable but being unhealthy is not.

Discontent is the starting point. Elect to be creatively discontent or destructively discontent, regardless of which you choose you wont escape discontentment.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history. He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough. RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

The $5M Michael Jackson Pepsi ad (1983) He demanded that his face not be shown for more than 3 seconds. He never wanted to do the commercial; he did it so his brothers could make money. Nobody was getting paid when Mike left. $5M in 1983 was a BAG 💰

I wish more 40 year olds posted on social media. You're old enough to have gone through most of life's milestones. You know what the world was like before and after the internet and AI. We need your wisdom. Please post more.

@PathOfMen_ Someone somewhere is counting on you even if you don't realize.

To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now

Its expensive to be poor.

A young man sees someone drive by in a Ferrari with a blonde. He thinks: that guy has everything. Jordan Peterson says look closer. "The woman in the car is a prostitute with a cocaine addiction. Her life is one catastrophe after another." "He's had to lie and cheat his way into this position. He's afraid everything's going to come crashing down on him." "And that's what you're jealous of." He spent 15 minutes explaining what we're actually built for: "We view ourselves as built for pleasure. For consumption. For safety. For egotistical self-aggrandizement and fame." "What are we actually built for? Maximal challenge." "We're built to walk uphill. When you reach the pinnacle, you want to stop and appreciate the vision. But the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance." "It's from the uphill climb that we derive our value." This is why young men disappear into video games. "That's all acted out in the video game. The active warrior moving uphill with sword in hand. That's dynamic. That's exciting." "They have to act that out in their own life. Video games are not a substitute for life." Start where you are. Even if it's embarrassing. "Humility is starting where you are. If your life is a mess, you have to see that you're the person in that mess." "Your first attempt to fix it might not be something you're particularly proud of." "I saw this in my clinical practice. The first steps people had to take were pretty embarrassing. They'd think: really? That's all I can do?" "Hey, man. Uphill is better than downhill." Here's what most people don't understand about momentum: "You accrue success exponentially. You accrue defeat exponentially too." "Start going downhill, you go downhill faster and faster. Start going uphill, you go uphill faster and faster." "Even if you have to start painfully small, it doesn't matter." Everyone wants confidence. But self-esteem is a lie. "Self-esteem doesn't even exist. It's a pathological concept altogether." "You want confidence that's based in competence. Otherwise it's narcissistic." "How do you develop that? You watch yourself exceed your limits." "And then you think: there's something in me that can exceed my limits. That's your true self." You want a goal you can never fully attain. "Almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm, is experienced in relationship to a goal." "You want a horizon of ever-expanding possibility." "People stake their soul on attaining an instrumental goal. Then they get there and think: now what?" "The answer can't be: I'm going to live in the lap of luxury and never have to do anything." "What do you want to be? A giant infant with a gold bottle? You never have to do anything but lay on your back and suck." "No. You want to be an active warrior moving uphill with your sword in hand." Now here's the dark part: "You need to contemplate your own malevolence. Because you're not only who you are. You're who you could be. For better or worse." "I think it's easier to understand who you could be if you were better once you deeply understand who you could be if you were worse." "You think: I'm way deeper on the negative end than I thought. Much more closely aligned with the forces of hell than I presumed." "That's easy to swallow factually. Not so easy to swallow emotionally. It's a bitter pill." "I don't think you can contemplate the good without contemplating the evil first. It doesn't have the depth." "Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Many of his clients are too agreeable. They let everyone else win. "They're resentful and don't know how to stand up for themselves. They're very compassionate by nature. If you're negotiating with them, they'll let you win." "That's not good. You need to win too." "You cannot negotiate unless you can say no. And it causes conflict to say no." The solution sounds counterintuitive. "You have to develop your inner monster a little bit. And that makes you a better person, not a worse person." "It's weird. But that's just how it is." On privilege and how to pay for it: "Some cards are privilege. Maybe you're born intelligent. Symmetrical. Healthy. Into a culture where it's easier not to be deprived. Maybe your parents are rich." "All of that is unearned." "The way you pay for your privilege is with your virtue." "You expiate and atone by doing your best to live the best possible life you can manage. To speak the truth. To treat people with respect. To put your house in order." On envy: "Don't be so sure your position in your room is so damn trivial. It might be your attitude towards it that's trivial." "If you're in dire circumstances, look at how much opportunity you have to make things better." "You don't even want it to be easy."

@CoachDanGo @leo_sterone Dont measure on a curve when your life depends on it. These are too modest.

@leo_sterone Yes, but how many can the average guy do right now?

7 basic fitness standards for men over 40. Agree or disagree?

@Dearme2_ Trust in myself.

MEN ONLY!!!! What saved you when you were at your lowest?

@MelTradeOptions @DividendMil It shows that they CAN learn and how to learn. Not every subject will be applicable to their adult life, but who knows what that will look like?

@DividendMil I totally agree with you. And I seriously don't know how to explain to my kid the reason why they need to learn trigo in school. I can't tell them that the only reason is just so they can pass their exam.

I’m 42 years old and I am yet to ever use the Pythagorean theory in a real life setting… Another reason why financial education should be taught in schools instead of trigonometry

@MetamateDaz Close... capitalism is that sometimes that worker makes $1000 of value and sometimes costs $1000. Its the inconsistency and the risk between these two truths, along with the capital needed to fund the times where things run short, that powers capitalism.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Buying and selling is NOT capitalism. That’s trade. Capitalism is an employee generating $1,000 of value an hour but being paid $16.

@MeghanEMurphy @jaycurrie The problem is the measuring stick and definition of "happy". Society has been moving to a space of delusion of what happy is and should be and yes by the modern definition almost no body is. Happiness is not, should not, be the pinnacle goal or priority.

@jaycurrie It works for some but they seem to be in the minority… most marriages aren’t happy, as I observe them…

Considering the amount of women I know who’ve gone through divorces and come out the other end, I feel 100% affirmed in my choice to not marry. Not-all-women, of course, but most are happier post-divorce and were unhappy-to-miserable in their marriages. I do understand the purpose of marriage—for the kids—but in general it doesn’t seem to make women happy so much as unhappy, stressed, and often kind of traumatized… I realize this is a gauche thing to say, considering the heterodox pro-marriage wave, but I think it’s generally true… Marriage just isn’t often an enjoyable or beneficial arrangement for many women…

@MonicaBaumann Sorry Monica but youre not smarter than our founding fathers. We are a collection of states. States have interest beyond just a popular vote. Direct democracy has plenty of flaws that the founders worked very hard to resolve. The electoral college is a brilliant solution.

There would be some challenges to adopting a national popular vote for President, but one of the most underdiscussed benefits that would make that challenges worth tackling is our elections would not be dominated by the swing voters in swing states. Let's end Pennsylvania supremacy.