Tony Roper : Coach Ropes 🚢

Interested in topics around Coaching, Purpose, and Direction? Over the next 30 days, I'm writing 30 Atomic Essays as a part of @dickiebush and @Nicolascole77's Ship 30 for 30. Follow my Social Blog on @typeshare_co 👇 typeshare.co/tonyropercoach…

When did we start calling blood tests - 'Blood Work'? Do we do Liver laps? Lunge lunges? Is an Xray a Bone Bonanza ? Are they still urine tests or do you need to do a 'Bladder Blitz"'? Medicine is starting to sound like a high-intensity fitness class!

@SquidgeRugby absolutely love what you are doing mate. Get off this site for your own health x. Hopefully YouTube is more beneficial for you and less toxic? Or other platforms? I’ve cut myself off a lot of them myself. Barrel scrapers

Hard to overstate just how much this place being my default 'Waste 5 minutes' app has affected my mental health over the last few months. The scale and aggression of shit in my mentions & DMs every day for 3 months is something I sincerely hope nobody else ever has to go through.

@curiosityonx You’re next.

What would be the scariest message humanity could receive from outer space?

@FitFounder A beer in the bar where my future wife was.

What's something you purchased for under $100 that's completely changed your life?

Unexpected wave on a beach in Bali twitter.com/tradingMaxiSL/…

@itsandreabotez @MackZaren Is that Swedish for ‘slaking one’s thirst’? 😜. All the best with the set - lock that groove in.

@MackZaren October 4th!!! At Slakthuset in Stockholm :)

my techno fit 👹

@Roy_Sampson_777 @jmholmes_author @WallStreetSilv I was going to say Tauntaun’s back.

@jmholmes_author @WallStreetSilv I think you mean Nerf herder, the straw that broke the Nerf herder back.

In the interviews BEFORE Acolyte came out, Leslye Headland was extremely proud of her woke story and how they intentionally wanted to tick off their "problematic male dominated audience." Now that they are getting crushed by negative reviews, all of a sudden she is trying to claim that wasn't her intention?

@tferriss “Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.” – Brian Tracy

5. Relax, meditate, light reading. Intentionally focusing your mind on something before you sleep allows it to shift from the worries or thoughts from the day. The most important thing you’ll notice about having a book in your hand is that you don’t have a phone in your hand.

I had a conversation with a friend this week about how we all become captured by culture wars. We can call it The Culture War’s Shiny Object Cycle. Here is how it goes: 1. Some woke news story hits the press. -“Cats suffer from racial discrimination or screwing in lightbulbs needs to be recognised as a valid sexual kink or something.” 2. The Right Wing antibody response activates. -“Look at how insane these people are. *Matt Walsh quote tweets the article and calls it obnoxious* This is the problem with our convenient, decadent, TikTok society.” 3. This reaction causes the story to gain infinitely more traction than it ever would have done by signal boosting the original fringe-scenario into a much bigger event. ​ 4. The Left Wing counter-response activates. -“Right wingers lose their minds over one woman with a particularly dark cat. The Daily Wire has meltdown over insignificant troll article.” -In times where the original story is less insane, this includes a defence of the original article too. “Cats actually CAN experience trauma, minimising this is the REAL problem.” 5. The Right Wing re-reaction kicks into gear. -“Apparently I’m insane for pushing back against Cat Trauma. See this is the problem, if we don’t stand our ground, these blue haired idiots will take over the country.” 6. Finally, the Touch Grass Meta-Reactionaries steam in. -“The real issue is people talking about this issue. Look at how silly this whole thing is. It’s time to check out of the culture war. We should reconnect with what really matters. You should move onto the ranch next to Ryan Holiday and hammer fence posts into the ground for the rest of time.” This cycle is banal. It’s excruciatingly repetitive. So why does it sustain our attention if basically every discussion follows the same cycle? Because each story is sprinkled with just enough novelty to give it the illusion that this is a new, different event. Which legitimates the pushback… “We’ve not seen THIS Trans Flag with People Who Suffer From A Gluten Intolerance included in it before.” It’s like a 20th season of Lost where they’re back on an island for the 7th time and need to escape, but THIS TIME IT’S WINTER. The Culture War’s Shiny Object Cycle does my head in. It does my head in because I get captured by it. I see a bank rewriting classic fairy tales into a boss-bitch remake called Fairer Tales: Princesses Doing It For Themselves and think “this is fucking dumb, where’s Douglas Murray, I need him to decimate this idea with me.” It’s cathartic. Calling out insane ideas written by idiots is so compelling and fun and easy to do that it’s like being a cocaine addict with Pablo Escobar as a next door neighbour. The memes of production are whirring at maximum RPM and we’re all caught in the vortex. It was Douglas who reminded me why I’m getting so exasperated with this cycle. It is a distraction. A distraction from our attention being focussed on things which are actually meaningful. Not just meaningful in a “will you remember this when you’re dead”-way. But in a “there’s other issues that are more important to talk about”-way too. There’s entire American cities with fentanyl epidemics. 80% of suicides of people aged 18 to 24 are men. I want to hear Peterson talk about dealing with finding meaning in a world stripped of all its guard rails. I want Taleb to be writing about applying complex maths to simple life problems. Many of the smartest people on the planet have had their attention captured arguing about whether men are men and women are women or not over the last few years. And even more of the normal ones too. All of our collective minds are held hostage by an endless cycle of shiny objects that aggravate both sides and makes them feel righteous for standing their ground. I think this is a bottomless pit. I don’t think it’s going to stop. I will almost certainly bring up stories like these in future. But I’m gonna try hard to focus more on stuff that matters in 50 years, not just in 50 minutes. And probably so should you.

The single most powerful habit for personal growth: Journaling. Over the past 5 years, I've journaled every single morning—and along the way, I've: • Answered over 1,000 questions • Tested every app, pen, & notebook But I always return to a pen, paper, and these 5 prompts:

@Nicolascole77 Because pain in relationships doesn’t come from disagreements per se - it comes from either side ( or both) feeling they haven’t been heard or understood. Show and demonstrate understanding by calmly playing back and verifying what’s heard. Both sides.

@Nicolascole77 ‘Never go to sleep on an argument …. Stay up and fight all night! ‘ But seriously - when disagreements arise, learn to calm down by giving each other 5-10 mins to explain their view ( with no interruptions) and then 5 mins the listener playing back what they heard. Repeat

I am getting married this weekend. (Here's a picture of me and my soon-to-be wife on one of our first dates taking the Architectural Boat Tour in Chicago, 2016). What marriage advice do you have for me?

I can't stop thinking about this... Michael Caine on his defining philosophy on life: Use the Difficulty As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play scene when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the room in the scene. The actor's response: "Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it." This idea—of using the difficulty—became a defining mantra for Michael Caine's life. "There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down." This idea hit me hard... How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction? How can you sow the seeds of your light during the periods of darkness? As with everything in life, control the controllable: The difficulty is already there, you can't control it. You can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it. Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.

My statement regarding the AI generated George Carlin special: My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination.  No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind…1/3

@elonmusk Can the USA not get a national identity card and ensure verification via blockchain?

In the USA, you don’t need government issued ID to vote and you can mail in your ballot. This is insane.

@petergyang To be clear - they didn’t give the mask a good go. So it was months of them halfheartedly trying it on one night and then not again for days on end. The ‘30 day challenge’ helped them get used to it. They love the sleep they are getting now. Good luck!

@petergyang Please do this. A close ( and stubborn!) family member was clearly struggling for years and only after the over night sleep study was it proved to them. Then months of finding the CPAP mask uncomfortable. Til we had a bet to do 30 days in a row. 8+ hrs sleep a night now ❤️

My wife tells me that I snore and I also frequently wake up in the middle of the night. Any tips or personal anecdotes on fixing this? CPAP seems scary.

It’s important to add, if you love any of these songs or artists, please support them in substantive ways which can generate them real income: buy a ticket, some merch or a physical record. Always - if you can - look after the music-makers x Happy Xmas!

That might be through political infighting (steal someone's organization), pretending a project needs more headcount than it does, requesting / approving a project simply because it gets more headcount allocated to an organization, and so on.