Florian Walther

@RobertGreene I'm in this mode now at 35 and it feels like pure bliss

Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.

@Fintech03 Imagine we developed all of this to eat lettuce and tomtatoes

I had read this on one of those long, boring flights. If we look at the skeleton of a chimpanzee/a pig, they lack a specific cord in their neck called the Nuchal Ligament. We have this elastic band connecting the skull to the spine. This ligament has 0 function in walking. Its only job is to keep our head from wobbling violently while we run. Cos we developed this, we can keep our eyes fixed on a horizon/a moving prey while our body is bouncing in a full gallop. We are essentially steadicam hunters :)

@RobertGreene Important to remember. Everything I became good at, I had to first fail for years. Especially hard because the internet shows you the 0.01% outliers who figured it out fast.

What matters is not education or money, but your persistence and the intensity of your desire to learn; that failures, mistakes, and conflicts are often the best education of all; and how true creativity and mastery emerge from all this.

@sivori What if I prefer to do nothing and just complain?

Lift weights if you're anxious, the proprioceptive nerve input (weight on joints) is calming. If you're depressed, get morning sun. Run every day until you're not depressed. Get good sleep and stay off your phone. Often people with mental health challenges need more sensation. Go swimming, lie in the sun, garden. Listen to your body instead of your mind.

Yerba Mate is underrated. Gives you a more even caffeine kick than coffee, and you can refill and drink from the same leaves all day.

@elonmusk Luckily

You can now select topics for your timeline, so if you’re tired of political ragebait, you can select something else 😂 Just tap on For You.

@justinskycak ...but most of the unreasonable men fail in the process

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw

@Markmanson True. The best way I found to follow through with habits is a fucking SCHEDULE

Goals are the actions you think about but don’t do. Habits are the actions you do but don’t think about. ㅤ Better goals require a lot of effort and change little. Better habits will change everything.

@newstart_2024 Wake up, piss, get to work Everything else is procrastination

Mark Wahlberg drops a no-BS morning routine truth bomb: “Discipline has afforded me so much… I only wish I did it more when I was younger.” His unbreakable daily start (even his wife tried to talk him out of daily ice baths): - Wake up → Pray, express gratitude, ask for direction & strength to use his gifts for God’s purpose (not worldly distractions) - Take vitamins - Cold plunge - Hit the gym After that sequence: “I feel like I can do anything.” He admits life still hits hard, but the discipline equips him to handle it. No phone addiction, no sugar crashes—just consistent fuel for body, mind, and soul. Message to parents & younger versions of himself: Hard choices now = easier, stronger life later. Eat clean, train hard, pray first, stay off the junk—because it works. What’s the one non-negotiable habit in your morning routine that sets the tone for the whole day?

The house I grew up in. As a kid, I thought it was boring. Now, it feels straight out of a fairytale. I just visited it for the first time in 20 years since my mother split up with my stepfather.

@OpiumX_29 Healthy testosterone levels and females with tight leggings I wish I could give you a more politically correct answer

i am BEGGING someone to tell me the secret to enjoying working out

@theJayAlto That's before AI and peptides Soon every troglodyte can do anything

derek sivers with an absolute banger

@fastrlife @bryan_johnson This is the #1 benefit why I drink black coffee. It makes intermittent fasting much easier.

@bryan_johnson Not to mention: Caffeine blunts hunger… Which naturally keeps you leaner over time… Which leads to a drastic decrease in all cause mortality… There’s levels to this…

2-3 cups of coffee per day associated with an 18% lower dementia risk and better cognition in a 40-year study of 130,000 participants. Even with these benefits, I can't do it; caffeine creates a physiological roller coaster and enslaves me.

@leonoviq @bryan_johnson Thank you for phrasing it so eloquently. Tired of this gaslighting.

This study, like most epidemiological studies, is worthless. I say this as someone who has published many epidemiological studies in my day, at one of the best medical institutions in the world. It is implicitly making an argument about something that it has no ability to make an argument about. You state "benefits" as though you interpret that the decreased dementia risk is due to the caffeine itself. This is not true, just like it's untrue that caffeine decreases mortality risk. This is deeply unserious, deeply amateurish, and frankly can't be done by the most prominent longevity proponent we have. Please think for a second. Do you think that an addictive, tolerance- and withdrawal-forming stimulant that increases sympathoadrenal activation, increases blood pressure and heart rate (increasing myocardial demand), reduces slow-wave sleep, causes insomnia, causes tremor, causes GERD, provokes anxiety, and triggers arrhythmias, would decrease your risk for dementia or mortality? Does that for one second make sense in any universe? That should be your first clue that there is something wrong here. If you're serious about longevity and reading epidemiologic studies, you need to understand the following topics in depth, at a level that the published literature doesn't even adequately discuss, much less address: confounding, reverse causation, selection bias, and most importantly, adjustment artifacts.

@TalebWisdom - out of shape guy

"Fitness is certainly the sign of strength, but outside of natural stimuli the drive to acquire fitness can signal some deep incurable weakness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

@HumanityChad When I'm on live television you better believe I do some selfless shit like that

During the biathlon event one contestant knocks the pole out of his competitors hand by accident. He then gives him one of his own to make up for it.

@WallStreetApes great ceo

CEO of Chipotle caught on a recording indicating they’re going to keep raising prices because they can “We learned that 60% of our core users are over $100,000 a year in income, in average household income. That gives us confidence that we can lean into that group in a more meaningful way — to really drive meaningful transaction performance in the year” - Chipotle Earnings call

@george__mack that's why they conquered worlds

@scottinallcaps @levelsio People will defend their "depression" and "ADHD", but then sleep 6h a night, eat garbage, and watch Netflix on a bright screen at 11 pm. Every single person I know who has these kinds of problems is asking for them.

@levelsio I think he actually believes this

Sadly he blocked me so I can't reply But I will never stop calling out anti depressants (SSRIs) for being overprescribed and abused in current day society Even if it makes me very unpopular to do so It's more popular to say "good for you" than "this stuff is extremely dangerous" A real friend actually would tell you the latter Time will tell

I have begun publishing my free article series on the fundamentals of meditation practice. None of this was written by AI. It is just someone who used to teach programming taking a similar approach to sharing what I have practiced and learned for over a decade. Part 1: Risk and rewards of meditation practice. rkay301.medium.com/risks-rewards-…