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A team of researchers in New Zealand followed 1,037 babies from the day they were born for the next 45 years to find out what actually determines a successful adult life, and the strongest predictor they found had almost nothing to do with intelligence or family wealth. The findings have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. Almost no parent has heard of them. His name is Avshalom Caspi. Her name is Terrie Moffitt. They are a husband and wife research team based at Duke University and King's College London, and the study they have spent their careers running is called the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. It started in 1972 in a single hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. Every baby born there in a 12-month window was enrolled. 1,037 of them. The study is still running today. The retention rate is the part that should astonish anyone familiar with how research usually works. After more than 45 years, over 90 percent of the original participants are still being tracked. Most longitudinal studies lose half their sample inside ten years. The Dunedin team has lost almost nobody. They measured everything. Blood. DNA. Brain scans. Income. Criminal records. Romantic relationships. Drug use. Dental health. Sleep. Mental health. Lung function. They flew participants who had moved abroad back to Dunedin every few years for a full day of assessments. Some of those people now live in seven different countries. They still show up. For the first decade of life, the team did something nobody else was doing systematically. They measured each child's self-control. Not IQ. Not family income. Not parenting style. Self-control. They watched 3-year-olds in a research lab and rated their ability to wait, regulate frustration, follow instructions, and resist impulsive reactions. They added teacher ratings. They added parent ratings. They added the children's own self-reports as they grew older. They combined all of it into a single highly reliable score. Then they did the thing nobody else had the patience to do. They waited. When the data came in at age 32, the result was so consistent it should be illegal to teach a child without it. The children who scored lowest on self-control at age 3 grew into adults with worse physical health, more substance dependence, lower incomes, more credit card debt, higher rates of single parenthood, more criminal convictions, and worse mental health than the children who scored highest. The pattern was not subtle. It was a clean gradient. Every step up in childhood self-control produced a measurable step up in adult outcomes across every domain the team could measure. The detail that should disturb every parent reading this is what happened when the researchers controlled for the obvious objections. When they controlled for IQ, the effect held. When they controlled for family income and social class, the effect held. When they compared siblings inside the same family, the sibling with lower self-control still had worse adult outcomes than the sibling with higher self-control. Same parents. Same house. Same dinner table. The trait was running independently of everything researchers expected to explain it. The paper landed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. The title was as plain as it gets. "A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety." It has been cited thousands of times since. Almost no policy maker has acted on it. The reason most people resist this finding is that it sounds like a sentence handed down before the child could speak. If the trait that determines your adult life is locked in by age 3, the rest of your life is a formality. The Dunedin researchers say that is the wrong way to read the data. They found something else in the same paper that almost nobody quotes. Some of the children whose self-control scores improved between childhood and adolescence ended up with adult outcomes far better than their early scores predicted. The trait is not destiny. It is a muscle. Children who learned to wait, regulate, and resist between ages 5 and 15 caught up with kids who started ahead. Self-control is the one childhood trait nobody seems to teach on purpose anymore. Schools focus on test scores. Parents focus on activities. Coaches focus on performance. The part of the brain that decides between five seconds from now and five years from now is left to develop on its own, and the data shows it usually does not. The most uncomfortable part of the research is the cost calculation Moffitt and Caspi ran. They estimated that if a country could move the bottom 20 percent of children up one rung on the self-control ladder, it would measurably reduce healthcare spending, welfare dependency, and incarceration costs at the national level. The intervention is cheaper than almost any other public health investment available. Almost no country has tried it at scale. The reason adults struggle with money, weight, addiction, and relationships is rarely intelligence. It is the gap between what you want right now and what you want in ten years, and which side of that gap your nervous system is built to listen to. Most people lost that fight at age 4 and never went back to learn the technique. You were not behind because life dealt you a bad hand. You were behind because the part of you that decides between right now and the rest of your life was never taught how to choose. The good news is the muscle is still there. Almost nobody trains it after age 10. You can be the one who does.

A huge congratulations is in order for all of the poverty-stricken villages around the world that will soon be welcoming back all of their genius billionaires.

It gets so much worse… Ron Johnson released a new Covid Vaccine Study on pediatric deaths caused by the Covid Vax… The CDC reported 80%+ of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred within 14-days of getting vaccinated, but the CDC did not consider someone fully vaccinated until 14-days AFTER the 2nd dose of the Pfizer and Moderna jab. The majorly of people died before that 14 day mark. They never got counted. You understand what that means, right? Far more people/children died because of those jabs. What they did… is unforgivable.

Good morning! ☕️ Like many of you, the first thing I think of when I wake up is, what the hell have I missed? Craziest timeline evah. 😁

Do not ever doubt President Trump and his political power. Fuck around, find out.

He's one of 3 I'm aware of who call themselves patriots while shilling for liars, thieves and traitors

And the same for wind turbines. You can't recycle most of this. So much for "renewable" energy when you waste resources to make it.

@CynicalPublius It gets better each time you watch it too. You'll catch more things. Especially after reading the books. They did an excellent job keeping faith to the book and threw quite a few nods to it in the movie in subtle ways.

So I watched Project Hail Mary last night and REALLY enjoyed it--I highly recommend. (No, I have not read the book yet, but now I will.) This is movie is apparently a box office smash. What mystifies me is how Hollywood completely misses how most Americans yearn for this kind of story in their movies. It's such an easy formula to follow: 1. Hero's journey. 2. Charismatic leading man (or woman). 3. Thoughtful plot and writing that make the viewer think. 4. No DEI, no political messaging of any kind. 5. Interpersonal story of love and sacrifice between the main characters. 6. High adventure. 7. Happy ending. It's such an easy formula to follow, and it was once the norm in Hollywood. How did they manage to lose sight of this and destroy their own industry?

@joelange Don't give up entire hope. I had friends help me out after a few downturns and it really helped me. I was then able to return the favor and pay it forward to others. But I always was a good tenant/guest and they were free to review my room etc. as I kept it orderly and clean.

Just a heads up, so people don’t think something is wrong. Probably won’t be on X much this week. My family flies in today to visit us at our new place for the first time. Been really busy this last week preparing the place for them. Didn’t help that the daughter of a friend of ours, who was renting our tiny house, absolutely trashed the place. I really can’t understand some people. We did her a favor, charged her almost nothing for rent and we paid all utilities because we were trying to help her. Didn’t even charge her a deposit. We’ve cleaned three bags of garbage, had to clean absolutely everything and I’ve had to completely paint the entire place again. Her and her boyfriend were only in there for four months. No more renters. It’s now a permanent guest house for visitors. Sorry about the complaining. I just needed to vent. I really don’t understand how people can not respect other people and appreciate a favor when it’s offered. Rant over.

I actually agree with probably 90% of this post, and I respect the hell out of this creator. I also agree that carnivore has become wildly overcomplicated online in many ways. That being said, I’d like to offer a different perspective, especially for women 35+. A lot of us are not coming into carnivore metabolically healthy. We’re coming in after decades of yo-yo dieting, chronic restriction, binge eating, insulin resistance, hormonal dysfunction, perimenopause/menopause, chronic stress, inflammation, and years of being told to ignore our hunger signals. So yes, in theory, “eat the steak and butter and move on with your life” sounds beautifully simple. And eventually for many people, it DOES become that simple. But for a lot of women, there’s a healing and adaptation phase first. That’s why so many women quit in the beginning. Not because they’re weak or doing it wrong, but because their bodies are deeply dysregulated when they start. This is also why I personally talk so much about things like electrolytes, hunger signaling, hormones, inflammation, nervous system regulation, and eating enough. Not to overcomplicate carnivore, but because these are the exact struggles I see over and over again from women in my DMs and comment section. And honestly? I’m still very much a “keep it simple” carnivore creator. I eat a LOT of ground beef, eggs, butter, bacon, and affordable cuts because that’s realistic for many people. Not everyone can afford ribeyes twice a day. So overall, I absolutely agree with the spirit of this post. I just think there’s an important layer to the conversation when it comes to women’s bodies, especially women over 35 who are trying to heal years of metabolic and hormonal dysfunction💞

Hollywood should stop adapting classic stories if they lack respect for the source material and can’t be faithful to the lore. Nobody wants Woke Odyssey. Nobody wants Woke Harry Potter. Nobody wants Woke Lord of the Rings. What people want is for stories to be respected. If that’s too much to ask for, leave things alone to age gracefully.

Let’s get it clear once and for all. It’s not about race, folks. That’s a Democrat trick. It’s about CULTURE. Am I a racist? Absolutely not. Am I a culturalist? Unequivocally, yes. If you can’t assimilate to this culture, our values, our laws, and our traditions, get out.

“STOP THE DOOM SCROLL… AND PRAY.” 🙏 @JonathanRoumie, who portrays Jesus in The Chosen, delivers a powerful message on faith, prayer, and why America’s greatest need isn’t found online — but in turning back to God.

@Sassafrass_84 Definite increase in lack of empathy etc. and I believe the shots and lockdowns etc. contributed. People are also becoming more aware of abusive people and not tolerating it or ignoring it as much. Social media is a big part of both of these.

Just out of curiosity, has there been an increase in occurrences of narcissism since 2019, which could potentially be linked to the vaccines? I have noticed a lack of empathy and compassion in individuals. Thoughts?

@Sassafrass_84 Have read the book many times and was delighted how awesome the movie was as well. I highly recommend watching it more than once as you will catch much more each time, especially if you read the book as there's little things from the book in there here and there.

I am watching Project Hail Mary with Ryan Gosling, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I suggest everybody give it a watch if you're into science and sci-fi movies.

@tracybeanz You cannot trust allopathic Rockefeller based medicine for most things anymore, especially anything that leads to you being healthier and not needing them anymore. BHRT can make a huge difference in women's health but they don't make much money off it. So they shun it.

I posted a frustrated rant at 10 PM on a Wednesday and apparently touched a nerve. Good. It needed to be touched. Here is what the responses made clear to me: 1. Women need to talk more - kindly, and openly, and honestly. Not the way some of the exchanges under this post went, but really talk. We need to share what we know. We need to stop gatekeeping our own experiences out of shame or silence or the misguided idea that struggling alone is strength. It isn't. It's ignorant. 2. The medical establishment does not take women's health seriously. At all. They don't take anything else seriously, but when it comes to women's health? Run the other direction. I have my own horror stories and the thread is full of them. The proof is how many of us are sitting alone googling symptoms that nobody ever warned us about. Holistic wellness practitioners actually help and actually care. The system we were told to trust has been failing us for a long time. It's time we change that for ourselves. I am. 3. Generational trauma is real and it is running through the replies to this post in real time. Moms repeating what they lived because it is all they knew. Daughters left to figure it out alone because their mothers were still too broken to try something different. Nobody is villainized here. But the pattern has to stop. If your first reaction to any of this was anger and defensiveness, think about that. That reaction is not about me. It is information about you, and it deserves your attention more than my post does. Think about it. I am a 45 year old woman living as clean as a person can live. Filtered water, natural everything, carnivore lifestyle. Clean soap, clean hair products, clean water, clean skincare - and this is still hitting me hard. Which means this is not a lifestyle failure in my case, and I can't imagine how people who are metabolically unwell feel. One thing I do know? Women deserve real information about what happens to their bodies. That ends with us.

My son is a network admin changing locations, backfilling his old position which they posted. Looking for an onsite CS grad. Can you guess what happened? Result > 900 resumes from India. They found their American applicant to fill the roles, but a bunch of IT dudes that they are...decided to run them through HR and AI software found nearly all of them were fake. Credentials didn't match colleges, colleges didn't offer degrees, 2 yrs master's with no undergrad, etc. Meanwhile, we have Americans who must provide transcripts and background information repeatedly passed over for positions where H1B are hiring other H1-B. It's an illusion. It's largely all corruption. It's a chip on a poker table for our politicians to trade for international agreements.

This will be the first and last time I ask to boost counts. But my mother is visiting and will be thrilled beyond belief if she wakes up in the morning and finds her follower count has gone over 100,000. @data_republican is at 99.4K followers. Can you please push her over to the 6 digits territory?