The Iconic Self

@jackmoses0 This is cute advice, but a lot of people were just surviving childhood, so reach might be a little more limited than you think.

A hint at your incarnation task is what you were doing naturally in childhood. Before programming kicked in and the world told you how you should act, you naturally gravitated towards certain activities without effort. These natural proclivities point towards your spiritual essence. Others would call this your life’s work, your zone of genius, or your domain of mastery. But from the perspective of the soul, it is why you came into this life. When I was a kid, I gravitated towards a few activities without being told to: - Building forts and lincoln logs - Writing stories and books - Playing sports with friends I never did so out of obligation or force. They were natural express expressions of my innate nature. Through spiritual work and self remembrance, I have arrived at a current expression that matches the nature of my childhood. I know deepening into building structures, writing, and bringing people together in community and playing sports / music are huge parts of my soul’s task. And because I’m doing these things now, I live a life that gratefully feels incredibly aligned. So take an objective look at your childhood. What were you doing naturally? What did you gravitate towards without being told what to do? What could you get lost in for hours — an activity where you never feel like you were forcing action? These expressions hints at the natural essence of your soul. Your task is to remember who you were before society told you to be somebody else, an engineer your life so you can live in complete alignment with why your soul came here in the first place.

Manifestation, 10 year goals, affirmation... All of these are a huge cope for not taking action... You can tell yourself you're a stud in the mirror every morning, But your subconscious knows whether you're truly in the arena... You can't finesse your psyche.

@luluneverstops @JackKrucial I’d take this a step further by saying imagination and belief are nothing without the identity to support it. The focus should not be on the thing, but on becoming the person who gets the thing. As he says, you can’t outperform your psyche. Self-identity precedes everything.

yes and no. the manifestation without action is cope. but manifestation as the precursor to action is different. you need the image before you can build it. the problem is when the visualization becomes the thing instead of the fuel for the thing. at some point you have to leave the mirror and enter the arena. but once you’re in the arena, the vision you built starts working for you. the belief facilitates action. then the action creates feedback in the arema. that feedback strengthens the belief and the cycle compounds. the manifestation was meant to make the work feel possible before you had proof

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

Women could benefit greatly from a foray into the male-coded world of self-development. The bros are out here with literal handbooks for life while women are still being hoodwinked by manifestation coaches, celebrity doctors and messages from chanelled beings 🤦🏼‍♀️

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

Forget the vision board, the affirmations, the scripting and all the ‘laws’ of manifestation. If you’re not focused on becoming the person who has the things, then you’ll never get them. Or if by chance you do get them, they won’t last. Identity precedes outcome every time.

I think “burnout” is the result of chasing things you don’t actually want.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on why searching for your "true self" is a mistake: Žižek argues that the pursuit of a true inner self is ultimately misguided. Deep introspection, he suggests, often reveals only disturbing or chaotic fantasies. "Don't look for your inner self. You'll only find deep shit." Instead of searching for an authentic core, Žižek believes genuine personal growth comes from embracing an external mask, a chosen social role. "The only way to overcome yourself is to identify with your mask." To illustrate this, he references the 1960 Rossellini film General Della Rovere. The film tells the story of a poor man in occupied Italy who is caught by the Nazis. Because he resembles a famous resistance leader, General Della Rovere, the Nazis, who have already killed the real General, force him to pretend to be the General in prison to trick the resistance. But something unexpected happens. The man identifies so deeply with the role that he refuses to cooperate with the Nazis. He is ultimately shot publicly as General Della Rovere. Žižek calls this "good alienation." The man's "real self" as a poor beggar mattered less than his complete identification with the heroic persona. Through that total commitment to an outward role, he achieved a kind of moral greatness his "authentic" self never could. The takeaway is counterintuitive but powerful: true freedom doesn't emerge from endlessly excavating your private, internal world. It emerges when you prioritise your outward actions and commitments. When you fully commit to becoming something greater than what you started as. What matters is what you choose to embody.

@erichustls How to saturate social media with mindless rubbish and ruin the internet forever. This is precisely why everyone (with a brain and a soul) is tapping out.

If I wanted to quit my job & use AI to get rich by Summer, here's exactly what I'd do: 1. Start a faceless Instagram page before the week is over. Not next month. Not after you "research more." This week.

@CCPISASSH0E Only Americans continue to make it about colour and race. Literally nobody else in the whole wide world sees colour as an issue anymore. Grow up!

I have seen TONS of videos from black people talking about white people doing the “grin” while walking past them. I am here to tell you, I do that “grin” when I’m walking past literally every stranger I come across. Black. White. Asian. Literally everyone is getting it.

@michelle_byoung We read Flowers in the Attic, every Judy Blume novel and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre all between 10-12 years old… and that was our standard entertainment.

Nah it was VC Andrews with the flowers in the attic…

@newstart_2024 I grew up in the sun, chronically exposed and sunburnt my whole life. Occasionally we would put natural zinc on our nose if we were going to be out in the sun for a long while. My friend’s parents who were doctors and slathered themselves in SPF50 both died from sun cancer 🥴

Dr. Roger Seheult just shared a mind-blowing Swedish study (Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort, ~30,000 women followed 20+ years): Women who actively sought sun exposure had dramatically lower death rates from cancer, heart disease, and everything else. The jaw-dropper? Sun avoiders faced roughly double the overall mortality compared to sun-lovers. Even heavy smokers who got plenty of sun had mortality rates similar to non-smokers who shunned it. Sunlight linked to longer life—despite skin cancer risks—likely via vitamin D, nitric oxide, immune boosts, and more. Yet mainstream advice still screams "avoid the sun." This flips the "sun = danger" narrative hard. Are you getting enough midday sun (safely), or still slathering on SPF 50+ year-round? What's your routine & how's it feeling? Honest replies below—let's compare real results.

@TylerAlterman My daughter (27) is autistic. Since around 6 months old we observed her communicating with unseen others which she later referred to as ‘The Gang’. She can’t explain any further but to this day she still hangs out ‘telepathically’ with the gang.

The Telepathy Tapes claims that many nonspeaking autists have a psychic chatroom they go to called “The Hill.” Quite a claim. Do any of you know any nonspeaking autists who you can ask about this?

@heavensbvnny Don’t have kids, for one. Also, be single.

can someone please explain to me how someone gets 8 hours of sleep, 10,000 steps a day, goes to work, maintains good hygiene, cleans their house, exercises, takes care of their animals, and has time for hobbies and socializing? cause i feel like this is also propaganda.

@Solyricon There is no sign. Just stay single.

In your personal experience, what is an early sign that a man is manipulative, a bad person, and likely to be abusive, but is hiding it?

@MmisterNobody This is assuming you’ve got good parents. I couldn’t care less about either of them.

Once your mom and dad pass away, nothing will ever be the same in this life. Absolutely nothing.

@uncledoomer Give any child a book. Boy or girl. Give them all the books and watch them!

kind of crazy how being given one of these books as a boy growing up basically guarantees youll turn out smart and technically proficient in a variety of fields

@schizohustler Let’s be real: all men are gay.

got to know a 22 year old onlyfans twink who owns a 3000 sqft home in switzerland and he was telling me about how he would take me out to fancy parties and i was like what world are we living in where the venture capitalist is a sugar baby to a faggot

@nicoleshedtwt I’ve probably eaten more pears than the average person and I can’t explain why. I don’t necessarily love them but I have given them a good hot go and I don’t know why. I mean, I like the look of them?

Who the fuck eats pears? I never see anyone eat or even talk about pears. People will talk about every single fucking fruit in existence except for pears. I hear more people talk about durians of all things. Does no one fucking like pears!?