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10 years ago I was pissing in jars because I was too afraid to leave my room. Now I emcee events, run workshops, and help people reclaim their sovereignty. The distance between those two versions of me wasn't discipline. It wasn't luck. It was a complete rewrite of who I believed I was. I talk about how that actually happens — identity, attention, addiction, freedom. The real mechanics, from someone who lived the whole arc. If that resonates, follow along. And if you just want to talk — I'm always up for a conversation with an interesting person. My DMs are open. Reach out.

@ashebytes Amen 🙏

all you can do...all you can really do.. is create more than you consume

@sumedha2199 Great stuff. Keep going. If you need any tips. Let me know.

the day I get a clean unassisted pull up, it’s genuinely over for y’all.

@kmaparker @Jiggy_Bantty

@Jiggy_Bantty Weight is respectable but at some point you're going to need to train your grip, so I suggest losing the gloves even if you have to reload temporarily.

Weighing 80kg and can only lift 90kg on bench. Is it okay or needs improvement?

@madsf88 Connecting to people

answering “what do you do?” with a job title is boring. i wanna know what you do when no one’s paying you

@jadexmiura Yes💪

Bulking girls or cutting girls... be honest

I quit pornography by giving myself permission to watch as much as I wanted. I know how that sounds. Stay with me. For years I did what everyone said. Streaks. Rules. Download the blockers, delete the apps, tell a friend for accountability, don't look at anything that might trigger you. I white-knuckled my way to 14 days once. 21 another time. Relapsed every time. The NoFap community told me this was a willpower problem. That I needed more structure, more commitment, harder mode. I believed them. I tried harder. Still failed. It took me a long time to see what was actually happening. Every time I resisted, I was feeding the thing I was resisting. I was treating arousal like a fire alarm — something to be silenced immediately, suppressed, channeled into push-ups or cold showers before it got out of hand. The urgency around it kept growing. The charge kept building. The eventual release kept getting more compulsive. This is what repression does. It doesn't dissolve energy. It pressurizes it. NoFap, for all its good intentions, is just a new and improved version of sexual repression. You're not healing your relationship with your sexuality. You're trading one compulsion for another — the compulsion to use, replaced by the compulsion to abstain. Different behavior. Same unconscious driver. What actually needed to change wasn't the behavior. It was the relationship to the arousal itself. I started to notice something. When I felt aroused and immediately moved to suppress it — do something, anything, to make it stop — I wasn't the one making that choice. The subconscious program was. The reflex was. I was just along for the ride. So I tried something different. I sat with it. Not to indulge it. Not to suppress it. Just to observe what was actually happening in my body when that energy arose. Where it sat. How it moved. What it was actually asking for beneath the noise. At first it was overwhelming. That's the honest truth. Years of charge doesn't discharge quietly. But slowly — through repetition, through patience, through learning to stay present inside a feeling instead of running from it — the grip loosened. The arousal didn't disappear. But my relationship to it changed. It became information rather than emergency. Something to be curious about rather than afraid of. The pornography lost its hold not because I banned it, but because I stopped being afraid of what it stirred up in me. I stopped needing to either feed it or fight it. I could just feel it, acknowledge it, and choose. That's what sovereignty actually means. Not "I haven't watched porn in 90 days." Not another streak to count, another rule to white-knuckle your way through. Just — I am the one who decides. That's the only thing that matters.

@micheal_ws18 Working out all the time is the only way to get results.

What’s one fitness belief you had 5 years ago that makes you cringe now?

I'm looking to connect with people who genuinely enjoy helping others succeed. I don't have anything to sell you (my ICP is NOT founders or the AI tech crowd). But I can help with UX/content design/language decisions, or walk through user flows, talk through ideas, etc.

@ItsNala Always up for an authentic connection.

Just unfollowed 500 inactive accounts. If you’re still here and active, ily I’ll be following 500 cool people who interact with this post over the next 24 hours.👇

@femalebodybuil6 Coprophagia I believe🍽💩

What ?.

@Tristanrhee3 Deepfake right here👇

prove me you're not an ai

@ExtraLeahRay Sums up the way you feel during isometric holds of any kind😅

How long could YOU last 😭💪

I wanna be your first customer Share your startup in one sentence

@sflorimm Interpersonal skills "Soft Skills"

Everyone has AI now. That advantage expired fast. What's the new advantage?

@LewisHowes In Person

Texting or phone calls?

@Musclemanhh Elite genetics all day every day.

If you had to choose. Elite genetic or elite discipline?

The healthiest thing in your life can become the problem. I quit drinking. Went straight into the gym — twice a day, six days a week. Looked healthier on the outside. Still running away on the inside. The activity changed. The addiction didn't.

@BartertownC @Jainadave_ I used to think exactly the same thing broski.

@Va1iant7 @Jainadave_ The risk of snapping your shyt up is not worth whatever you think your getting from this lift

Do you think deadlifts are overrated?

@CaleCrypto 🤣🤣🤣

Adults can learn more from kids than kids can learn from adults When a kid wants to make a new friend they just run up to another kid and say “wanna play?”