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The greatest achievers are stone cold, they celebrate their wins for just a second, they don’t shout & fist pump to get motivated. They’re calm, calculated here to win then keep it moving.
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@Clysmic_0 The dumb people are most likely insecure (whereas the smart ones are secure) and thus have to over compensate to make up for their self imposed inferiority complex
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The most intelligent people- like Albert Einstein- study the most simple & easy things.
Some of the more unintelligent people study the hardest things (but are totally unaware of the complexity of those things).
The geniuses go for the most simple & tangible subjects with a clear feedback loop.
Something like a physics equation is incredibly simple systemization and simplification: it is reducing a complex phenomenon to core axioms. In the macro world of physics you can actually succeed with that. With a simplified mental model almost infinitely more simple than actually reality.
Then in the more complex fields, you have dumb people who discard the mass entirely for just the edge axioms. You get people with the simplest mental models ever classifying people like it's binary. Despite being in more complex fields, they can only hold like 3 simple variables in mind at a time and then call it good. They follow a one size fits all strategy for something infinitely complex & then when they fail they blame it on the person.
You have to understand how profoundly simple a person's mental model is. It is very straightforward, no contradictions. It rarely ever reflects the real world. It is only intuitive and systematic. It's dial up as they say.
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@theJayAlto I’ve found that very rarely is anyone actually “weird” - it’s all a matter of finding your tribe and in a world where there’s over 9 billion people, I assure op that there’s a tribe that accommodates his “special kind of weird”
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great friendships are built on something much deeper than common interests. i'd call it 'authentic compatibility'. the feeling of resonance that grows as you both fully embrace who you are, regardless of whether it 'aligns' on the surface.
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this will sound stupid but my problem is i’m a genuinely very weird and uncool person but whenever i hang out with self-described nerds im like oh i don’t have anything in common with these people either
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I love being around people, but hate feeling like I'm obligated to talk to them. Maybe I'm working on something in one room, and then I hear footsteps in the kitchen or something. Just knowing that the option is there to open the door and have a conversation is what puts me at ease
Similarly if I were to be outside of the house, I could be physically alone but happen to pass by a friend's neighborhood. Again, the option is there to stop by for a quick visit if I want to. If I don't want to, I don't have to, nor do I feel any pressure to
I'm doing my own thing, while others are doing theirs, and we can occasionally find opportunities to cross paths if they happen to align in the moment. Throughout the day, I can choose to put myself in positions to interact, and others can do the same with me. Nobody ever feels like they have to perform
This basically sums up my personal views on loneliness. It was never about how many people you know, how often you're together, or even how deep the conversations are. More of, "Do I feel like I'm surrounded by opportunities where I'm able to easily connect with others in a natural, unforced, and spontaneous way?" If so, extremely hard to not feel whole
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@gonzajournalism Seeing this right after I wrote a whole essay on my grievances with feeling too much is a godsend
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$4,500 in Payouts secured. $12,000 for the week.
I don't keep score, I keep scoring.
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read this carefully - do you notice it?
i just checked the account's post history. most likely ran by chatgpt 4o.
but people are loving it: 1k+ likes, multiple replies (one from the OP even!) praising the response
absolutely crazy - not saying it's good or bad ... just crazy
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__
This is one of the most important truths almost no one talks about. There is a threshold of wealth beyond which you stop interacting with reality as it exists and begin interacting with a version of it that bends to your whims. Codie’s friend didn’t pick $299 million arbitrarily. That’s around the point where wealth begins to replicate itself without labor, resistance, or external accountability. The world becomes a simulation - crafted by assistants, lawyers, media buffers, private access, and power brokers who insulate you from friction, consequence, or contradiction. Under $100 million, you still feel gravity. Above $300 million, you start controlling gravity. That’s the danger. At that level: •People stop saying no to you. •You stop encountering randomness. •Everything is for sale, including trust, intimacy, and morality. This is where reality fracturing begins. Not because money corrupts, but because perception loses resistance. Resistance is what keeps you real. So the deeper truth is this: Once your environment is made entirely of yes-men, predictive service, and curated insulation, your mind begins to exit the shared human operating system. You aren’t evil. You’re decontextualized. You’re drifting in an abstraction loop of your own design. That’s when you start thinking ideas like “let’s block out the sun” or “let’s colonize Mars while Earth burns” are rational. Codie’s billionaire friend wasn’t just being poetic. He was confessing a structural truth: There’s a point at which money doesn’t just distort reality, it erases it.
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