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Between these two photos were setbacks, breaks, and days I almost quit. Losing weight is hard. Keeping it off while life gets busy, stressful, and messy is harder. The goal was never just losing weight. It was building a life I can actually repeat.

@gvofeyii Running taught me the same lesson. Every sport looks easier from the outside. Until you actually train for it and realize how much skill, patience and consistency it requires.

You do not realize how weak you are as a man until you learn a combat; boxing, taekwondo, kickboxing etc We overestimate our strengths like mad Cus you really cannot fight!

@whoistife_x Perfect timing on Global Running Day 😄 I used to think cardio vs lifting was the question. Now I think the bigger question is how to combine both so we can stay strong and keep moving for decades.

both are good. as long as it’s low intensity.

@TumiTheTruth Genetics matter. But I think people underestimate what years of consistency can build. Training, recovery, nutrition, sleep. The basics are boring until you see someone doing them for decades.

lot of old school bodybuilders are genetic freaks genetic freaks today have chosen professional sports, more money there Bodybuilding today is ran by folk with mid genetics and think Abusing juice is what makes an elite physique Super juiced with very ok bodies

@omgsidewalks This applies to everything in life. Training, health, relationships. The moment we stop protecting our ego and start looking at our own patterns, real growth begins.

i recently saw a girl on tiktok who said “accountability is so important to me. nobody's perfect, but don't try to flip the script and make my reaction the issue when your actions lit the match” i felt this to the core.

@dostoevesque Running taught me this lesson many times. You can't control the weather, the pace of others, or how the day feels. You can only control your preparation, effort, and response. Peace comes from focusing there.

Stressing over what's not in your control is like sitting in traffic and trying to steer every other car, truck, scooter, and even the road barriers. We spend so much of our lives agonizing over things that were never ours to hold in the first place. It is a strange, self inflicted kind of misery. You end up exhausting yourself trying to force a shape onto the world that it simply won't take, and in that scramble, you lose the only thing that actually belongs to you: your own steady presence. Your mind fills with tension and wastes energy on battles you can never win. Meanwhile, Life like traffic has its own flow and regulates itself without your intervention. It moves, stops, and sorts itself out no matter what you do. You can rage, honk, and grip the wheel till your knuckles hurt. The traffic does not care. It does not need your control. The only vehicle you command is your own. Your attention, your attitude, your next action, and how you see the jam. Once you accept that most of the traffic is not yours to manage, the tension drops. You drive your car better. Calm and clear. Master the one car you are in. The rest is just noise and movement that was never yours to direct.

@NewMentalities I learned this from endurance training. Your body usually has more capacity than your mind believes. But progress comes from patience, consistency and recovery. Not just pushing harder.

Nothing outside you can finish you. It can only wait for you to do it yourself.

@anymanfitness I used to chase harder goals and bigger challenges. Now I realize the “boring” things are actually the foundation: sleep well move daily eat better recover properly Simple is not easy. That’s why it works.

Being 'boring' is the best way to live a good life - Get up with the sun - Go to bed by 10 pm - Take long walks every day - Drink water, for the most part - Have conversations with real people - Take breaks from social media - Lift weights and do the same workouts weekly

@HaterReport This applies outside sports too. Sometimes not knowing how hard something is allows you to start. Experience teaches you strategy. Curiosity gives you courage.

Nah man they really gotta stop letting Malika Andrews & Taylor Rooks do these interviews lmaooo Dudes turn into poets or philosophers EVERY time 😂 🤣

@NBA__Courtside After several marathons, I learned confidence is built long before race day. The race only reveals the preparation you already did. Less doubt comes from keeping promises to yourself.

LeBron James on why preparation kills self-doubt: “There’s no way the human mind in competitive sports or in life in general that you just don’t have self-doubt, right? And that’s okay. And I think for me how you manage those thoughts is by one if whatever that you’re doing. Whatever field that you’re in and ours happen to be professional sports, if you know that you’re giving the time to the process and you’re putting in the work to in order to get the results, then you’re okay with whatever happens, the win, the loss, the draw, whatever the case may be. The uncomfortable nights would happen if you did not put in the work and you’re not seeing results. That is more self-doubt than anything.” (Via @mindthegamepod)

@TheShiftJournal I used to think discipline meant pushing harder. Now I think it means showing up smarter. Training, recovery, sleep. The small things repeated for years change everything.

You can’t achieve anything worthwhile without ‘Discipline’

@puregrinding23 Training is where you send the signal. Recovery is where your body answers. Took me years to truly understand this.

週5でジム行ってるのに体が変わらない奴、だいたい食事量が少ない。 筋肉はジムの外で作るもの。 どれだけ追い込んでも、食わなきゃ筋肉はつかない。

@itsolelehmann Interesting how AI is changing the way we manage information. But collecting knowledge was never the hard part. Turning what we learn into action is where the real value is.

luckily bookmark rot is an easy problem to fix now here's how to turn every X bookmark you've ever saved into a second brain your agent has full context on: 1. export your bookmarks. i use twitter-web-exporter (free userscript) or the BookmarkSave extension. you get one file with every bookmark + the full text + the author + the link 2. drop that file into a folder. if you already run an llm wiki / obsidian vault, drop it straight in so your bookmarks join the rest of your knowledge 3. point your agent at the folder (claude code, codex, hermes, whatever you run) and tell it: "read this export and turn every bookmark into its own markdown note with the original link and a couple of topic tags" that's it, your agent has read all of it. now you can ask "what have i saved about pricing" or "pull everything i bookmarked on claude code" and it answers across the whole pile takes maybe 10 minutes after that they actually get used, and every new bookmark folds into the same brain instead of rotting in a tab you never open again

@hissingchoir Running taught me this too. Not every mile needs a pace goal. Sometimes the slow, easy ones are the moments we need the most.

@DanWolken Every sport has its own kind of suffering. Running taught me the hardest opponent is usually yourself. The body wants to stop long before the mind gives up. That mental battle is what makes athletes special.

It’s part of the reason I am so fascinated with it. Mentally and physically it’s the hardest sport in the world bar none. What it demands, what it takes is crazy - and then you can be the 45th best in the world in a sport hundreds of millions play and nobody cares.

@anishmoonka The strange thing about life: When we are young, we want time to move faster. When we get older, we learn that some ordinary moments were actually the special ones. Maybe growing up is learning to appreciate the chapter we are in.

A 16-year-old finished his first shift, got in the car, and told his dad his childhood was over. He's not being dramatic. That sad, heavy feeling on the drive home is one of the most studied moments in growing up, and his brain will keep this night for the rest of his life. Start with the sadness. The emotional part of a teenager's brain is already running full tilt. The part that handles patience and perspective, the quiet voice that says "relax, this is just a phase," is still under construction, and it keeps building into a person's twenties. So a 16-year-old feels everything an adult feels, at full volume, minus the brakes. His sadness wasn't softness. His brain just isn't finished yet. A psychologist named Erik Erikson spent his life studying these exact years. He said the whole job of being a teenager, from about 12 to 18, is answering one question: who am I? And he put work right in the middle of that answer. A first job takes that giant, floating question and gives it a hard edge. You clock in for your first shift, and just like that, you're not somebody's kid anymore. You're a person with a name tag. Teenagers also feel things far bigger than they are. Back in 1967, a psychologist named David Elkind pinned down why. Almost every teenager is quietly certain their feelings are one of a kind, that nobody who has ever lived has felt this exact thing. So "my childhood is over" doesn't arrive like a small sad thought. It arrives like the end of the world. Feeling like the main character in some enormous story is just part of being that age. The job is also changing who he is, even though he couldn't feel it. Researchers once pooled 44 studies, more than 120,000 people, to figure out which life events change a person the most. The first job landed near the top, right alongside getting married and getting divorced. The work seeps in, and you come out a slightly different person than the one who walked in. His brain is going to hang onto this night, too. Ask anyone over 40 for their sharpest memories, and a strange number come from one stretch of life, roughly ages 10 to 30. The ones that last are almost always firsts, like a first kiss or a first car. Whatever you live through while you're still figuring out who you are gets written in permanent ink, and a first shift at 16 is about as "first" as it gets. So he was right. Something did end last night. A first paycheck is one of the cleanest lines we have between being a kid and whatever comes after, and most of us walked across it without looking down. He looked down. That tired, sad feeling in the car was him standing right on the line, feeling it under his feet.

@TARSRel0aded Life moves in seasons. Childhood teaches us to dream. Adulthood teaches us responsibility. The challenge is growing older without losing the curiosity we had when we were young.

My 16yr old son finished his first shift at his first job last night. Picked him up at 10pm and he looked beat. He was a little sad on the way home. I asked what was wrong. He said he felt like he’s growing up too fast and that his childhood is over now.

@Paamee_Ortiz Running taught me this. The goal is not always to go faster. Sometimes slowing down is what allows you to go further, longer. Pace matters in running. Pace matters in life too.

Emma Watson comparte el mejor consejo que ha recibido "Alguien a quien respeto mucho y a quien suelo pedirle consejos me dijo: "Emma, creo que si hicieras el 90% de lo que quieres hacer al 50% de la velocidad, la vida sería mucho mejor". "Me quedé como wow, ¿el 50% de la velocidad y solo el 90% de lo que quiero hacer? Y él dijo: "Creo que eso es lo mínimo, para ser honesto"- "A menudo tengo que recordarme que no se trata de llegar rápidamente a algún lugar. Simplemente no es el punto. Las cosas están destinadas a suceder con un cierto ritmo"

@aakashgupta My recovery data taught me something interesting: More effort doesn’t always mean better results. Sometimes slowing down is what allows you to perform at a higher level.

The reason this advice works sits in your dopamine system, and almost nobody connects the two. When you push to do everything at maximum pace, you hold your nervous system in sympathetic activation. That means elevated cortisol, narrowed attention, and a prefrontal cortex starved of the exact resources you need to do good work. The speed that feels like ambition runs on the same circuitry as low-grade threat. Here's the part most people miss. Dopamine doesn't only drive motivation, it calibrates your perception of time. The more aroused and dopaminergic your state, the faster your internal clock runs, which is why a frantic week feels like you are permanently behind. A lot of the urge to go faster is just a readout of a dysregulated state, not evidence you are actually short on time. Then the reward loop compounds it. Every goal you hit at a full sprint delivers a dopamine peak followed by a dip below baseline. Chase enough of them fast enough and the baseline itself drops, so nothing satisfies, so you sprint harder trying to feel something. That is the loop she is describing without naming it. Running 90% of your goals at 50% speed quietly reverses all of it. You shift toward parasympathetic tone, your dopamine baseline recovers, and the prefrontal cortex finally has the bandwidth to produce the quality you were sprinting past. Slow is the speed at which the dopamine system actually stays calibrated.

@omgsidewalks Growing older taught me one thing: Having parents who still care about you is already a privilege. Time with them is something money can never buy.

Having parents who still help you financially even as an adult.

@tomojinji Happy to hear Tokyo is calm again 🙏 I visited Tokyo for marathon before and still remember how beautiful the city feels, even on rainy days 🇯🇵

東京の天気は小雨☔️ 台風が通過して、東京はやっと雨や風が落ちついてきたよ。たくさんのコメント本当にありがとう👍