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Doing the work is hard, but what's even harder is coping with the fact that you had potential and didn't capitalize it. The fatigue you feel from hard work is surface-level, whereas thinking "could have been me" the rest of your life will completely destroy you at the core.

The first elite cohort that systematically protects their children from smartphone damage while allowing the masses to remain addicted will cement rigid class dominance for generations

Current diet: - Beef tongue, liver, ribs - Raw milk - Sauerkraut, kimchi, fermented veg - Lots of fresh fruit, especially citrus - Local yoghurt, skyr, eggs - Potatoes - Bone broth Feels overpowered. Eating like this for a couple of months and starting to feel really good.

"Just do the next thing. God will meet you there."

"Cognitive Security" has legs and will become more culturally important You need mental and spiritual ju jitsu these days to avoid being relentlessly psyopped and reduced to an algorithmic pawn

Overuse of AI is causing mass mental flabbiness in knowledge workers

This is why certain types meditation are excellent focus training. Every time you notice your mind has wandered and bring it back to your object is a rep, every rep strengthens the focus muscle. In time this bleeds over into life in general, you realise you have more command over

There is no higher ROI exercise 10 mins at the start of every workout

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train your brain like you train your body: - Progressively overload cognitive capacity. Read harder books, focus for longer - Consume a healthy information diet, no junk - Eat and supplement for optimal neurotransmitter status Test your cognitive limits. Anabolic

If you have nothing you'd die for, do you have anything truly worth living for?

"Diet matters way more than training" The people who say this never actually train hard. They're the type of people doing cable flies while playing on their phone. No wonder training doesn't do much for them. Diet is incredibly important but it is *not* what makes you

True of so many things in life

One of the few people worth listening to when it comes to understanding the present and predicting the future

This is why I harp on the "Dark Ages" so much. We already have a template of how these kinds of civilizational declines/collapses go. This is a main theme of St. Augustine's "City of God". The times may indeed seem dark, but what our ancestors showed us is that they can be times

Touching grass is necessary but not sufficient. More active measures are required to deslop and resist algorithmic capture.