Shamans were the first programmers. They installed a “software... update” that transformed how we think and solve problems. Through ritual practices, like... • Sleep deprivation • Intense rhythmic activities (like dancing) • Social isolation • Psychedelics ...they disrupted ordinary thought patterns to break mental frames. But why did they want to break mental frames? Because your brain is incredible at pattern recognition...but this superpower has a dark side: Once you see a pattern it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it. You become trapped in your own mental models. This reveals something crucial: The art of systematically breaking patterns to see reality anew. Being told to "be innovative" or "think differently" isn't enough…you need practical techniques to disrupt your normal patterns of thinking. This is what shamans understood intuitively thousands of years ago.show more

Your brain physically rewires itself every time you think... a thought. Donald Hebb stumbled onto this principle in 1949 while studying memory formation in lab rats. He noticed something that should have been impossible: neurons that activated simultaneously began forming stronger connections over time, creating dedicated pathways where none existed before. Scientists called it Hebb's Law. The rest of us call it "neurons that fire together wire together." What Hebb discovered wasn't just a mechanism for learning. He had found the biological foundation of human transformation. Every habit, every skill, every automatic response in your body exists as a neural pathway carved by repetition. The route from your bedroom to your kitchen becomes a superhighway in your brain because you walk it every morning. The sequence of movements you use to tie your shoes becomes hardwired because you've done it thousands of times. But, this same process builds your personality. That tendency to check your phone when you feel anxious? Neural pathway. The automatic urge to argue when someone challenges your opinion? Neural pathway. The way you deflect compliments or seek validation or avoid difficult conversations? All neural pathways, strengthened every time you repeat the pattern. Your brain cannot distinguish between physical actions and mental habits. Both carve grooves in your neural architecture. Both become automatic responses when triggered. Both feel like "who you are" because they happen without conscious choice. But, most people spend decades accidentally building neural superhighways to behaviors they claim they want to change. You say you want to be confident, then practice self doubt every day. You say you want to be productive, then strengthen procrastination pathways by checking social media when work feels hard. You say you want authentic relationships, then wire yourself for people pleasing by avoiding conflict whenever it arises. The brain observes your actions and assumes this must be what you want. So it builds infrastructure to make these patterns easier to execute in the future. Neuroplasticity research reveals something most people find deeply unsettling: there is no "fixed self." The personality you think defines you is just a collection of neural pathways that have been reinforced more often than others. The pathways you travel most frequently become the widest roads. The thoughts you think most often become the loudest voices. The behaviors you repeat most consistently become your automatic responses. But the same mechanism that locks you into patterns can unlock you from them. Every time you catch yourself mid pattern and choose differently, you send a signal to your brain that the old pathway might not be serving you anymore. Every time you practice a new response instead of defaulting to the familiar one, you begin building new neural infrastructure. The process feels awkward at first because you're literally walking through mental wilderness, creating trails where no trails existed. But repetition turns trails into paths, paths into roads, roads into superhighways. This is why changing habits through willpower alone fails. You're trying to muscle through established neural superhighways instead of building alternative routes. The old pathways don't disappear just because you want them to. They have to be replaced through deliberate rewiring. The most sophisticated meditation practitioners in the world understand this intuitively. They don't just sit quietly hoping for peace. They systematically rewire their brains by repeatedly choosing calm responses instead of reactive ones. Ten thousand hours of practice creates neural pathways so robust that serenity becomes their default state. Professional athletes do the same thing with performance. They don't just practice their sport. They practice the mental patterns that support excellence until confidence, focus, and resilience become neurologically hardwired. The implications of neuroplasticity extend far beyond personal development. Every social bias, every cultural assumption, every automatic judgment you make exists as neural wiring built through repetition. The way you unconsciously categorize people, the assumptions you make about different groups, the stereotypes that feel "obviously true" are all learned pathways that can be unlearned. Societies change when enough individuals rewire their neural patterns around new ways of thinking and behaving. The brain you have right now is not the brain you're stuck with. It's the brain you've trained through repetition. Every thought you choose, every action you take, every response you practice is a vote for the kind of neural architecture you want to build. Most people cast these votes unconsciously, then wonder why their life feels automatic and unchangeable. The moment you realize you're the architect of your own neural patterns is the moment real transformation becomes possible. Your neurons are firing right now as you read this. What are you choosing to wire them toward?show more

They were made to see this, we were made... to see this, then made to see the people not moving out of line. I'm of the opinion the entire thing was staged. The person being taken out, the EMTs, and the line too. So you'd think it was your own idea to question why they wouldn't move out of line after seeing something startling like that. Like inception. Planting an idea but it has to feel organic or it doesn't take.show more

you need to tattoo this Boris Cherny quote into... your brain: "coding is the easy part, it's knowing the domain that's the hard part" every week a new startup drops a launch video saying they "killed influencer marketing" or something but they don't get it. creating the thing is NOT the hard part it's understanding what thing you have to create, at what moment, and in what way and that takes years of pattern recognition from actually being in the arena and seeing what works AI can't shortcut that for youshow more

I want this to hit home for you today.... You might be reading this knowing you’ve been putting yourself last. Maybe you’re coming out of a tough breakup. Maybe you’re a mom just trying to find a moment for yourself. Maybe you’ve worked your whole life and the thought of adding one more thing feels exhausting. Or maybe you just don’t feel the urge to do more at all. We see the word motivation thrown around everywhere, but here’s the truth. Motivation doesn’t solve problems. It’s that spark of excitement at the start, but when it fades, you’re left with two choices. You either build discipline, or you slip back into old habits. And if right now you don’t feel like you have the strength to want better for yourself, think about the people who love you. They want you here for the long run. They want you at birthdays, at weddings, at family moments that matter. Your partner wants to see you healthy so you can build a future together and pass those habits down to your children. Maybe your reason to change doesn’t start with you, but it can become about you once you decide to try. When you are ready to take charge of your health and transform your lifestyle, working with me is an investment in your best self. ➡️Click the link apply & start your journey Your future self will thank you for the commitment you make today. 💞show more

When your pain, fear or resentment is consuming you,... no one else can pull you out of the dark, because you ARE the dark. Your mindset. Your thoughts. YOU CONTROL where you work & live, who you live with, what you eat & drink, what time you sleep, how you think, how you feel, how you spend your energy & what you do with your spare time. YOU! These things may feel out of your control but they're not. They're all things we can change if we're unhappy but our MINDSET has us convinced we can't, by playing on our fears of the unknown & our own weaknesses. 'What if I can't find other work?' 'What if I don't find anyone else?' 'I don't have time to cook!' 'I don't have time to workout!' 'I have nothing to feel happy about' 'I can't sleep!' Your life will not change, unless YOU do! You need to change your mindset! No one can do it for you. You can CHOOSE to see silver linings OR just the possibility of rain. You can CHOOSE your HARD... - Struggle through a workout vs struggle to look at yourself & how unhealthy you've become - Struggle to learn a new skill vs struggle in a job you hate. Trying to see beyond your unhappiness, 'bad luck' & bad choices is confronting & can feel impossible...BUT it isn't!! It's possible! Not over night but gradually...taking ONE DAY AT A TIME! Be kind to yourself! Changing your mindset & working on overhauling years of negative thought processes is far from easy but in doing so, you'll reclaim your POWER & take back control of your own happiness. Choosing to go out into the sunshine to drink a cuppa (instead of staying cooped up indoors) won't make your problems disappear...BUT it gives you a few seconds of CALM to REFOCUS your thoughts & a dose of Vitamin D & fresh air, while feeling the warmth of the sun on your skin. In making that choice, you reinforce your self-worth: you deserve time for yourself & you deserve to feel good. It's a simple choice that can completely change how you feel for the better, even if just for a moment. In time, your days can become full of those moments & you'll no longer need to look for the light in the dark. You will BE the light! The beacon of your own happiness ❤️🫂 #mindsetshow more

The new Product Page Header image in the App... Store will not matter. First you need users to actually want to enter your App Store listing. And the reality is that a lot of users NEVER enter the listing. They search for something, see the app in the search results and download it directly from there. So the important update here is the new Search Results image. It's an app banner inside the App Store search results. And you should think about it as a persuasive ad. COPYWRITING will be what matters. Not the fancy "branding". Users are searching because they want an answer to something. Your creative needs to give them that answer immediately. And this becomes even more important with Apple Ads. You can pay to appear for the keyword, but your creative still needs to convince the user that your app is the answer they were searching for.show more

This is why all of the people you love... are struggling to pay rent or feed themselves, and are staring down the barrel of being the end of their millennia-long ancestral bloodline, as they see no mathematical possibility of being able to raise a single child, let alone the 8+ this woman will have as we are paying for all of it. If you wake up every day enraged at this system, it's because you are awake and paying attention. It has been constructed with the express purpose of sucking your life-force dry, exterminating your people, and humiliating you while doing it. And I'm sorry to break it to you...but we are not going to vote our way out of a system this rotten to its core.show more

THE BIGGEST RED PILL IN HISTORY‼️ Once you see... it, you will never unsee it. We can have all the discussions on why and how and all of that, but the first step is allowing yourself to believe what you are seeing with your own eyes. Joe Biden was never President. For me, that is an excellent starting point for us ALL to be able to have actual conversations and debates again. This is why the world must know the truth about the pause (45-47), what Joe Biden did, and why it had to be this way.show more

Watching this video makes my jaw clench. Not because... I see courage. Not because I see progress. It makes my jaw clench because I see a husband standing outside a women’s restroom while his wife is inside, and another person is demanding that he ignore what his own eyes can see. Put Democrat politics aside for a moment and think about the people you love. Imagine your wife is in that restroom. Imagine it’s your daughter, your granddaughter, your mother, or your sister. Most husbands like us, aren’t going to start debating social theories at that moment. Their first instinct is going to be the same instinct men have had for thousands of years: protect the women they love. That isn’t hatred. It isn’t fear. It’s responsibility. What makes this video so powerful is that it exposes a much bigger disagreement taking place across the country. One side believes that biological reality determines who belongs in male and female spaces. The other believes that personal identity should be the deciding factor. Those are fundamentally different starting points, and that’s why these encounters keep happening. The anger you’re seeing isn’t really about a restroom. It’s about whether ordinary people are still allowed to trust their own judgment, speak honestly about what they see, and protect the people they care about without being told they’re the problem. Millions of Americans like me, have reached the point where they are exhausted by being told that common sense is offensive. They are tired of being told that protecting women is somehow controversial. They are tired of being pressured to deny what they believe is objectively true in order to avoid criticism. That’s why videos like this resonate with so many people. They aren’t seeing a debate about a bathroom. They’re seeing a husband doing what husbands have always done: standing watch over the people entrusted to his care. And for many Americans, the line gets drawn right there. Not with my wife. Not with my daughter. Not with my family. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGrooveshow more

Dear Africans. I know you think we are cowards.... You think we have allowed Mnangagwa to rule with impunity. This is is what we face. We have been facing this for the past 45 years. The problem is, we have been doing it peacefully but met with live bullets. SADC & AU are OK with us being killed. A time will come when we are going to pick matchets and guns and chop each other like what happened in Rwanda. SADC and AU will condemn us as barbarians. Millions of us have left our country not because we desire to be in your countries. We cannot live under this perpetual suffocation. Now we see that South Africans are tired of us. We don't want to be in your countries. We want to be in Zimbabwe. We have asked your presidents to restrain this rabid junta led by Mnangagwa but none of them has tried. We tried elections and we all saw what happened. We are at the end of out wits. and about to snap. If any of you can convince your governments to give us guns and a forest, you will see that we are not cowards.show more

Apparently, I saw this video online and I decided... to share. What this worker is applying is called bitumen, or what many of us know as bituminous coating. Most people think a wall is a solid, impenetrable block, but in reality, it is more like a sponge. Concrete and blocks have microscopic pores that pull water from the earth through a process we call capillary action. This thick black substance is the shield that stops that water from climbing up into the house. It is not about making the wall look good because this part will be buried under the dirt forever. It is about creating a skin that water cannot breathe through. When do you need to do this? The need for this arises because the soil is a very aggressive environment. Water is not your only enemy.. The ground also contains salts and sulfates that want to eat away at the cement. If this moisture finds its way to the steel bars inside the columns, those bars will start to rust. And when steel rusts, it expands, and that expansion is what cracks the concrete from the inside out. This coating is the only thing standing between your foundation and that kind of slow destruction. Thats is why if you see wet patches at the bottom of your walls inside your house, it usually means someone skipped this step or did it poorly during construction. You can apply this anytime you are building parts of a structure that will stay in contact with the ground. It is common in areas where the water table is high or where the soil stays damp for most of the year. This is a one-shot opportunity. Once you backfill the soil, you can never go back to fix it without a lot of expense and a lot of digging. It is about having the foresight to protect the heart of the building while it is still exposed. Please don’t ignore this if you need to. If you ignore it now to save a bit of money, you will be funding the future decay of your own home. I hope this helps.show more

we like it as long as you're having fun... 🥰 💥 : how do you think the fans will react? 🍒 : i don't think they will like it 💥 : why is that? 🍒 : they don't want to see me having a hard time 🍒 : but i'm not struggling at all, guys! i can run like this anytime!! [speeds up] 🏃‍♂️show more

My surgery went well yesterday - thank you everyone... for all the kind words and prayers. I know this corner of ours means it when they say it. Lotta pain, but that's to be expected. Now lemme put a smile on your face: We've done this so many times with old shelter dogs, and the pattern is almost always the same - when they get here, they're usually nervous and quiet; unsure of what is in store and what their life is gonna be like. After being here with me, OBX Dog Walker and the rest of the dogs, they start to relax and be the dog they wanna be; the dog they were or could have been before they were abandoned. Molly was so quiet and reserved when we got her, and now? Yeah. She's right at home, letting me know I need to get off my ass and feed her. Love to see it. And I'm grateful to all of you.show more

Your brain lies to you - Constantly and you... call it reality. Between what happens and what you see, there is always the brain. It doesn’t observe. It predicts. Every second, it reconstructs the world from past experience, beliefs, and expectations - and you mistake that reconstruction for “objective reality.” Optical illusions simply make this mechanism visible. In real life, it works quietly - in money, relationships, decisions, fears, and repeating patterns. You’re not stuck in circumstances. You’re stuck in a perceptual model you don’t even notice. Here’s the part most people avoid: if perception is constructed, it can be rewritten. That’s what my books are about. Not positive thinking. Not affirmations. But understanding how thought becomes a filter of reality - and how to exit automatic mode. When thinking changes, reality doesn’t “magically” improve - it starts to look different, and you make different decisions. That’s where everything begins.show more

Brainrotting teens watching short form memes so much to... the point that parts of the fragments of other memes become even more short form and get colluded in other memes to the point that it really doesnt make sense. However. Brain loves pattern recognition of these patterns and nonsensical randomly shown fragments of memes, because it is not long form reward, nor short form reward — but instantaneous; it is the only form of pleasure it can feel So brain tries to look for these patterns unconsciously, it sees patterns and similar resemblance in random things and adds a symbolical emotional labeling of truth to it. So everything becomes a piece of information and data. It gets stored in their subconscious brain and fires up everytime there is a resemblance. Extremely dangerous if weaponised but no one sees the patterns yet. However because of these pattern behaviours teens are split into two categories, the brainrots which God knows how it will end with them — consumers and slaves that later on might have no free will and be driven by pure chemical instinct. And those who see for truth in patterns. The latter is able to overcome modern day censoring and freedom of speech mechanisms, and possibly overcome the evil trying to control the world with pure silliness and having fun. (67 is part of a random pattern that someone said during a match score, and it became viral, nothing more but a collective participation to which youth finds identity by being and acting in it; “performing”) Its beauty lies not in the act but in those individuals that look beyond the chemical instincts of the lower mind. Example of the video below. It shows many fragmental elements of history, symbolism, that is collaged into art. Which by being seen individually or collectively it shows the expression on how man uses its own soul for these kind of co-creations he choses to participate in creation. Symbolism that can leave a person ask for its meaning and search for it, only by questioning himself not by a direct answer (short or long form). Of course which extreme beauty there is also extreme ugliness which are out there which I wont show here Lets see how it really turns out to be honest, West has no protection toward the subjective, the feminine, the subconscious. To which the inner sins of man try to exploit.show more

A friend of mine just recently got his first... gun, a striker fired Glock 19. He is terrified to leave a round chambered. To anyone reading this who has this same fear, I want to alleviate your concerns. I'm going to explain why there is nothing to be afraid of. First and foremost, I fully understand your concern. It's not irrational. And you're not stupid for being nervous about a bullet being aimed at your leg with the striker cocked back under spring tension about an 1/8 of an inch from the primer. I get it. I shared this concern when I was new to carrying. But your fear is due to a lack of understanding of the internal safety features of a modern striker fired handgun. On a properly maintained modern striker fired pistol the striker CANNOT hit the primer on the chambered round without the trigger being pulled. Can't. Not shouldn't. Can't. (If you have any good Sig P320 jokes, this is the proper place to share them) There is a block that the striker will hit and stop if it is released without the trigger being depressed. It works just like a lock and key. There is a channel in the blocker that the striker can pass through if it is in the fire position. It only goes into the fire position if the trigger is pulled which pushes the blocker into the fire position. A spring keeps the blocker firmly in the block position until then. The blocker is a solid piece of steel that won't break. And if your gun is securely in a hard sided Kydex holster nothing can move the trigger unless it is unholstered. Many guns like Glocks have a trigger safety that prevents the trigger from moving due to force of dropping. Your finger has to be on the trigger safety to move it. So the gun cannot fire unless you pull the trigger. And it's easy for you to test this safety feature to see how it works! See the video below. You can try to push the striker forward by moving that piece at the back of the slide forward. That piece is the back of the striker. Push it forward and it will stop. The tip won't come out through the breach. You see it trying to come through but it gets stuck. Now push that little button in. That is the actual blocker. When you push it in you will now be able to move the striker forward through the breach and see how it will strike the primer. You can test this easily every time you disassemble your pistol to verify it is still working. You can break this safety feature by removing the blocker or losing the spring. But if it's there it will work. (You would be the first person in firearms history who has ever lost a spring. Literally the first one. It has never happened before. 😐) But it doesn't come out as part of regular maintenance. You have to disassemble the firing assembly to get it out. That won't happen by accident. And if you do that on purpose you should do this blocker test when you reassemble it to make sure the safety feature is working. My video shows a Glock slide. All Glocks will look like this. Other brands may put the blocker in a different spot or it may be a slightly different shape. But they all (mostly) have the same design. If you test yours as demonstrated and it works like mine does, your gun WILL NOT fire without pulling the trigger. (If you just thought of another P320 joke, this is another good place to toss that out there)show more

Driving through Aurora, Colorado today reminded me of the... times I lived in South America on and off for around 6 years. Often the people that walk around selling in or cleaning windows in traffic are aggressive, forceful, and pose as threats to passengers. First of all we have windshield wipers!! Secondly we don't need people looking through our windows to see what they can find coercing people for all the spare cash they have. In Latin America this is normal everywhere. Random people charging you for parking in public space, to sit down to eat at a restaurant they send in their kids to guilt you, or like this at a stop light, to be safe we have to pay them? This behavior isn't a favor or honest work, its a "pay me not to rob you," kind of deal.show more

“Daddy, I love you.” Here’s another wonderful example of... the earliest form of imaginary play. You’ll note that this initial role playing is not about princesses or superheroes or even community helpers. All that will come later. Instead your child’s first imaginary play is likely to emulate the true hero in their life: YOU. Watch as this little one role plays her mother’s own departure from the house as she heads out on an imaginary shopping trip. She waves goodbye, dangling a plastic container from her arm to emulate a handbag. And she tells her father she loves him. It’s a routine she’s seen play out many times in her own home. It can be humbling to be imitated by your todddler, if only because you learn just how carefully you’re being watched. Your mannerisms, your speech patterns and more are all likely to be reflected. But it can also be a wonderful reminder about your influence as a parent. Every day, you are shaping how your child speaks, acts, and sees the world… even when you don’t think you’re being watched. So remember to be the role model you want to see reflected back to the world through your child. This adorable little shopper was shared to IG by the.golding.girls.show more

Being sore all the time is not a badge.... It means: - Your volume is too high - Your recovery is in deficit - Your next session is compromised - Your nervous system is still cleaning up the last one - Your growth is being throttled by accumulated damage Soreness is a sign you did something. It is not a sign you did the right thing. A trained muscle in a sensible programme should rarely be sore at all. The first few weeks of a new stimulus, yes. After that, your body adapts. The soreness fades. The growth carries on without it. People treat this as a problem to solve. They add drop sets. They add finishers. They chase the burn. They want that next-day ache back because the ache feels like proof. It is not proof. It is damage your body now has to repair before it can build anything new. The lifters making the most progress walk out of the gym feeling worked but not wrecked. They train the same muscle again 72 hours later because they can. The sore-every-day brigade train it again in a week and call it advanced programming. It's just bad arithmetic.show more