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How mental distancing improves willpower and self-control: "Self-control fails when we are not able to move in distance. When it's far away, it's easy. When it's close, it's really difficult." "Referring to yourself in the third person creates psychological distance that gives you just enough to think of it... show more

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Dave: "It's out of control. When you go in this direction... it's like a frickin heroin addict... you go so far... the only way to do it is to do more and more and more."

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Andrew Huberman on why you can't think your way out of stress: Huberman is asked what he means when he says you cannot control the mind with the mind. His answer reframes how we should approach stress, anxiety, and emotional regulation entirely. "If you're very upset, it's hard to talk yourself out of it. If you're stressed, it's hard to think yourself out of it." He explains that when we're in heightened emotional states, we tend to default to mental strategies, rationalizing, "third personing" ourselves, texting a friend, trying to reason our way back to calm. But according to Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., this rarely works: "It's very hard to get yourself out of those states with thinking alone." The solution, he argues, lies not in the mind but in the body. "The beauty of the autonomic nervous system is that it traverses the brain and the body and it connects to essentially all the organs of the body. And it's a two-way street such that certain behaviors, even certain patterns of breathing etc. allow us to shift between very very alert and stressed and very calm." This two-way street is the key insight. The body doesn't just receive signals from the brain, it also sends them back. Shifting your physiology shifts your mental state, which in turn shifts the kinds of thoughts and actions available to you. "If you're very very stressed, you're very very upset, two things happen. One, it's very hard to take your focus off whatever it is that's upsetting you. And if you don't know what's upsetting you, you know, pure anxiety, but you don't know why, it's very hard to take your mind off of the feelings of anxiety." In other words, anxiety hijacks your attention and then traps you there. Trying to think your way out only tightens the grip. The way out is to move through the body first: "If we turn to the body and certain behaviors, we are able to move ourselves along the autonomic continuum. And at that point, when we've done that successfully, we are able to think about things differently." "If you can't control the mind with the mind, look to the body to control the mind."

Andrew Huberman on why you can't think your way out of stress: Huberman is asked what he means when he says you cannot control the mind with the mind. His answer reframes how we should approach stress, anxiety, and emotional regulation entirely. "If you're very upset, it's hard to talk yourself out of it. If you're stressed, it's hard to think yourself out of it." He explains that when we're in heightened emotional states, we tend to default to mental strategies, rationalizing, "third personing" ourselves, texting a friend, trying to reason our way back to calm. But according to Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., this rarely works: "It's very hard to get yourself out of those states with thinking alone." The solution, he argues, lies not in the mind but in the body. "The beauty of the autonomic nervous system is that it traverses the brain and the body and it connects to essentially all the organs of the body. And it's a two-way street such that certain behaviors, even certain patterns of breathing etc. allow us to shift between very very alert and stressed and very calm." This two-way street is the key insight. The body doesn't just receive signals from the brain, it also sends them back. Shifting your physiology shifts your mental state, which in turn shifts the kinds of thoughts and actions available to you. "If you're very very stressed, you're very very upset, two things happen. One, it's very hard to take your focus off whatever it is that's upsetting you. And if you don't know what's upsetting you, you know, pure anxiety, but you don't know why, it's very hard to take your mind off of the feelings of anxiety." In other words, anxiety hijacks your attention and then traps you there. Trying to think your way out only tightens the grip. The way out is to move through the body first: "If we turn to the body and certain behaviors, we are able to move ourselves along the autonomic continuum. And at that point, when we've done that successfully, we are able to think about things differently." "If you can't control the mind with the mind, look to the body to control the mind."

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Tony Bennett shares a masterclass on humility and why most people get it wrong. "When we talk to our young men about what humility means, it's twofold and sometimes it's not what you think." "Don't think too highly of yourself. If you wanna turn people off, walk around arrogantly thinking you own this place." "But we also talk about the other aspect: don't think too lowly of yourself. That's false humility." Most people only see one side. Real humility is balanced. "Have sober judgment. That's what humility means - to really know who you are as a player, as a team. And know who you're not." It takes self-awareness to know who you are and where you want to go. Then he shared a definition that changes everything: "I heard Timothy Keller give the definition of humility as this: It's not thinking less of yourself - it's thinking of yourself less." That's the difference. Not self-doubt, but selflessness. "We're all so selfish. When your team gets past that, that's when you have success. It's been about the team and less about yourself." "People look at humility as a position of weakness. But I think it is true strength. There's power in true humility." It takes humility to be willing to learn and listen. It takes humility to be willing to admit you don't know yet. It takes humility to be unoffendable and put the team first. (🎥 UVA Basketball)

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"how close to mercedes are you?" 🆑️: i don't think it's as close as people think.

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How "micro-discipline" compounds into elite success: "Every single decision that you have in front of you in your life will have a slightly easier and a slightly harder choice. Make the slightly harder one more often than the slightly easier one." "It's micro-discipline that can make it seem as if you have this macro-discipline but that's not actually what it is. It's the little things that nobody sees that's what leads you to that end state." "I don't think it's ever by reflex. I think it's always by will." "How you do anything is how you do everything." Andy Stumpf on Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

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90,164 views • 16 days ago

"It's not given to you. You have to go out there and put in the time. You have to go out there and earn it. You have to pay your dues. You have to do it when no one is looking-when no one is there." It's never about what you want. It's about what you're willing to do.

"It's not given to you. You have to go out there and put in the time. You have to go out there and earn it. You have to pay your dues. You have to do it when no one is looking-when no one is there." It's never about what you want. It's about what you're willing to do.

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🇺🇸 TRUMP: I’LL FIX CHICAGO... IF THEY ASK ME TO "I'd like to be asked, as opposed to just going in and doing it. Because, you know, when you go in and do it, then they start screaming. And then the better we do, they take credit for it. So it's really pretty unfair." Source: Acyn, C-Span

🇺🇸 TRUMP: I’LL FIX CHICAGO... IF THEY ASK ME TO "I'd like to be asked, as opposed to just going in and doing it. Because, you know, when you go in and do it, then they start screaming. And then the better we do, they take credit for it. So it's really pretty unfair." Source: Acyn, C-Span

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152,439 views • 10 months ago

Anderson Silva shares that he went to therapy as a result of working on his new Paramount+ series "Anderson 'Spider' Silva": "It's very hard when you're talking about your life, especially when you don't have a perfect life and have gone through very hard and difficult moments. When you start putting everything on the table for the crew to write the story, it's tough. It's not easy, but I think it's good."

Anderson Silva shares that he went to therapy as a result of working on his new Paramount+ series "Anderson 'Spider' Silva": "It's very hard when you're talking about your life, especially when you don't have a perfect life and have gone through very hard and difficult moments. When you start putting everything on the table for the crew to write the story, it's tough. It's not easy, but I think it's good."

Ariel Helwani

26,787 views • 3 months ago

Vance: "What is it that you want people to do when you call them 'Nazis'? What is it that you want them to do when you call them 'fascist'?...This rhetoric is completely out of control and it's part of this entire network of violence that exists on the far-left."

Vance: "What is it that you want people to do when you call them 'Nazis'? What is it that you want them to do when you call them 'fascist'?...This rhetoric is completely out of control and it's part of this entire network of violence that exists on the far-left."

The Bulwark

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“If you could talk to yourself in 2025, when everything was difficult. What would you say?” LH: “I would say continue to believe in yourself. Remember who you are, like my fans told me. And I think that ‘don’t forget who you are’ part was really, one of my hardest moments of my life, to be honest. To re-discover that and get myself back in that place, I couldn’t have done it without my fans.” ❤️

“If you could talk to yourself in 2025, when everything was difficult. What would you say?” LH: “I would say continue to believe in yourself. Remember who you are, like my fans told me. And I think that ‘don’t forget who you are’ part was really, one of my hardest moments of my life, to be honest. To re-discover that and get myself back in that place, I couldn’t have done it without my fans.” ❤️

deni

31,121 views • 16 days ago

R: do you think one of you have to be prioritised to win the wdc? "I don't think so. it's still so incredibly tight and we've both said we wanted an opportunity to try and fight for the championship because we deserve it. I think it's far too close to start picking one over the other"

R: do you think one of you have to be prioritised to win the wdc? "I don't think so. it's still so incredibly tight and we've both said we wanted an opportunity to try and fight for the championship because we deserve it. I think it's far too close to start picking one over the other"

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259,297 views • 8 months ago

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

Brian Kight

308,788 views • 1 year ago