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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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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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🚨 MILTON FRIEDMAN: EFFICIENCY DROPS WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY "When you spend your own money on yourself, you're very careful of what you spend it on; when you spend your own money on somebody else, you're very careful that you don't spend too much. When you're spending the government's money on yourself, you're very careful that you get good things for your money. When you spend somebody else's money on somebody else, you're a distributor of welfare funds, and you're not going to be anything like as careful in spending somebody else's money on somebody else." Source: Thomas Sowell Quotes

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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.

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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50,396 views • 1 month ago

Simple test for gauging recovery and workout readiness: "How do you know when a muscle is ready to be challenged again?" "If you're training when you're really sore, it's probably not a great idea and it's a good indication that that muscle's not recovered." "When you start to see a drop-off of 10% or so, or even greater, of your grip output, you really should skip the gym that day." Jeff Cavaliere on Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

Simple test for gauging recovery and workout readiness: "How do you know when a muscle is ready to be challenged again?" "If you're training when you're really sore, it's probably not a great idea and it's a good indication that that muscle's not recovered." "When you start to see a drop-off of 10% or so, or even greater, of your grip output, you really should skip the gym that day." Jeff Cavaliere on Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

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90,634 views • 1 month 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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15,052 views • 1 year ago

This is the Lagos you are referring to and using to look down on other states in Nigeria. When a child is talking it's easy to know

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Eric Daugherty

288,538 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸 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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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."

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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."

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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.” ❤️

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