#LAKA

1. Friends Of Planet Earth!

We Are Indeed Dancing In Light Together For The Grand March Of Unity. Many Friends Are On The Ground And Watching From Crafts As The Planet Takes A Stand For Truth And Freedom!

How to Think Better: 5 Robust Tips

// A THREAD //

We think all the time.

Yet, we don't spend much time thinking about HOW we think.

But this meta-level is required if you want to IMPROVE your thinking.

Thinking is the highest ROI skill you can build for life.

Let me show you five tips on how to do it.

1. Get bored

The great thoughts don't come to you when you're busy jumping from one task to another.

- Shower
- Walk

...those are the places where great thoughts tend to appear.

Take advantage and plan how to incorporate "boredom" into your life.

P.S. Meditation counts

2. Know your thinking biases

We as people have some predictable errors in our thinking.

You need to know them, so you can take them into account - and adjust.

Where to start?

@ScottAdamsSays book Loserthink
or Daniel Kahneman book: Thinking Fast and Slow

3. Use mental models

Mental models are general principles that you can apply to various situations.

I strongly recommend you to build your own base of those.

Where to start?

Blog: @farnamstreet

Book: Poor Charlie's Almanack

2020... what a year.

I just put the finishing touches on my Annual Review.

Here are 30 lessons I learned about myself and the world across five areas:

• Health
• Wealth
• Relationships
• Online creativity
• Personal operations

🧵👇🏼

Feel free to treat each of these as standalone tweets and comment on the lessons that resonate most heavily with you.

HEALTH

1. Health starts with removal, not addition.

This year I officially hit 100 lbs lost. And looking back, it wasn't what I started doing, but what I stopped doing that got me there.

Fewer carbs, fewer beers, fewer hours sitting, these things add up.

2. Recognize you are undisciplined instead of trying to fight it.

The most "disciplined" people actually are the most undisciplined.

But they recognize and accept this.

So they set up constraints that prevent them from having to rely on self-control and willpower.

3. Your health, especially mental health, is your foundation.

If you can't sit comfortably alone with the voice in your head, no amount of "success" will change that.

12 weeks alone in NYC during peak-COVID forced me to learn this lesson.

What the fuck happened to my Relationship?
Why did she leave me?
Why did she cheat on me?
Why?

Everytime a guy is broken because of a woman the reason why whatever happened happened always falls under 3 Categories

Weak Frame
Hypergamy
improper Vetting

Thread

WEAK FRAME

Frame is simply an unspoken and unseen circle where everyone chooses to operate in

Everyone has a frame but not everyone's frame is functional

If you're leading a conversation everyone is in your frame, if you're not then you're in the frame of the person leading

At first a guy might have given her the subconscious idea that he is capable of leading and being assertive but as time went on he started succumbing to her bullshit

Whenever she threw a shit test he would fail miserably again and again till he was now operating in her frame

Instead of being her pillar he made her his and leaned on her making her have the final say...
To a point that she no longer sees him as the guy she wants inside her

There are so many things a man does that largely falls into this category... And most of these go unnoticed

Everytime you apologize even when she's wrong you step into her Frame and let her know she can fuck up and you'll take the blame

Anytime you essentially allow her to lead, have the last say, and tell u what needs be done. . You're in her frame

We're at a crossroads in humanity here. Unifying as human beings is the biggest threat to the people who are exploiting us. They exploit us for our time and money, and are constantly thinking up new ways to give us just enough to not complain. Unfortunately for them, they got

I've spent the past year as angry as I've been since the early days of the AIDS epidemic when I had to bury friends in their 20s, 30s because our government didn't care if gay men lived or died from a new virus among us. 1/

Some were put off by my anger, some thought scientists shouldn't be political or if they were tone it down a bit. 2/

I work in public health. I am not a basic scientist or a theoretician. I work in a field that is hemmed in by history and politics on every side. 3/

From the 19th century onwards, we've known that who lives and who dies isn't just a function of biology. The data support this thesis, we call them the social determinants of health. 4/

My friend and colleague Paul Farmer calls out these determinants in more direct terms as pathologies of power, structural violence. 5/

7 Psychological Triggers you can use to motivate, influence and persuade people to do what you want

⚠ Warning: These triggers are HARD-CODED into our brains and can be used for good or for harm. Please use them responsibly 🙏

*Thread*

1. Consistency

Once a commitment is made, the tendency is to be consistent with that first commitment.

The size of the commitment can be as small as getting people to raise their hands and say "yes"

Or it could be accepting an invitation to take the car out for a test drive.

2. Objection raising

If you can address your target's objection before he brings it up, you come across as honest rather than deceptive.

This is why great sales letters often say "I know what you're thinking..." or something similar.

Most people f^ck this up by sweeping...

the objection under the carpet and hoping the target forgets.

But the longer you wait, the more skepticism you build in your target's mind.

Bring up the objections early and address them and you will earn the target's TRUST.

3. Involvement and ownership
The best way to get someone to buy something is to make them feel like they own it.

Can't get people to join your community? Offer a free trial.

Can't persuade your wife to go to Costa Rica for a vacation? Take her on a mental journey to the beach.

#AKATU

1. Beloved Friends!

This Is Your Moment To Shine Like Never Before!  Each Positive Move Toward The Light Will Show You That Indeed The Truth Rings Out In Unison Among All Patriots!

This is not an original anecdote. But is thought provoking neverthless.

A young woman went to her mother, told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. 1/n

She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her wise mother did not say anything but led her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on the stove. 2/n

And the pots were brought to boil. In the first pot she put a carrot, in the second she carefully dropped an egg, and in the last she put a spoon of ground coffee beans. She let them boil for a while, without saying a word. 3/n

After twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She stained both the pots containing carrot and egg, which she placed on separate bowls. She poured the pot that contained the coffee powder and water into a third bowl. 4/n

Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.'

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied.

Her mother asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break its shell. 5/n

How to befriend any stranger.

Easy method to build respect based friendships with new people.

PS: Don't read if you feel bad about manipulating people.

-Thread-

Before we start, what you need to know is that there are two types of strangers:

-Those bothered by you

-Those who are willing to talk to you

In both cases, the first seconds of making contact are crucial.

Here is how you should approach both.

First thing you need to realize, is that while you're only practicing your social skills

The person in front has absolutely no interest or reason to listen to you.

This is why it is of paramount importance NOT to talk about yourself.

Make them feel comfortable.

Before we get to what you will say and how.

Let's focus on body language.

To trigger anyone's curiosity, you should convey a confident and reassuring vibe.

Your posture should be showing confidence without intimidating your interlocutor.

How can your body language express positive vibes?

- Straight back
- Wide shoulders
- Pumped chest (dont over do it)
- Genuine smile
- Stay at least a meter away from the person, you want to show interest but you want them to come to you

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

Perhaps All Reading This Deserve A Little Cheering Up!  We Send Love In High Vibrations To You As You Celebrate New Beginnings!  It Would Not Be Accurate To Extend A 'Happy New Year',

How to vet a woman. Qualify her by setting your standards.

Thread

If you want to vet a woman properly, you need to separate two components that makes up who she is;

Macro scale - her deep values that make up her belief system.

Micro scale - her everyday habits & behaviours.

Macro cannot be easily modified, the micros can.

A woman's belief system in life takes one of two pathways,

she either chooses a path of independence, where her values shape around it,

or she chooses to seek femininity.

One directly conflicts with the other. The more independent she becomes, the less feminine she is.

Obviously you want a feminine woman. And that would mean to vet how far she is willing to go in her line of career. If career ascension is her aim, her belief system does not align with yours.

Her career must stop somewhere for her to be able to regain her feminine nature.

Determine how agreeable she is. By default, all women are more agreeable than disagreeable.

That means a woman who's gone out of her way to become disagreeable (for example career ascension) is a red flag, unless circumstances justify it.

2020, the year I found sobriety.

Just before midnight on December 31, 2019, alone on my couch with a free pour of Jameson in hand, I made a decision to quit drinking. Just until our second baby was born, she was due in February.

What if I had to, you know, drive my partner to the hospital in the middle of the night and couldn’t because I was a little drunk? I was at least a little drunk every single day.

There were logistics to figure out this time, I would have to get our then 3 year old to a friend’s house. Someone to look after the dog. Go over the checklist. Make sure everything was in the hospital bags. Don’t forget the infant car seat.

I couldn’t just stop by saying so, I’d tried that before and couldn’t make it stick. I needed a plan, a script to follow.

I replaced my nightly ritual of drinking with learning fiddle tunes on the mandolin. Watching Netflix and scrolling through my phone were things to accompany my drinking. In about a week I was able to do things on the mandolin that I’d wished I could do for years. That felt good.

❄️I turned @naval's epic tweetstorm into a 16min 4K video and 39 visuals during winter break.

💰How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) by Naval

🔥THREAD:

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. @naval

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you. @naval

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games. @naval

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom. @naval

So I had a traumatizing experience these past few days on a trip to Mopiri Camp, the highlight of my trauma is waking up to find a man in bed with me with no idea how he got there. I could kill him, I could kill the who fuc@#%g thing, nxla. A thread.

So, we were to leave Maun at 9am on 32 December 2020. I get there and there are all the delays you can think off, we are getting drinks, we are waiting for others, we are buying food. Almost like a road trip with personal friend. 3 hours and some change later we leave, the driver

Is a dude I only met on the trip when he was introduced. It was a combi and a double cab. I was riding on the double. We arrive at the camp late, after 6pm I think, I was tired and I wasn't upto being up until midnight, I felt spiritually and emotionally tired.

So, around 9pm I resign to bed I didn't care to be up at midnight. This driver guy helps carry our bags to the room. The rooms are separate, my estimation could be around 100m apart, we are in room 6. We get there (I was sleeping with a girl) that's another story BTW

I had specifically asked for my own room. I wanted to rest,thats why I'd go alone right???? So I get there and this driver dude and roommate are talking about the evening showdown, I change to jammies and get in bed. I pass out. Next thing I know....

Too many Soldiers have made ONE mistake and received a Hug,

instead of an All-Night Fuck.

HOW TO NEVER FALL INTO THE FRIENDZONE EVER AGAIN:

《《 THREAD 》》

The #1 reason guys get friendzoned?

They aren't physical enough.

They act like one of her girlfriends or g@y friends.

Being Physical-

It's an expression of yourself.

You're not trying to accomplish anything.

you're doing it because YOU want to.

When should you be physical?

As soon as possible.

You don't want be another "girlfriend"

You want to be MAN TO WOMAN.

If you're not Physical,

you're not a Sexual Threat.

Women will vibe with you, but in a very platonic way.

You want her girlfriends to go- "Who is this guy!?"

The 10 most important things I've learned in 2020.

10. Be very careful where you put your teeth when carrying balloons. It's also probably not a good idea to carry eggs if you can't carry a balloon.

#DogsOfTwitter #yegdog #CanadianDogs #LifeLessons

9. Humans should order more dog treats and less of these bags of air. Don't they know they don't need to get air shipped to them?

8. I would make a stunning statue!

7. It's important to wash your paws! Not as important as it is for humans to wash their hands, but still important. Also, check for eye boogers before going out.

6. Certain surfaces cause the tires on a wheelchair to build up static which then makes the treat ⚡your nose.

Sleep is always my top priority, and will continue to be in 2021. It is foundational to all health.

I’ve compiled a list of my top 8 sleep hacks that I use everyday to improve my sleep. If you are trying to improve your sleep in 2021, this thread is for you. 👇

1) Thermal shock:

- 2 Hours before bedtime, I will either go into a sauna and immediately follow with an ice-bath or take a hot bath followed by a cold shower
- This helps improve my circulation, reduce inflammation and aid in muscle recovery

2) Normatec boots:

- Muscle relaxation is key for restful sleep
- I use @NTRecovery NormaTec Leg Pulse 2.0s at night to help increase blood flow in my legs & relieve muscle tension

3) Smart lighting

- Bright/harsh lighting delays the production of melatonin & sleep onset time
- I use @tweethue Phillips Hue lights in my home that turn orange & gradually dim starting at 7PM and completely shut off at 9:30PM

4) Mobility exercises:

- 30 mins before bedtime, I do mobility exercises to relax my body
- I use my @Hyperice HyperVolt Plus Massage Gun during this time to relax my hips and massage feet, hands and back