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Life is lived at the arena. Exploring this thing called life. Philosophy, History, Science 🔭 Economics. Be the change you want to see in the world 🧡
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
If you watch closely, you’ll notice that insecurity is the hidden architect behind most human behavior. People brag not because they feel superior, but because they fear irrelevance. They attack not because they’re confident, but because they sense a threat to their fragile identity.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
Sir Isaac Newton's insane study routine ✍️ “He worked seven days a week, 18 hours a day, and he pushed himself even further” Newton got admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in the year 1661. In the year 1664, he got a scholarship to study for four more years to finish his MA but in the same year, England was hit by Bubonic plague due to which the University was closed for two consecutive years. Due to this reason, Newton had to go back to his home in Woolsthorpe. These two years turned out to be the most productive and mind-wrenchingly stressful years for Newton. During these two years, he spent most of his days, most of his hours, studying in a room with nothing but lighting candles, loads of books, and notes around. It is reportedly said that he used to get so engrossed in his works that he would forget and skip his meals. During this period, Newton used to spend 16–18 hours a day working and studying in his room totally undistracted. He came up with the theory of gravitation, his significant works in optics, and he also invented calculus during these bubonic plague times at his home. According to biographer Gale Christianson, Newton’s working habits were pathologically addictive and for him, there was no end to the day. He would just keep going on and on and on until he felt exhausted to death. In the 1680s, when Newton was rigorously working to publish his lifelong works in his book Principia Mathematica, as mentioned by one of Newton’s employees, he would often go to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning. He barely attended any social events or participated in any recreational activities. image
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
You learn quickly that loyalty built on comfort collapses under pressure, but loyalty built on respect endures, and the only way to earn that respect is through unshakable consistency; actions that remain steady whether watched, ignored, praised, or opposed.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
You know you’re evolving when your anger becomes information instead of impulse. Instead of striking back, you pause. You analyze. You observe the pattern behind the emotion. That shift from reaction to recognition is how you break self-limiting loops
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
Your body contains 72km of nerves and enough blood vessels to circle Earth twice. The human body’s nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering. If all your nerve fibers were stretched end to end, they’d span roughly 45 miles (72 kilometers) — enough to connect distant parts of your body with lightning-fast communication. The longest single nerve, the sciatic nerve, can stretch over 1 meter (3 feet) in some individuals, running from the lower spine down to the foot. The central nervous system, made up of the brain and spinal cord, controls every thought, sensation, and movement — with the spinal cord alone measuring about 18 inches (45 cm) in length. And that’s just one system. The body’s blood vessels — arteries, veins, and capillaries — stretch more than 95,000 kilometers (59,000 miles) if laid end to end, enough to circle the Earth more than twice. Supporting it all is your skeleton, built from 206 bones, which protect organs, produce blood cells, and form the framework for muscles. Together, these systems highlight the body’s astonishing complexity and its ability to function as one synchronized unit. Source: Hill, M. A. (2023). The Nervous System. Anatomy & Physiology, University of Leeds; National Institutes of Health (NIH); American Heart Association. image
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
Control your mornings, and the day bends in your favor. Control your attention, and your life bends in your favor. Everything outside of discipline is manipulation; the world profits from your distraction. You profit from your structure.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
“When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition.” — Milton Friedman
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
Your standards will isolate you. Good. Greatness demands solitude. Mediocrity is a crowd sport, excellence is a lonely war. Every time you’re misunderstood, know this: the higher you climb, the fewer can breathe your air.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
"Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years." Naval . Not a big fan of him lately ,but his brilliant at articulating great ideas 💡
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
Wisdom always comes with trails and errors there's no other way. Stay strong 🧡
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
“Energy is the true currency. You can’t legislate energy. You can’t just pass a law and suddenly have a lot of energy… Bitcoin is based on energy.”
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
“Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax. YOU PAY FOR IT, either in the form of taxes, or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt.” — Milton Friedman
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
A man’s soul decays when he abandons responsibility. He hides behind pleasure, blames circumstance, and rots in comfort. Purpose resurrects him. Pain cleanses him. Every trial you endure is an invitation to evolve, or an excuse to decay. The choice is yours.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
The cost of clarity is losing illusions you were emotionally attached to - illusions about loyalty, fairness, consistency, and the permanence of people
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“We may be free and yet miserable. Liberty does not mean all good things or the absence of all evil. To be free may mean freedom to starve, to make costly mistakes, or to run mortal risks.” — Friedrich Hayek
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
In every relationship; , social, professional - you’re in a feedback loop of moves and countermoves. If you reward disrespect, it increases. If you punish loyalty, it dies. If you stay silent when boundaries are crossed, the equilibrium tilts against you. The game always adjusts to the behavior you tolerate.
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BulgarianHoDL 1 month ago
The world doesn’t reward self-minimization. It rewards the men who carry their hunger openly, who pursue mastery without shame, and who refuse to dim themselves in response to society’s criticisms.