The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine sisyphus happy. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
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Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Interesting study from Japan.
Women with higher standards for a husband were less likely to marry.
The authors suggest women maintain those standards because society insists that they do.
Should society insist that women lower their standards instead? That seems more sexist to me.
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Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Speed-dating research finds that facial attractiveness is the strongest predictor of romantic interest over height, income, and education level (Asendorpf et al., 2011).
In the study, after a 3-minute date, participants chose whether or not they wanted to see that person again.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Wow, every action you've taken for the last month has involved strategically avoiding doing the one thing that you believe is most important towards achieving your goals. That's a pretty smart way to avoid risk and disappointment
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
A study with over 10,000 people across 42 countries shows that men and women underestimate how much looks matter in romantic relationships (Eastwick et al., 2025).
As seen in the table, look-related traits all rank higher as revealed prederences than stated preferences.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
El 70% del atractivo corporal de los hombres depende de la fuerza que perciben las mujeres en su torso. Incluir las variables de la altura y la delgadez (ausencia de exceso de grasa) sólo aumenta este porcentaje al 80%.
No se encontró evidencia de la hipótesis de "U invertida", según la cual los hombres extremadamente fuertes podrían ser menos atractivos que los hombres moderadamente fuertes. En todas las muestras, los hombres más fuertes fueron considerados los más atractivos, y los hombres más débiles fueron considerados los menos atractivos.
Estos resultados tienen sentido desde una perspectiva evolutiva. La selección natural equipó a las especies que se reproducen sexualmente con mecanismos de elección de pareja que sirven para evaluar las consecuencias reproductivas de aparearse con distintos individuos. Los mecanismos de elección de pareja de las mujeres rastrean señales de la calidad genética de los hombres y de su capacidad para invertir recursos en la mujer y su descendencia. Una variable que predice ambas cosas es la formidabilidad del hombre (su habilidad para luchar o su potencial para defender y obtener recursos).
Las mujeres modernas siguen siendo Homo sapiens cuya biología responde a señales ancestrales de capacidad de lucha, especialmente a las que indican fuerza en el tren superior. Este estudio muestra que esa respuesta no es residual ni secundaria, sino el factor dominante que explica la mayor parte de las diferencias en el atractivo corporal masculino.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Forbidden study: The optimal age for women to have their first child is 16 to 20. After controlling for smoking, race, marital status, and BMI, their babies were "significantly more likely to survive" and "did as well or better" than those of first-time mothers aged 21 to 25.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
"status matters...it attracts women. In fact, having high status is probably the single most desirable feature in a man. Which is why you often see elderly billionaires, drug-addled rock stars and overweight crypto bros with young, beautiful girlfriends." aporiamagazine.com/p/life-is…
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Major cheat code in life: realizing you can completely reinvent yourself at any moment. You can change your beliefs, your habits, your self-image, and the entire direction of your life. The person you were yesterday has absolutely no authority over who you decide to become today. Give yourself permission to become someone you've never been before.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Cada hora que pasas consumiendo contenido (redes, videos, scrolling) refuerza circuitos de recompensa que te hacen desear más estimulación rápida y novedosa, como ocurre en otras adicciones.
Un estudio de 2020 sobre adicción a smartphones mostró exactamente eso: personas con mayor uso tenían menos materia gris en zonas como la ínsula y la corteza temporal, y menor actividad en la corteza cingulada anterior, áreas clave para la atención, el control de impulsos y regular las emociones.
Esto se traduce en dificultad para concentrarte, más ansiedad cuando no estás conectado y menor tolerancia al aburrimiento. Proteger tu atención no es un consejo motivacional vacío: es una forma de cuidar que tu cerebro no se reconfigure hacia la dependencia constante de estímulos.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
one of the most liberating realizations a human can have:
almost all of your thoughts are completely useless, wrong, and meaningless.
they are just biological feedback from a dysregulated nervous system, old childhood defense mechanisms, and genetic conditioning.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
olmak istediğin kişi gibi davranmalısın, olmayı beklememelisin.
hep diyorum, en iyi yol bu.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Sleeping ~5 hours instead of ~7.5 hours while dieting led to 55% less fat loss and 60% more fat-free mass loss (even with similar total weight loss)
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Porn addiction and Histamine
Excess histamine promotes addiction.
Usually, when histamine is high, dopamine is LOW (all addictions are your body's attempt to increase dopamine levels in the brain) and antagonizing the H3 auto-receptor increases dopamine.
Its been found that when histamine is highest, chances for addiction or relapse is the highest
Estrogen and cortisol is also heavily involved as both increase histamine, all of which promote addiction
A few simple tricks to lower histamine so your urge to watch porn reduces:
- Vitamin E
- Caffeine (Caffeine inhibits histamine release from mast cells and reduces mortality from anaphylactic shock.)
- Progesterone (Progest-E (progesterone and vitamin E) can powerfully lower histamine. Both substances oppose the histaminergic hormone estrogen.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Bir erkeğin hem eş bulma başarısıyla hem de üreme başarısıyla (çocuk sayısı) tutarlı ve anlamlı pozitif ilişki gösteren tek fiziksel özellik boy değil fiziksel kas gücüdür.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
For male doctors, longer hours correlate with less divorce.
For female doctors, longer hours correlate with more.
Per census data on ~49k US physicians (BMJ, 2015)
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
Erkeklerin maskülen özellikleri (iri kas kütlesi, kalın ses, geniş kemik yapısı), kadınların estetik beğenisini cezbetmek için değil; tarihsel süreçte hemcinslerini sindirmek, fiziksel rekabette üstünlük kurmak ve kaynaklara/dişilere erişimi tekeline almak için evrilmiştir.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
La belleza física del rostro de las mujeres depende más del padre que de la madre. Además, los padres más atractivos tienden a tener hijas con rostros considerados más femeninos.
Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
If you are a neurotic/anxious person, you must ignore most of your worries.
91.4% of them never come true.
Rumination ruins living.
It drains your internal resources without delivering any positive return on investment.
Of course, rumination might initially feel like productive analysis, which is why it is so addictive.
Your brain tricks you into believing that if you just replay the scenario one more time, you will find the magical answer.
In reality, it is a closed loop that generates anxiety without action.
But you cannot think your way out of rumination.
Trying to solve a rumination loop with more thinking is the ultimate psychological trap to the point that is often called the "rumination paradox."
Most traditional advice relies on a top-down approach aka trying to change your thoughts to change your body.
But when your nervous system is dysregulated, this fails.
Instead you should try changing your physical state first to force your brain to quiet down.
Think breathwork, taking action, working on GABA, lowering glutamate, vagus nerve stimulation etc
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Nissan Al-Gaib retweeted
People never told me I was especially handsome.
Then I dropped to 10-12% bodyfat and people where asking me whether I model
> Lean is law
