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Bobby Übermensch retweeted
The Truman Show is one of my favorite films because it’s a rare encapsulation of the uniquely modern male experience of being treated like a freak for realizing the world around you is hollow and synthetic and exploits you. We must chase danger and despair, not shy away from it
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Travis Scott is reportedly in possession of Compound V, a chemical substance capable of developing superpowers.
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High T mindset:
- belief that you can do anything you put your mind into
- assertive; you speak your mind with no fear of repercussion
- zero tolerance for people's bullshit
- always looking into the future, never dwell in the past
- put God above all else
- be of service
Bobby Übermensch retweeted
It’s not sexy.
But your ability to focus
Exerts huge influence in your ability to shape, change, progress, and transform your life.
And with every day that passes.. people’s ability to focus is deteriorating more and more.
If you have the ability to sit down and focus on one thing for 30 minutes uninterrupted?
You are already ahead of the curve.
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All 20 Split Diopter Shots in Brian De Palma's 1980 erotic psychological thriller. They are not gimmicks. They are part of his visual storytelling language.
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ethan hawke said something i haven’t stopped thinking about — we usually move past art like we have no need for it, until loss enters our life and suddenly nothing ordinary can hold what we’re feeling
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“The motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions.”
- Edward Bernays, the OG of Propaganda
One of the earliest ways we, as young children, learned to model patterns of behaviour was simply,
Monkey see
Monkey do
The subconscious loves to learn by visual example.
Whenever we are watching someone else, be it in real life, or digitally through media…
There is a significant portion of our brain that gets activated in acting out the same behaviour that we are observing.
When you watch someone dance, your brain (very subtly) activates those same muscles that you see the dancer using.
When you watch someone experience physical pain, we can often have a real sympathetic experience of that same injury. For example, with guys, we notice this when someone gets kicked in the nuts.
Etc
And the same goes for all the intangible qualities too, like personality traits. Beliefs. Ideas. Motives. Desires. Etc.
It’s crazy how much can be absorbed and downloaded via mere observation.
Couple this real neurological activity with the narrative and emotion of a movie? You have a potent device for installing new models into the subconscious mind. Especially when you consider that movies are hypnotic by nature, and place the audience in a state of relaxed focused attention, in which their subconscious becomes pliable and open to receiving new ideas…
This is why you can experience genuine perspective shifts, changes in behaviour and attitude, after “just” watching a movie.
Use this on purpose:
Bombard your brain with examples of behaviour you want to train.
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IT BEGINS WITH VISION.
Get CRYSTAL CLEAR on EXACTLY the type of person you want to become. With the outcome in mind, reverse engineer what the daily steps to get there… looks like, and execute RUTHLESSLY with SINGLE MINDED FOCUS.
KEEP ALWAYS that extremely COMPELLING, EXCITING, BURNING, image of who you could be, front of mind. And bathe yourself in it daily.