I think I can speak for all the Californians when I say...
In-N-Out is just a burger.
Like a GOOD burger you get at a BBQ.
If you get it animal style, then it's like a little crazy.
That's really it.
It's just a burger, burger, if burgers weren't fast food, or fine dining.
The cure for anxiety, is to deeply understand oneself.
Here is the reasoning...
Emotions are like clouds. Negative emotions are like storms. They move through the air, and pass.
You can think of panic like this as well. Panic is like a thunderstorm.
Loud, thunderous, and scary. But they too pass.
Lower grade storms can be anxiety. They are like rain clouds. This also applies to other emotions like sadness, like depression.
The cure for anxiety or panic isn't to fight the clouds. They just become stronger if you fight them.
The cure is the confidence to weather the storm. The ability to look the storm in the eye, with the confidence that you can survive them. With the right preparations, to truly be safe.
And you can do it without fear.
It's just like those badasses in action movies. No matter what happens, they approach life with true inner confidence.
Emotionally, caffeine gives you excitement/anxiety.
Both excitement and anxiety are the same thing, just taken positively or negatively.
When you do public speaking, you can treat the feeling you get before being on stage as excitement or anxiety. They are the same thing. Once again, taken positively or negatively.
Some studies have shown that caffeine can raise anxiety by as much as 600% compared to baseline.
That anxiety can be incredibly useful for keeping you awake or on task.
But caffeine is not calming. It's the opposite of that.
That's why it can negatively affect learning, memory, and creativity. Both of which thrive on calmness as the base state to perform best, as you need to be as spongelike as possible.
Caffeine makes you better at doing while making you worse at thinking.
Yes, caffeine can increase dopamine release, elevate mood, improve alertness & reaction time.
But its benefits are strongest for tasks requiring speed, not tasks requiring intellectual power.
Research described by Stephen Cherniske — biochemist and author of Caffeine Blues — found that assembly-line type work can improve on caffeine while more complex reasoning gets worse.
Michael Pollan — author and journalist, who abstained from caffeine for 3 months as part of his research for This Is Your Mind on Plants — noticed this firsthand when he drank coffee again for the first time.
He described himself as compulsively getting things done, focusing on each task with single-minded intensity.
“Another task suddenly demanded my attention: it was time to tackle my closet. This is not something I have ever done of my own free will, but at that moment I wanted nothing more than to take all my sweaters off the shelf and sort them into four piles.”
That same trade-off shows up in memory research.
In one study, non-habitual caffeine users received 0, 100, 200 or 400 mg of caffeine.
As little as 100 mg increased false recall and false recognition — while true memory did not improve.
Meaning, caffeine didn’t improve what they actually remembered.
It increased the number of memories that weren't real.
Another study gave subjects 100 mg before an auditory-verbal learning test.
They listened to spoken word lists and were asked to recall them.
The caffeine group recalled fewer words.
Working memory shows the same pattern.
Working memory is what you use to hold information in mind for a few seconds, like a phone number or a short list.
A 2013 behavioral and fMRI study found that caffeine’s effects were more consistent with a detrimental effect at higher working-memory loads than with enhancement.
The same pattern appears in creativity.
In one experiment using caffeinated gum, creative fluency significantly decreased compared with placebo.
The pattern is consistent: caffeine trades depth for speed.
Caffeine makes you feel switched on.
It makes you attack the task in front of you.
But that is not the same as thinking better.
For a founder, in the AI era, that distinction matters.
Pushing through tasks is not the scarce skill.
Judgment is.
gta 7 will be absolutely wtf now that we have AI.
It's either going to be amazing, or the most wtf slop ever.
Coffee is good for longevity because of the polyphenols.
Not because of the caffeine.
Caffeine is slightly net negative for the brain, when you consider it messes with sleep and energy.
Some of the benefits it does have is slightly reduces the development of Parkinson's, cognitive enhancement, and improves exercise performance.
But those do not drastically increase longevity.
Caffeine cuts blood flow to the brain by 30%.
Psychiatrist Daniel Amen says anything that lowers blood flow prematurely ages the organ.
He founded Amen Clinics, which has performed over 200,000 brain SPECT scans.
In his scans, low blood flow is linked to depression, ADHD, substance use problems and traumatic brain injury.
He says it’s the top imaging predictor of Alzheimer’s.
On SPECT, he says, caffeine constricts blood flow by 30%.
The effect is large enough that he has patients avoid caffeine the morning of a scan. Otherwise it artificially lowers the reading.
Blood flow is not his only reason.
Caffeine blocks adenosine and disrupts sleep.
It is addictive and causes withdrawal.
It raises cortisol.
His position: caffeine is best limited or avoided for optimal brain function.
And the patients who quit tell him the same thing:
“So many of my patients stop, and uniformly they tell me they feel better. They said their energy is better.”
One of them was Jeff, a pilot with brain fog and memory problems.
Jeff was having around 600 mg of caffeine per day (less than two Venti brewed coffees from Starbucks, at ~330 mg each).
His brain looked terrible.
They cut his caffeine by 5% a day. In three weeks it was gone, with no withdrawal and no headaches.
Then the texts from Jeff came in:
“Unbelievable energy. Unbelievable clarity.”
People treat caffeine addiction as one of life’s little miracles, with no cost.
Amen’s scans tell a different story.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Acute caffeine reduces cerebral blood flow by ~27% in studies, but large prospective cohorts associate moderate caffeinated coffee/tea intake with lower dementia risk and caffeine is in a Phase 3 trial for Alzheimer's cognition.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC27…
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clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04570…
Social media is just mass hypnosis.
No one even knows what they are watching anymore.
To be successful here, you need to hypnotize people into believing whatever you want to show them is incredibly cool.
That's all that matters for the algorithm.
Your brain is in a jar. The algorithm is just shaking everyone's emotional state. The more content they can shove in there, the better.
We need to spend time everyday, organizing we mind, to counteract daily social media brainrot. Otherwise you'll never get anytime to yourself. We all really need to cutback on screen time.
We have mountains and mountains worth of trash just floating around, 100 layers deep in our minds. We gotta clean up.
Social media has decreased global happiness.
Everyone is more distracted than ever.
Our minds are being hypnotized to care about dumb things.
