DiscoverySteve retweeted
その猫背、胸を張るだけで何とかしようとしていませんか？
猫背には、胸や背中の硬さも関係します。
長時間のデスクワークで固まった体を、痛くない範囲でゆっくり動かしてみてください👇
DiscoverySteve retweeted
”初心者向け脇腹脂肪ワークアウト”
運動しても何故か痩せない。
むしろ浮腫んできてしまう方もいる。
”コルチゾール戦略”と”血糖値戦略”の重要性。
コルチゾールは脂肪を四肢から上半身に再分布させ、顔のむくみと腹部の脂肪も併発する可能性。
DiscoverySteve retweeted
”ベッドでできる坐骨神経の緊張を和らげる動き”
腰の負担が軽減する方確かにいる。
軽減せず逆に悪化する方もいる。
後者に共通するのは「張力構造」の破綻。
特に「足根洞の機能低下」の影響。
距骨と踵骨の間に存在する小さな“余白”に問題がある可能性。
DiscoverySteve retweeted
The Asian Squat Test
Step 1 - Drop down into a full squat with heels on ground
Step 2 - Hold for 60-120 seconds
Step 3 - Monitor foot angle & how the body feels
This is a signal of ankle, knee, and hip mobility and leg strength, strongly correlated with independence, fall risk, and longevity as you get older.
If you can hold this squat for a minute or more, you've got healthy hips and ankles.
If you can't, start by holding onto a pillar and gently lower yourself into a squat position.
Aim for 3–5 minutes total per day in short holds (30–60 seconds), and build up gradually.
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Elon Musk fell into depression as a teenager.
Nietzsche made it worse.
He tried to solve despair with philosophy.
It only trapped him deeper in his head.
Then imagination did what analysis couldn’t.
Here are Musk's secrets that will change how you see anxiety-forever: 🪡
1. You need a world bigger than your pain.
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Conor Neill: "18 years of school trained you to ruin conversations"
"You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home, you're a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' A dirty plate is left on the table... 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?"
The problem:
"Most of you... went through 14 years of school where you were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks a question: 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher: 'What is the biological process called osmosis?' Student puts hand up, explains in detail the process through which cell membranes allow water to go from one side to the other."
He continues:
"For 14 years you've been taught that you receive and answer a question. If you went to university, you probably had another 3, 4 years where you gave answers to questions."
On why answering is the worst response:
"In real life, in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are... the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question."
He explains:
"If someone says 'your product is too expensive' and you say 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'... you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says 'you're always late!' and you say 'No no no! Tuesday I definitely was here on time'... you're gonna have a crap weekend."
The insight:
"You've had 14... if not 18 years of training that you answer questions. And it's going to cause fights in your home life. It's going to cause problems at work. It means you're not selling anything. Because when someone says 'your product is too expensive'... that's not what their real issue is. When someone says 'I will have to speak to my boss'... that's not what their real issue is."
On emotion and thinking:
"When your partner says 'you're always late'... emotion goes up. And what happens? This part disconnects. The higher emotion goes... the lower thinking goes."
The implication:
"The way to make someone stupider is insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When asked a question, there's an emotional reaction."
On why you must practice:
"If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment."
He lists the objections:
"'You're always late!'... 'You never wash the dishes!'... 'You never do your part of the share!'... 'Your product is too expensive!'... 'Your competitor is better!'... 'You failed us 3 years ago!'... 'I don't trust your company!' If you don't practice this habit of not giving an answer... you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment."
Neill calls this "Conversation Aikido":
"Martial arts are about using the energy, the force of the opponent against them. In judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go towards the punch. Go towards the energy."
He explains:
"If someone punches you... if someone asks you a question... if someone objects, says you're wrong... the Aikido method is go towards and see the world from their view. In Aikido, you learn to go towards the punch, dodge it, and look... and you are seeing the world in the same direction as the person who's attacking you."
The technique:
"When you are asked a question or given an objection... say 'I understand' and repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back."
Example:
"'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in taking this decision?'"
He adds:
"It takes some habit to start to be able to give 'I understand' and fill in good words. You will have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels... what's behind it."
He explains with an example:
"'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' Then: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'"
On unlearning:
"This takes 14 years of it being drummed into you... 4 more, 18 if you went to university. It's gonna take you at least 18 years to get out of the habit of responding to questions with answers."
The lesson:
"We live in an uncertain world and we don't have the answers. But by giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind... in the other person's business... what other things are going on."
On the 4th question:
"I guarantee that if you do it 4 times... the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, interest of the person you're listening to."
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore.
On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system:
1) Replay conversations in your head
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Here's what Sapolsky proved: these aren't 10 separate habits.
They're symptoms of a nervous system stuck in survival mode 24/7.
That's exactly what I'm fixing this Wednesday.
Free Live Workshop THIS WEDNESDAY April 29, 8:30pm ET.
🎟️ go.matthewlabosco.com/worksh…
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.
Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.
They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.
They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.
But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.
Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”
That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.
Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.
The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.
Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.
Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.
The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.
This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.
AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.
It just solves the problem.
And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.
The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.
AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.
So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.
What they will never say is what it actually threatens.
The illusion that activity equals progress.
The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.
The machines are not coming for your purpose.
They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.
DiscoverySteve retweeted
Charlie Munger, 2017: "Marriage is the most important decision you have, not your business career. And it'll do more for you good or bad than anything else."
Forty years of psychology research is on his side. You will spend roughly 250,000 waking hours next to your spouse over a 50-year marriage. No other person comes close to that exposure, not your boss, not your best friend, not your parents. Humans are imitation machines, and your body slowly syncs with your partner's. Studies on long-term couples show their stress hormones (cortisol) and heart rate patterns gradually fall into sync, like two metronomes left on the same shelf. Your nervous system actually starts copying theirs.
In psychology, this is called self-expansion theory. Arthur Aron at Stony Brook University built the framework in the 1980s. The idea: we absorb our romantic partners into our self-concept. His "Inclusion of Other in the Self" measure has been used in hundreds of studies and shows that long-term partners stop being a separate person in our minds. Your sense of "me" grows or shrinks depending on the person you sleep next to.
John Gottman has watched thousands of couples on video at his "love lab" at the University of Washington. He can predict divorce in a 15-minute conversation with over 90% accuracy. The variable he uses: the ratio of positive to negative interactions during conflict. Stable marriages run 5 positives for every 1 negative. Marriages headed for divorce run 1:1 or worse. Every meal, every sigh, every eye-roll feeds that ratio.
Brigham Young University ran a meta-analysis (a combined study of studies) covering 148 separate studies and 308,849 people. Strong long-term relationships, especially marriage, raised survival odds by 50%. The US Surgeon General now puts the effect on par with quitting smoking 15 cigarettes a day, bigger than the effect of diet or exercise. The person you marry quietly extends or shortens your life.
This is the data Codie's tweet sits on top of. Marrying well is the operating system that runs everything else: career compounding, financial decisions, sleep quality, identity, health, longevity. All of it routes through one person, and you only pick once.
DiscoverySteve retweeted
子どもの脳は
3歳までに一生分といえるほど激変するとのこと。
普段の何気ない
「抱っこ」や「声かけ」が、
実は将来の運動神経の土台を作っているって
知ってましたか？
特別なトレーニングじゃなくて、
日々の関わり方が大切です。
DiscoverySteve retweeted
I got plenty of push back in this earlier post for stating some very basic facts - including that our EV subsidies are disproportionately benefitting the wealthy.
"30.6% of novated leases.. were taken out by motorists earning more than the top tax threshold ($190,000).
An additional 24 per cent were by those earning between $135,000 and $190,000 (the second highest tax threshold)."
China supplies more EVs to Australia than any other country.
Australia contributes to about 1% of global carbon emissions.
China contributes to about 30% of global carbon emissions.
Yet EVs are subsidised in Australia to reduce its carbon footprint.
And those subsidies disproportionately benefit wealthy Australians.
So low income taxpayers are making it cheaper for high income earners to boost China’s economy.
Whilst pretending we’re solving climate change with 1/30th of China’s emissions.