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Neuroplasticity isn’t just about complex skills or learning new languages. The fastest way to spark cognitive flexibility is injecting tiny friction into daily, automatic habits.
Game Theory by Yale University.
Probably the most important 60 minutes on human behavior and leverage you will ever watch:
Game theory teaches: never enter a game you haven’t studied. Never show your hand before the money is on the table. And never play to be liked. Play to build so much leverage that the rules eventually stop applying to you entirely. Most people lose not because they are outworked but because they are outplayed. They do not understand the game they are in, they reveal too much too soon and they care more about approval than position. Learn the game first. Move quietly. Build until you have enough leverage to write your own rules.
Neuroplasticity is proof that identity isn’t a life sentence.
Your brain doesn't stop building pathways just because you grew up. As long as what you want doesn’t require the biology of an Olympic gymnast, you can learn, adapt, and build an entirely different life in your twenties, thirties, or beyond. You don’t find a new self. You wire one.
Read banned books before they are burnt.
Read banned books before they are burnt.
Read banned books before they are burnt.
Read banned books before they are burnt.
Read banned books before they are burnt.
Game theory teaches: never enter a game you haven’t studied. Never show your hand before the money is on the table. And never play to be liked. Play to build so much leverage that the rules eventually stop applying to you entirely. Most people lose not because they are outworked but because they are outplayed. They do not understand the game they are in, they reveal too much too soon and they care more about approval than position. Learn the game first. Move quietly. Build until you have enough leverage to write your own rules.
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Most people think book bans are high school library drama.
They don't know about the books that were seized at international borders, burned in customs furnaces, or carried death sentences for the authors who wrote them.
Here are 10 of the most brutal and heavily banned books in history: 🧵
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Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Banned in the US and the UK for nearly 30 years. Thousands of imported copies were confiscated and physically torched by customs officers. It took over 60 individual court cases across American cities before the Supreme Court ruled that explicit prose does not equal illegal pornography.
Bonus Mention:
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
The most rigorously suppressed ideological text of the 20th century. Following World War II, the state of Bavaria held the copyright and weaponized it to legally block any reprint for 70 years. Banned or heavily criminalized across Austria, Germany, and parts of post-war Europe, it wasn't allowed back into German print until 2016, and even then, only within a heavily annotated, 2,000-page academic edition dismantling its propaganda line by line.
