gabriel

Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.

Your thought patterns aren't just habits— they're prophecies, and what looks like a harmless habit today is actually destiny under construction.

Your mind isn't creating thoughts—your thoughts are creating your mind. Every time you revisit a particular thought loop, you're voting for it to become your default operating system.

Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism. The rest of us just weren't watching closely enough to see the training program running in the background. We thought they were just being... See more

Most people fuse themselves to negative loops— fear and paranoia as the lead roles in their private B-movies.

But some people default to happiness. You know, those people who seem to manifest good fortune out of nowhere. Life bends toward them like plants to sunlight. Problems solve themselves. Doors unlock. People lean in to help. Not because the... See more

If you want new skittles (reality), you have to update your assembly line (your personality or beliefs), and source new ingredients (different friends, new job, dump girlfriend, replace with chatbot, double your dosage, move to Ecuador, become a shaman, visit Capuchin monkey sanctuary, decide they’re your pets, become monkey influencer, burn out,... See more