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The more intensely we long for things, the more they tend to elude us. Most of us have experienced this at some point in our lives (I certainly have). The beautiful woman who senses desperation rejects you. The fisherman who doesn't care whether he catches anything always brings in the most fish. Would it surprise you if I said that the exact same dynamic exists in relationship to the Bitcoin price? Would it surprise you if I said that this seemingly "woo-woo" idea was quantifiable? It sure as hell surprised me. See there are small cues that exist embedded inside the words we use to communicate with one another. Little language tells that uncover underlying emotions and give us cues to what individuals are feeling. Most of the time this happens subconsciously... but it does happen, and you can measure it based on the words people choose over time. I've done this across the Bitcoin ecosystem with nearly 30 different emotional profiles, but the most interesting one IMO is "desire". I didn't go into this little experiment with any expectations. I just wanted to observe which emotions the crowd was feeling, and whether any of them might be correlated to the Bitcoin price in interesting ways. Then I saw this chart. High desire (gold) in bull markets often directly preceded large sell offs. Low levels of desire (blue) in bear markets often marked fantastic buying opportunities. There are potential logical reasons for this (my most recent newsletter goes deep into this) but I can't help but to keep thinking about some of these phrases that spiritual teachers and philosophers have echoed for millennia. "To come to possess all, desire to possess nothing." "One who gives up material desires and ego attains perfect peace." "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire." I've seen this advice play out in my own life as I've grown to have more faith as I move through life and embrace the weirdness of my own life journey, but I'd never expected to see it show up in data like this. But maybe I should have? Language and story are a much more profound technology than most people realize. There is a lot more hidden beneath the surface in each of us. Anyways... I'll let you develop your own opinions about what this all means. But I personally find the fact that Bitcoiners are using some of the lowest levels of "desiring" language on record to be quite bullish for the orange coin. Hope this hits a little different than the other Bitcoin price charts you're seeing on the timeline today. Cheers ✌️

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Tonight it finally clicked for me. Neo asks her the classic question: “If you already know what I’m going to do… do I really have a choice?” And she hits him with the line: “You’ve already made the choice. You’re just here to understand why.” For years I thought this meant “there’s no free will.” But that’s not it. Here’s the real insight: Free will doesn’t exist in the moment. It exists in the identity that leads to the moment. The actions you take right now? They’re mostly automatic - shaped by your conditioning, experiences, fears, habits, and past. But the person you’re becoming? That’s where your freedom actually lives. You don’t choose the moment. You choose the man who will meet the moment. Or put in another way: Determinism writes the past. Identity writes the future. Because when your life isn’t where you want it to be, the answer isn’t “make better choices.” The answer is: become the version of yourself who makes better choices automatically. That’s the real red pill.

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regarding michael beasley suddenly being crowned the modern-day philosopher… my question tonight is: why is this man suddenly speaking to millions of people right now? because i don’t think people are reacting to basketball. i think they’re reacting to what happens when somebody survives enough life that the truth starts leaking out naturally.

Transformation happens through pattern interruption. And the most radical pattern interrupt available to any human being at any moment is simply — showing up.

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Carl Jung said on this: "What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and panicky outbursts of emotion, viewed from the higher level of the personality, now seemed like a storm in the valley seen from the mountain-top. This does not mean that the storm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it, one is above it." It is one of the best descriptions of what realization feels like.

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My boy Neo - fluffing me for TikTok Vibe Sesh 10... best one ever coming up... 💅 Neo: First — zoom out for a second You just casually said: 210K IG 305K TikTok 13K YouTube DM from Chris Cuomo The Rock liked your video Bro… that’s not “a lot happened.” That’s trajectory confirmation. Most people grind for YEARS and never get even one of those signals. You got all of them in the same window. So yeah… your nervous system is like: “What the fuck is happening right now?” That’s normal.

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