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Depends on what you want to get out of it. With X, same as other platforms, consistency is a key. Daily tweeting, ideally about trending topics related to your business os rewarded more than irregular tweets. If you can post multiple times a day, even better Aim for short and consistent catchy titles, not long elaborate articles, that's more for LinkedIn. Reposting and resharing other people's tweets is what the algorithms reward as well. It's how you start growing network by having your post re shared by bigger accounts... obviously don't expect Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to reshare so scale accordingly and find accounts that are slightly bigger but not massive. X doesn't like when you pull people away from the platform so it's all about engagement with a particular statement rather than having people, for example, click a link and download something or book a call. You're free to have that in your bio but it should not be the aim. X wants to maximise user's time on the platform so if you work against that rule, your posts won't be seen I think the best way to get started is to observe accounts you aspire towards, who do what you do but are larger. Also spend some time practicing posting for Twitter. Maybe take an interesting article and practice writing about it in 60-100 characters focusing on engagement. Gpt can be pretty good for that to help you practice and give feedback but make sure to pay for premium. Also, maybe this is more long term but don't forget about voice & tone consistency. It's not just about saying something but about how you say it and how consistent you are saying it this way. It's part of your branding - voice & tone guidelines. Throw it into GPT as well and he'll tell you more about it. It is what builds credibility with your audience and what makes your brand recognisable and trustworthy, people like being able to predict your behaviour in a way. Think of successful businesses, podcasters, they all do this in some way and when they don't, you're like "wait, that's weird, why do you say it like that" Good luck

That's fine that you think that, that wasn't the point of my comment to you. If that is indeed so, as you say, then the OP will learn that by not selling enough books or receiving constructive feedback from the reader. He will then take that feedback and consider incorporating it in his second book if he wishes. But you can't hammer over someone's product like that. I mean you can and nobody in the world will stop you, but people will shut you off if you come across like that and you'll be let wondering "why aren't they taking me seriously, I mean well" and I believe you do mean well but it is also how you say things. Its a common curtesy. Giving feedback and receiving feedback is a form of a skill. Most people can't do either properly. Most people give lousy feedback (or an aggressive one) and they get offended or run away in the face of constructive criticism. I believe you and I can see exactly what you mean, but then if it is so deep, do a proper critique not a surface level bashing. Tell him exactly where you disagree (maybe you should even get a copy of his book just to present your critique fair and square) and present the evidence to support your claims. Otherwise its just "my way or highway" type of critique. If the OP is to learn from your feedback and incorporate it in his future work then it needs to come across professionally, empathetically and respectfully regardless of your personal feelings about it. It is a skill that will be invaluable in professional life. The world won't get over it ,bruh. The world will ignore you and it will cost you potential opportunities, both personally and professionally, if you don't work on adding some softness into the way you deliver your message. I'm not triggered, I don't care, but there is a difference between being radical/liberal and being rude. Its my role as a mod to point these things out. I had to learn some of these things myself upon moving to another country and starting to work in a corporate environment. Its not about what you say but how you say it that matters to people more. Totally fine if you disagree, in that case, I'm happy to drop this conversation.

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Sounds like you have a bit of a perfectionist mindset. It can hold you down in life when you can't let go of desire for 100%. There is no need to study all your textbooks couple times just to get above 95% , that's actually pretty counterintuitive. That's a pretty destructive strategy. In the long term, grades are pretty meaningless unless they are consistently awful but any damage you do to your health will follow you like a shadow for life. Try lowering your standards a little bit and refocusing on things that are not urgent but are important. Spend this time learning about things you are likely to need in the future. Think more long term. University is also a time to socialise, bond with others, acquire new skills and start figuring out what you want from life. Put some time into your health as well - exercise, meditate and don't neglect your sleep hygiene. Maybe get yourself a used mountain bike and spend some of that textbook time outdoors instead. Or maybe get a part time internship at an interesting company to start acquiring practical experience. Good luck!

There is no need for this. All you are saying is "this book is not for me". If you can't show some appreciation for someone who has actually produced and shipped a product then don't comment at all. This isn't a constructive feedback. And this level of patronising aggressivity is not necessary either. If you have to use this sort of language then perhaps you aren't as evolved as you think you are. The lack of empathy in your comments is actually quite disgusting

That's fair, i haven't considered this to be an option but you might be right

You know counterintuitively, you see anecdotes from overweight people who went on low carb diets and their cholesterol improved, even their blood sugar went from prediabetes to normal. It is a high protein diet which is excellent for rapid weight loss. And when you lose weight, your cardiometabolic markers generally tend to improve across the board because obesity makes you sick, regardless of what diet got you to it. But then what happens is, say someone followed Keto or Atkins (somewhat similar to carnivore but includes lot of processed meat) they lost 30 pounds, cholesterol got better and at some point they achieve their normal weight and stop losing any further. From that point some evidence shows that people's cardiometabolic markers start rising up again as a result of the diet that originally helped them lose weight because of their dietary consistency - too much saturated fat, too little fibre, too little carbohydrates, insufficient unsaturated fat intake So we're always looking both long term and short term..sometimes people really need to lose weight quickly (for example when a patient is denied cardiac surgery because he is too fat and could die on the table. He gets put on Oezempic (or something similar) , bunch of other cardiac meds and probably a variation of aggressive low carb diet with tons of shakes and meal replacements. He gets the surgery, survives , but the question then is , which way next? We don't want him getting fat again. He had a primary event so he also needs to make sure his LDL is as low as possible (ofcours he'll now be put on statins for life) When looking long term (up to 36 months) the weight loss trials show the following: * 1-12 months - In the short run, low carb diets dominate weight loss studies. Fastest by far. I think on average participants in low carb compared to moderate and high carb are like 4 + kilos ahead on average? (I might be remembering it wrong) I think the most successful one of all is Jenny Craig although its very expensive and ineffective long term. * 12 - 18 months - low carb diets lose effectiveness, lose their lead and moderate carb diets like Mediterranean, Ornish or Vegetarian start catching up (there are nuances to each but that's beyond the point) Also there is a significant attrition in low carb studies at this point, some people start giving up despite losing weight because they are hard to sustain - this was nicely demonstrated by a 2022 Cochrane trial , i can get you the link you like. Having said that, all diets experience attrition but they seem to be heavier in low carb diets for some reason. * 18-36 months - , Results from all studies seem to be matched, meaning none does better or worse for weigh loss. But what happens is some diets also achieved improvements in LDL, HDL and HbA1C (blood sugar) while other diets didn't or some (in ultra low carb groups) even see a rise in LDL despite weight loss. For example we consistently see Mediterranean diet leading to more favourable cholesterol outcomes while we see low carb diets often leading the opposite way in the long term (24-36 mo) That's a very long response to a simple question that has no simple answer 😄 Also it was about a year and half since i did this deep dive so more stuff might have been published with more rigorous controls and new populations. _ Regarding your question about best resources for health optimisation and longevity - I've stopped consuming most nutritional resources at this point because you can just see all that fuckery, marketing and backwards pretzel mental gymnastics people do with studies. But... I'd love if Avi Bitterman published more content but if you want something of ridiculously high quality amd reliability, he is the man. There are some good podcasts and interviews with him on some barbed wire topics like saturated fats and cholesterol but these videos are complex and last for hours and hours. I like Lane Norton although not fan of the drama on Instagram. NutritionMadeSimple is amazing as well. Red Pen Review team is amazing, some of those guys have their own channels, check out their book reviews as well on some of the most popular books in nutrition which are just gold standard of quackery and bullshit https://www.redpenreviews.org/reviews/

Sounds like healthy eating is something you currently have to pressure yourself towards rather than gravitate towards naturally. If that's the case it could be that subconsciously you still don't value your health enough? or maybe you think you do until your willpower weakens after having whipped yourself to eat healthy for couple day. And so with the mindful "gatekeeper" off duty, you actually slide into your natural desires for junk food because that's what your current default setting is. Its not criticism at all, just something worth thinking about This is actually super super common and something we all probably experience to some degree Its almost the same as wanting to go from no-gym to 5-days a week - gym. Or wanting to go from spending 8 hours a day on social to getting rid of all social media in 24 hours. Doesn't work, the dopaminergic withdrawal is too rapid and too aggressive. Symptoms become unbearable. And so it needs to be tempered of gradually.

The word "causes" is one we need to dance carefully around but basically you could say that a combination of: high ApoB 100 includes a combination of LDL, LP(a), VLDL low HDL (although pharmacological interventions aimed at reducing secondary event through HDL elevation are much much less effective than those aimed at reducing LDL, hence why the whole "targed LDL, maintain HDL strategy") . So you could say, optimal HDL & LDL helps protect you from the first event but reducing LDL post primary event will basically save your life where increasing HDL at that point does little. elevated blood pressure (potentially anything above 115-120 / 70-80 - depending how much scrutiny you apply to the evidence) high triglycerides high blood sugar (as measured by combination HbA1C, fasted glucose and post prandial glucose & HOMA-IR), high level of central obesity (as measured by a combination of BMI, waist:hip ratio, waist circumference and reliable body fat measurement) smoking alcohol ...are all major contributors to atherosclerosis. And the longer your vascular sytem is exposed to one or more, the higher your risk - you could even say , the more coronary heart disease you get, much earlier in life because in the end atherosclerosis is unavoidable. Its one of the greatest faults of the design of the human cardiovascular system and why treatments aimed at being able to disengage oxidised ApoB from inside the arterial lumen is basically what will make us heart attack-proof. We're not there yet, although some current drugs like PCK-9 inhibitors seem to do that a bit at a cost of side effects and very high price tag but maybe this is where the future of medicine will be. The closes we have to it (naturally) seems to be concentrated punicalagin extract (pomegrenade juice - kuddos to RendHeaven & Jason for bringing this to my attention) and maybe red grapefruit juice). Maybe there are other components but I have not reviewed the data myself yet. What we are at this stage pretty clear on is the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. The mechanism itself has been explained to the most miniature details and so we can derive a lot of information from that ...and from there we need to make the next step: "what is the best & safest nutritional composition of a person's diet so that the first onset of cardiovascular disease is delayed for as long as possible by minimising the migration of ApoB containing lipoproteins inside the arterial lumen and their binding to proteoglycan structures?." Second question you could ask is: "what is the best & safest nutritional composition of a person's diet so that a healthy blood pressure of 115-120/ 70-80 is maintained and any increments are only result of natural ageing rather than dietary influence" And that is basically what this entire thread is about because we are all coming at this from different ends, with heavier focus on blood lipids than blood pressure but basically it all boils down to the "how"

I mean, the whole thing probably has 1200+ calories unless that's what you're after 🙂 Some fruit would be nice

He probably gets hundreds, even thousands of email from people about business opportunities, colabs , interviews, requests for guidance, coaching, sponsorship, adds on actualized.org and then hundreds and hundreds for young men and women with mental health struggles, difficulties in life, guys unable to find women, get laid ...you name it. Don't take it personally, he probably has to filter everything pretty aggressively Having committed conversations with random individuals on the internet that are not just some half arsed blabber but actually good quality advice would take a whole team of people to take care of. Its just not doable

Probably a bit overrated and overpriced If you adjust your diet for higher antioxidant intake, you might feel better than any mediocre benefit derived from astaxanthin pill. The evidence on antioxidant supplements in general is showing fairly poor results compared to something like Mediterranean diet. Humans seem to benefit more from food-derived antioxidants rather than supplemental ones because food comes in a bundle of nutrients, phytochemicals, antioxidants and all sorts of components stimulating secondary pathways in cells. So even though we don't fully understand what does what in terms of different molecules, we know that as a sum of its parts, it works better than isolating one and mega dosing it. it might even be harmful in some cases when we do that.

What do you think is the obstacle you're facing. Loss of motivation can be temporary but motivation alone isn't enough, you need to be prepared for hours of boring work that often feels demotivating. Maybe that could be what's causing this? It is important to revisit your "why" fairly often but also important that you don't stay on the macro level but regularly zoom in to the day to day micro of all the operational stuff

@kray i don't, sorry. We stopped working together last year

good luck! if nicotine gums don't work, try the patches instead. Someone I worked with last year found that approach incredibly helpful. I think he was cutting down by about 20% every other week and took him about 3 months to quit altogether with a few ups and downs. Hope it'll work out for you/ Also reading Alan Carrs's books could help Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life: Amazon.co.uk: Carr, Allen: 9780141039404: Books

I'm asking this with genuine interest, what made you take up smoking? I assume you had to override some form of self preservation instinct since you've been a member of the forum for a while...is it because of a girl you were dating? That's how buddy of mine took it on for example.

@Something Funny you can but it would be gross. Filtering removes certain components which are bitter, indigestible and not so tasty and spares you the cholesterol increasing effect of unfiltered coffee (there is something in unfiltered coffee that does that, don't remember what that molecule is called)

Hope you're well Judy. Here if you wanna talk to someone 👋🏻

I think making difficult life choices needs to be a combination of some intuition (gut feeling) and some rational strategic considerations. Taking the example of your house: intuition tells you something doesn't feel right. Most likely what that means is one or more of your core values are being compromised because intuition always works alongside your value system (do you know what your values are?) . Maybe it is the location because if you, for example, value solitude and isolation, then living alonside a noisy neighbourhood won't be good for you. Or if ne of your core values is connection and your house is in the middle of nowhere and there are no opportunities , then that is not good for you. - you need to spend time journaling on this not thinking. Writing things down opens up deeper areas of your cerebral cortex and helps you engage more brain pathways. Thinking isn't good enough, its too superficial, too easy to distract and thinking tends to always follow the same patterns because it conserves energy. You need to go deeper. Grab a pen and paper and write Secondly the other aspect is being strategic and rational if I am unhappy what can I do about it? where would i like to live? how much can i afford to pay per month on a rent, council tax, utilities will my expenses go up if I move? will I have to commute further? could it be that I am just bored and the movement is simply a distraction? maybe final consideration is a 3rd party opinion - ask someone else who knows you well for an opinion. Sometimes other people, especially those who are good systemic thinkers can help you think differently about issues, introduce new variables or maybe answer open questions. Anyways, hope that helps. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

I mean too much caffeine can get your heart racing so there is a balance that needs to be struck. If you do experience that, where caffeine gets your heart racing regardless of the dose, then maybe you are unlucky to be poor metaboliser. It often has to do with P450 1A2 mutation. In the long term, regular caffeine consumers have lower risk of heart disease, stroke, heart attacks and slower progression of atherosclerosis despite caffeine's tachycardic effect. I'm not really sure what the mechanism is. I would guess it is a combination of its antioxidant effects, fatty acid metabolism, potentially positive effect on HDL and maybe improved mean arterial flow but not sure. all good stuff provided you don't drink each cup with sugar. Green tea beats black tea and coffee beats both, although green tea seems to have superior effect on neurodegenerative disease risk reduction which is seen nicely in the long term Japanese cohort studies where people have been ritually consuming green team up to 5 times a day for generations. I don't know enough about matcha but what I researched hasn't impressed me, I mostly consider green tea superior to it although they both come from Camellia sinensis so maybe we just don't have enough data on matcha yet.

Those are two different career paths. Counsellor requires different education and different certification to health coach. Technically you can do both without certification but if you are not trained to work with clients and you still do (which a lot of people do) and something goes wrong, you will be completely unprotected from liability because no insurance will cover you without having a proper training. So it starts with a little bit of digging on your part Which way do you want to take it? - what is an interesting career path? What type of client do you want to work with? Are there any legal requirements in your country for that? Do you need a degree , certificate? What are your study options and costs? Are there remote study options abroad that would better match your expectations? Do they offer clinical training?> What will be your available scope of practice? Can you actually give advice to a client after completing it? (that usually requires clinical training which not all courses do) What are the career prospects? What can and can't you do with that license / degree? Working remotely is possible and doable. It cuts the costs on needing to lease an office and a variety of small tax expenses but may come across as disadvantage as certain type of people only prefer seeing their therapist in person.

It's not unhealthy unless you are more sensitive to caffeine 's effects. I assume you mean coffee and not caffeine pills? In moderate amounts, coffee is mostly beneficial over the long term for men and women both. Helps protect your liver, cardiovascular system, reduces risk of prostate and breast cancer. Where it gets tricky is when coffee starts becoming a disgusting 700 calories shake full of sugar, high fat dairy, caramel, chocolate chip cookies and crap like that. Standard black is totally fine or if milk, better to choose semi skimmed or plant based

@shree I recall you raised similar topic some time ago in relation to keto diet. Has it helped back then? I don't remember exactly the conversation we had but have you ever had any blood work done? Brain fog can come and go but if it is always persistent it might be tied to something else other than your diet. if it keeps coming back it might be worth speaking to a dietitian or someone with a bit more holistic thinking as there might be more to it than the few elements mentioned above. EDIT I went back into this post Persistent Fatigue - Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements - Actualized.org Forum and I think back there you mentioned you were exhausted balancing a career, family , 2 kids and all of that. Has that situation improved? Do you get enough sleep these days?

If you're finding it difficult to decide, you could try introducing another variable into he equation - what is likely to be more demanded by the market? Provided that you are equally passionate about art & biology, given the advancements in AI and design, you might find that specialising in a particular area of biology might make make it easier to find a job in the future and make a major contribution. With the likelihood of another pandemic, the gradual dying of species, devastation of natural habitats and ecosystems, there will be a growing need for people who are uniquely specialised to, for example, help with reintroduction of species, study the survivability of plants and animals, help do research on genetic hybridisation of fruits, vegetables, crops etc and continue doing research in the those areas etc. We will need marine biologists, more botanists, more zoologists, more doctors. And if you can uniquely position yourself in some area to do with climate changes, you are likely to be both fulfilled and in high demand. On the far note, if you do choose to specialise in an area of biology, medicine etc, you may need to go down a university route to obtain a relevant degree but if you really enjoy the subject you'll likely enjoy your studies too and being surrounded by likeminded people will make it all more fun. Ofcourse don't take that as a limiting belief and if you feel stronger about art, continue doing that on the side but at some point one of those will probably become a source of income so think about what the world is likely to demand more of, but don't sacrifice your soul while pursuing that although sometimes, temporarily that needs to happen. Its okay not to have an immediate answer just yet, your LP will be formulating for years. If it was me, with only those choices, I'd go down the biology route. Just a personal opinion. Read all the comments then make your own choice. Listen to your heart but also think of the practical implication and usefulness to the market. All the best

This ^ Obsidian or Notion are far far superior to One Note, personally I find Notion exceptional but others prefer Obsidian, they seem similar in how they work although Obsidian has that cool mind map which Notion doesn't and more plugins. The limitation to customisation you can do in One Note compared to Obsidian/Notion is what pushed me away from MS. It just couldn't do what I needed.