Ed Latimore
@EdLatimore
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Former heavyweight boxer with a degree in physics | Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business: Boxing and The Art of Life out this summer. Pre-order now 👇
Joined January 2012
Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves.
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This isolation is making a lot of people realize:. 1) They don't really have any hobbies.2) They don't really have any friends, just drinking partners.3) They don't really even like themselves.4) No one really likes them either.
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Propaganda vs democracy. What they want you to like vs. What you actually like.
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9 years sober today. This continues to be the best decision I've ever made.
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This chart has been living rent-free in my head. A lot of mindsets and attitudes can be explained by this, and many social conflicts can be predicted as well.
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6 years sober today. December 23 is like my second birthday.
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How brainwashed must you be to believe that more money doesn't make you happier?. I'm not talking going from 6 to 7 figures. I'm talking:. -From the poverty line to the middle class.-From food stamps to fine dining.-From EBT to BTC. Be poor for a while. Then don't be. Then talk.
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I've lost more friends getting my shit together than I ever did when I was a degenerate. There is a brutal lesson in that.
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No clue for women, but for men:. <16% body fat.50 push-ups.10 pull-ups.Bench bodyweight.Squat 1.5x bodyweight.Deadlift 1.75x bodyweight.<7 min mile.<5.5 sec 40-yd dash.30 secs standing on one leg (each leg).
What are some fitness standards the average person should strive for?.
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I grew up in the public housing projects and learned some hard lessons so you didn't have to. Here are 11 things I learned from growing up in the hood, surrounded daily by crackheads, gangbangers, poverty, and death. Thread.
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Remove alcohol from the occasion and you'll be shocked at how many people don't really have a personality.
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The #Epstein suicide just makes you angry. These people have so much power they can make shit like this happen. And yes, I'm going full conspiracy. Dude just hung himself in a solitary cell?? GTFOH. If you believe that, I got some oceanfront property in Idaho to sell you.
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Coffee so black Planned Parenthood wants to stop it from being made.
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What a time to self-quarantine. -Netflix.-Amazon.-Youtube.-Kindle.-Workouts.-Social media. You should not get bored. You should come out of this a little better. Think of it like prison. All you get to do is workout and read books. PLUS you can drop the soap and be ok.
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I've personally witnessed a crackhead:. -Get hit by a car and walk away.-Jump out a 3 story building and hit the ground running.-Eat out of a dumpster.-Drink stagnant green water. I've never seen a crackhead at the hospital. Big Pharma doesn't want you to know about this.
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Today marks 7 years without a drop of alcohol. Today is like my second birthday.
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Real talk. Twitter makes you love people you've never met and Facebook makes you hate people you've known your whole life.
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If you've got a decent family situation, be grateful. You won. You're so far ahead of the game that you can actually backtrack and still be ahead of where people like me start. If you enjoyed this thread, follow me and RT the parts that really resonated with you. @EdLatimore.
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Being well-informed only ruins your day. Staying up-to-date on current events is overrated. Unless you make money from the mischief, your quality of life goes down as your news consumption goes up.
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Thinkers look heartless to feelers. Feelers look stupid to thinkers.
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Most haters are vocal.Most supporters are silent.So keep doing what you do. Someone is watching and cheering for you.Someone is learning from and supporting all you do. .
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Watching the news is the mental equivalent of smoking cigarettes.
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-Eggs are bad for you.-Margarine is healthier than butter.-Low-fat is good for you.-Get most of your carb calories from grain . If you trusted the government's nutrition advice for the past 3 decades, you're probably a mess.
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Four lessons from 36 years of life. 1) Never underestimate the power of being likeable.2) The difficulty of a task is irrelevant if it's vital to your success.3) You can learn anything given enough time.4) Self-discipline and self-control determine the quality of your life.
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I once watched a family member legit complain about not having enough money to pay bills after buying weed. He got mad at me for pointing out that he'd be able to make rent if he didn't buy weed. Correct a wise man & he appreciates you. Correct a fool & he resents you.
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If you like me, you're gonna love the sequel!. My son came blazing into the world strong as hell last night.
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The more intelligent you are, the more you consider what can go wrong. This awareness often leads to inaction. This is why sharp intellect must be married to wicked resolve and indomitable courage to be most effective.
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Here are the 10 most common logical fallacies that the government, media, and big corporations are using on you to keep you angry, confused, and terrified. There’s a reason these aren’t taught in school. Once you recognize them, you’ll no longer be so easy to manipulate.
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Stimulus checks all last year. Inflation this year. And most people don't understand economics so they will never understand the correlation and connection. Nothing is free.
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The older you get, the more your body shows off your bad habits. By the time you turn 30, you either look 25 or 40.
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Journalism died when money became more important than facts.
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Reading is free. Exercise is free. Hard work is free. In both opportunity and real cost, it's more expensive to be dumb, fat, and broke.
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If the only way you can make money with your degree is to become a professor teaching the subject. Then you have--by definition--joined a pyramid scheme.
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Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.
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A big problem today is that dumb people talk too much and smart people not enough.
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Most people don't want to make themselves better. They want the world to be more forgiving.
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The most powerful "lifehack" I know is this:. Take responsibility for everything. Even for things that seem to "randomly" happen to you. This changes your thinking and forces you to consider the extent and effect of EVERYTHING you do.
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You're not an adult until you can look at your childhood without it being an excuse.
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There's a lot of money in keeping you basic, fat, and broke. Netflix--the $152B company--says its greatest competitor is sleep. The last thing the pharmaceutical, sports, entertainment, and fast food industry want you to do is get mentally, physically, and emotionally fit.
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Your poor social skills cost you more than lack of any technical ability ever will.
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It's true. Some robbers broke into my boy's crib. They had AKs and Teks. But he pulled out an insurance policy and they got so scared they shit themselves. They were so embarrassed they left, but not before apologizing.
There are far better ways to protect your family than a gun. Get a life insurance policy.
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8 years sober today. February 15th, 1985 is my first birthday. December 23rd, 2013 is my second birthday. Here's to another trip around the sun of sound body, mind, and health.
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When you defund the police, only the people with money get the police. Bet they didn't see that one coming.
Minneapolis Council members get private security after threats.
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2. Weakness brings trouble. If people think they can take advantage of you or hurt you, they will. Human nature is fucked up like that. If you're gonna be kind, you need to be strong, because there are terrible people who will take your kindness for weakness. They will test you.
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There's a whole generation of kids growing up thinking that feelings are the basis of a sound argument. Logic is as rare as common sense.
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Twitter exposes how shitty people's reading comprehension is. A lot of these disagreements are because people can't read. They will argue with you about something you didn't say or imply. Or worse. Miss what you actually did say and choose something out of left field to debate.
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1. Good manners never make a situation worse. If you mess up, all you gotta do is say "my bad" and people will keep it moving a lot of times. But if you don't even acknowledge that you offended or accidentally bumped into someone, that's often gonna be your ass.
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I'm done with arguing with people over the internet. If you don't like me, just swing on me when you see me and we'll take it from there.
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Mfs turn 30 & think their body is falling apart. Nah, you just haven't stretched since grade school.
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You don't realize how valuable your health is until you're fighting to restore it.
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"Entrepreneurs are the only people who will work 80 hrs/wk to avoid working 40.".
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Here’s a dirty secret about people:. Most of them don’t know what to think and they’re waiting for someone to tell them. This unpopular truth underpins the workings of everything from politics to religion and street gangs to advertisements.
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Here's one thing I don't get about the #JussieSmollettHoax:. Why not just make some shit up? Like, just leave the people to believe it really happened--and they would have because they're NPCs. The fake letter, paying homies to kick your ass, and talking to feds. Y tho?.
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How twisted do you have to be to stage an attack on yourself using slurs for your own people and sexual orientation?. #JussieSmollettHoax.
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Crackheads hustle 4 days straight to get a rock. No sleep and no food. You ever work that hard for something?. Don't get outworked by a crackhead.
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Call it the Black Plague, no one bats at eye. Call it the Chinese Flu, everyone loses their mind.
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Most people are unaware of the role they play in their own problems.
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Most people don't want freedom. They want security. They don't want choices. They want directions.
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The weaker you are, the more dishonest you have to be to survive. This is why you can't trust weak people. Deception and disloyalty is basically their only means of survival.
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When the CEO of Netflix said that their only competition is sleep, that really underscored how plugged in most people are.
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It's possible to be liberal on some things, conservative on others, or not have an opinion at all. People are too eager to make their entire personality and all of their perspectives fit neatly into a binary box.
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Rules for loaning money:. 1) Don't do it.2) If you do, mentally consider it a gift. If you see it again, consider that a gift as well.3) If you aren't in a position to lose it, don't loan it. Even if you follow rule 2, you'll feel resentment.4) No one is exempt from these rules.
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If combat sports were mandatory in school, we'd have a more peaceful society. People don't appreciate violence and how easy it is to hurt a person. They don't appreciate real physical pain caused by punches with bad intentions. To them, these worldstar videos are a game.
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The world is a depressing place if you look for depressing shit. The world is a beautiful place if you look for beautiful stuff.
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Hahahaha they're trying to cancel Eminem?. They must not have listened to his old shit.
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A general rule of life:. If you run away from something & it catches up to you, it will be 10x worse than if you had just faced it head-on.
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There’s no deeper hell than being fully aware you’re wasting your potential.
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You can't trust the media to inform you. It's too damn politicized. Critical thinking is your only weapon in this war of madness.
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Coffee so black the cops turn off their body cams when they drink it.
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7. Dealing with trauma is a privilege. Life has always been hard. But when you're busy surviving, you don't have time to worry about that. Even if it's holding you back. A lot of what I witnessed was likely people just trying to survive the best way they knew how to.
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The weak seek revenge. The strong forgive. The intelligent ignore.
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"Must be nice" is the most passive-aggressive hater shit you can say to someone who shares good news with you.
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Don't underestimate the power of having your gym easy to get to.
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Men loved:. Alien.Terminator 2: Judgement Day.Kill Bill.Edge of Tommorow.Resident Evil.Hannah . Make good movies. Gender doesn't matter.
Why is it that men don't really care about movies with female leads?.
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Young Men,. Be ambitious, but I'm telling you:. Some of your happiest moments will be living with 4 other dudes in a place barely fit for crackheads and eating Ramen & canned tuna. You'll never want to go back, but it's where you hopefully learn that money does not buy happiness.
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There's a thin but clear line between enjoying your youth and fucking up your future.
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Bobby Fisher was once asked, “What do you like the most about chess?”. The reporters expected a model-perfect answer like, “The way the game challenges your mind." . Fischer replied, “The look on my opponent's face when he knows it’s over and there’s nothing he can do it about.”.
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