This is the most powerful experiment on human potential:

The Pygmalion Effect.

It’s the true root cause why most people stay stuck, depressed, and never reach their true potential…

Here's a 4-step protocol to break the cycle today: 🧵 1964. A small elementary school in California.

Psychologist Robert Rosenthal walks in with a dangerous question:

"What if intelligence isn’t fixed?"

What if it’s malleable—and can be changed by nothing more than belief?

People are now using “Buy Now, Pay Later” for $1000 Coachella tickets, $10 burritos, and even $4 Starbucks drinks.

No interest.
No credit check.
No strings attached.

You've been lied to.

BNPL is actually one of the sneakiest money scams ever built... Let me explain: (THREAD)🧵 As a Vietnamee, BNPL is just starting to grow in Vietnam.

But in the West?

You can now finance burritos, deodorant, and even concert tickets.

This isn't just about money. It's about psychology, debt, and what no one teaches you in school.

Let’s break it down...

One night in 1899, Nikola Tesla detected some mysterious signals from his tower.

He believed it came from Mars, Jupiter, or even aliens from another universe.

What he heard was much more fascinating: [THREAD] 🧵 Nikola Tesla was already famous in 1899.

His electrical inventions changed the world.

But that year, alone in his Colorado Springs lab, something happened that haunted him forever.

Something he couldn't explain...

You can't think your way out of anxiety, depression, stress, or overthinking...

They are not in your head, but also not in your genes...

Pills numb the alarm while the fire burns.

Here's a guide to detox the organ that is destroying your mental health: 🧵
Let's envision someone named Tina.

CEO of a tech startup.
Crushing it professionally.

Heart pounding over emails.
But waking up at 3 AM with ruminations.
Convinced she was "just an anxious person."

Familiar?

This was Winston Churchill's darkest WWII secret.

Inside this hidden bunker, 6 men were buried alive to spy on Hitler's troops.

Exiled from the world with only 7 years of supplies

Their story was classified for decades...

Welcome to Operation Tracer: 🧵 By 1940, Europe was in chaos:

- France had fallen.
- Italy joined Hitler.
- Britain stood alone.

Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mediterranean, was the lifeline.

Lose it, and Allied supply routes would collapse.

In the 1900s, the UK controlled the world

• London was THE financial capital
• Controlled 1 in 4 people on Earth
• The pound was like gold

Today?

• Currency is dying
• Billionaires are leaving
• GDP growth is negative

The warnings were obvious & everywhere 🧵 1. The empire that built the modern economy

In 1870, Britain made up 9% of global GDP.
By 1950, it was still 6%.

Today? Just 3.2%.

150 years of decline—masked by finance and the City of London boom.

Let me explain:

This is Malaysia:

– 0% capital gains tax & 0% inheritance tax:
– Cheaper than Singapore, just one bridge away
– Birthplace of Grab & controls 25% og global trade

Once just a backwater, today, it’s Asia’s most strategic economic hub.

Their transformation story was wild 🧵 Malaysia isn’t trying to out-China China.

Instead, it’s mastered the long game with 5 quiet advantages:

1. Strategic geography
2. Strong infrastructure
3. Low cost of living
4. Global trust
5. Policy consistency

And it’s paying off.

In the 1970s, Malaysia had a choice:

Einstein is one of the smartest and most famous people ever alive.

He once said:

“Two things are infinite:
The universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Here are his 7 habits for thinking like a genius—you can try today: 🧵
Einstein's brain was studied for decades after death.

The only difference? His parietal lobe was 15% wider.

But millions have similar brain variations.

What made Einstein special was HOW he used his brain, not WHAT brain he had.

Let me explain...

In 1989, Japan ruled the world

• GDP per capita beat America's
• 8 of the 10 biggest companies were Japanese
• Tokyo real estate was worth more than all of California

Today?

• Growth is flat
• Wages are stuck
• Population shrinking

The signs were obvious & everywhere🧵 1. America rebuilt Japan — then regretted it

After WWII, Japan was in ruins.

The US feared communism, so they pumped in aid, broke up monopolies, and rebuilt Japan into an export machine.

From 1953 to 1970, Japan’s exports grew 380%.

It was the greatest comeback story ever.

On his deathbed, surrounded by government agents, prodigy John von Neumann (190+ IQ) made one final confession...

His worst fear wasn't WWIII, nuclear wars, nor zombie apocalypses...

It's something 4 in 10 Americans can't suffer from today.

His last words left me thinking🧵 John von Neumann was a true genius.

• Could divide 8-digit numbers in seconds
• Spoke 6 languages by age 6
• Remembered every word he ever read

But his final words would shock everyone.

And still haunt us today...

I'm Vietnamese.

I got my US-accredited (WASC) high school diploma in 1.5 years at 16—from my bedroom in Vietnam costing under $80/mo.

All you need:

• Wifi
• A Laptop
• Basic English

Here's how I did it (and how anyone can copy me): 🧵 Ok first, I want to make this VERY VERY clear:

This path is not made for everyone.

I just want to share this so someone in my position 2 years ago would find it helpful.

If you're fed up with school or homeschooling, this might be helpful.

Here's the 5 steps process:

"Boomers are workaholics"
"Gen X need work-life balance"
"Millennials are overthinking & anxious"

"And Gen Z are hopeless..." As a 20 y.o who got his bachelor's at 18 and working w/ all generations, I can't lie:

Gen Z in workspace is the strangest social experiment yet:🧵 Quick context: I'm Gen Z myself.

Homeschooled in Vietnam at 15, finished university at 18 with @SNHU, now I am a writer on X.

I've worked with every generation - and yeah, some of the worst (and best) coworkers were Gen Z.

But here's what nobody talks about...

This man heals what therapists can't:

Irvin Yalom.

He spent years facing his inner demons until one realization...

Now, by unlocking the "4 Ultimate Concerns", he has cured millions from anxiety, guilt, and overthinking.

Here's his philosophy: 🧵
Before his breakthrough, Yalom was trapped in his own existential crisis.

Despite being a successful psychiatrist at Stanford, he was plagued by death anxiety and the meaninglessness of traditional therapy.

He'd help patients for years just symptom management.

In 1939, A research team began secretly stealing identical twins.

• The kids knew nothing.
• The adoptive parents knew nothing.
• Some were blocks apart. Some were in the same classroom.

Over 50 years later... The patterns they witnessed blew me away🧵
The mastermind?

Dr. Peter Neubauer, a child psychiatrist who fled Nazi Austria.

Ironically, he would go on to conduct one of the most ethically questionable studies in American history.

His goal?

End the nature vs. nurture debate once and for all.

This is fascinating...

In 2010, Netflix was supposed to kill streaming piracy.

Instead, it became cable 2.0—fragmented, overpriced, and annoying.

Now piracy is back…bigger than ever... and here to stay...

Here's the psychological flaw that broke streaming: 🧵 Netflix promised unlimited content for $8/month.

For a few years, it worked. Why bother pirating when everything was in one place? Then… the streaming wars began...

In 1954, a psychologist took 22 normal boys to summer camp.

In just days, these 11-year-olds were stealing, burning flags, and raiding each other's cabins.

What went wrong?

Welcome to the Robber Cave Experiment and the dark side of psychology: 🧵 Born in 1906 in the Ottoman Empire, Muzafer Sherif was no ordinary scientist.

He studied at Harvard in the 1920s, became anti-fascist in the 1930s, and got in trouble for being a communist in Turkey in the 1940s.

He had a big question in mind:

In 1913, Carl Jung had visions so terrifying that he thought he was going insane.

Blood floods. Millions dead. Europe destroyed.

One year later, WWI began.

Here was what he saw that night—and why he wasn't the only one: 🧵 October 1913.

Jung was traveling by train when a horrific vision struck: A monstrous flood covering all of Europe. Thousands of corpses floating in yellow waves.

He gripped his seat, thinking: "I'm losing my mind."

Then August 1914 happened.

This man could read your mind in 30 seconds.

The FBI hired him.
Doctors called him impossible.

Yet most people have never heard of Milton Erickson.

Here's how he decoded humans like no one else: 🧵
His story is like no other...

Polio left him unable to move anything but his eyes. For months, he could only watch.

That's when he noticed something that would change psychology forever...

Psychiatrists don't want you to know this...

But a social worker with no medical degree healed "incurable" families in weeks.

Virginia Satir's banned methods exposed why 90% of therapy fails.

Her banned method exposed psychiatry's $300 billion lie: 🧵
Virginia Satir grew up poor in rural Wisconsin.

Her parents barely spoke.
Family dinners were silent.

By age 5, she made a decision:

"I'll become a detective of parents."

She had no idea she'd change therapy forever...

Most people spend their whole lives trying to "find themselves."

Nietzsche said that's the biggest lie psychology ever sold you 150 years ago.

You're not lost. You're just refusing to find your true self.

Here's how to CREATE yourself instead: 🧵
In 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche collapsed in Turin, Italy.

He'd seen a horse being whipped and threw his arms around it, sobbing.

They found him days later, completely insane, writing letters signed "The Crucified."

But before his mind shattered, he left us a terrifying truth...

Every "problem adult" I've met has the same invisible wound.

• They're not spoiled.
• They're not immature.
• They're not manipulative.

They're emotionally starving—and most people have no idea.

I've found a Harvard study that reveals the heartbreaking reality:🧵 Think about a hungry child.

They're restless, demanding, can't focus on anything meaningful.

They'll chase after any stranger with food, crave distractions, and their behavior completely falls apart.

Now think about your "difficult" child...