2026-09-09T11:09:43Z https://nostr.now RobBrinded https://nostr.now/npub1de8jsek5aykkng5ytlvhvjxjwmdnpjwjcly0q6mu3566tfm00g5sfy0ezd https://m.primal.net/QCvN.gif https://m.primal.net/QCvN.gif https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy465h7c9j3eqa89ada2eyzv2mljkqf0hzadvvh3vp6kq700jk7qczyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjr5nmvc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrswn9t5y97zt4rtr6qlu35afkf5z2y8phycw5zqw7g27279jl9yqt9f5c9'>nevent1q…f5c9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks for this - will read 🙏 2026-10-14T15:11:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy0pfwyfexm7a2zlwung6gha4tyujnzzargc2vk6akg7y6m5cyl9qzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjlrrccg Family time ❤️<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/d472f194c0e5ca3074834414bf765c096058d8947626fb4ee3cb0f6c95157202.mov"></video> 2026-09-08T20:38:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstzqfeykvt589djz3dmjwea7z7r2glhshrzslldzdrac2w2p9thnqzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazj8e8ru9 Both learned helplessness (Left side of the wheel) and compulsive behaviour (Right side of the wheel) are maladaptive outcomes of inescapable stress (The Wheel)<br/><br/>Both wreck your energy &amp; health. <br/><br/>#raypeat #bioenergetics #health #psychology<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/467053a8cddc358fb429bb4e3899cba5a761a9b1c790b7eaf580545b730f8d16.gif"> 2026-09-08T09:24:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrdfnc60qctrwt35rggcn45ftcrq6wxxnrynfdrh9ekyuxrvyrgfczyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjs49r04 Relaxation takes energy 2026-07-23T13:50:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszg6u4ty80m5fcs24nvm4dw66cwkrc6ps07eml9rqgdsscsdskwfczyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazj3l9pud I&#39;ve spent my life being the helper.<br/><br/>Always the expert. Always achieving. Always doing, because somewhere along the way I learned that being useful was how you earned love.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve realised I don&#39;t know what I actually enjoy.<br/><br/>I&#39;m in that right now. And it&#39;s the most uncomfortable and honest place I&#39;ve ever been.<br/>The drive has gone. Not dipped, gone. And I can&#39;t go back onto the wheel because I can finally see it for what it is. A fake life. The trade offs no longer work.<br/><br/>What I&#39;m left with is an emptiness.<br/><br/>It feels so alien to not strive, not be constantly doing in order to be seen as special or to be someone.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know what I enjoy and I now have to wait to feel what that actually feels like.<br/>A driven life without enjoyment is a prison, a hellish hamster wheel. It took me a while to see that truth and now I cannot unsee it.<br/><br/>Yesterday I danced to some old tracks by the pool. I went for a walk in the beautiful countryside which filled my senses so fully. Most of what I do right now is nothing.<br/><br/>I&#39;m just fully present.<br/><br/>Maybe that&#39;s where it starts. 2026-06-02T18:22:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszrn8ctrsc0xr3pg9gvpz0vdxch26ylqumnazlczuuqqv3u3dkm6gzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjn4pyzg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvr2774hxnmyhhg6scxecezum3y0v0704984qmsdfl7ptvrns69jcpydmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtmnd9jhyunp945hvmmj0y73mgs0'>nevent1q…mgs0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks Troy - primal on desktop is giving me so many issues right now. Should have gone through it properly 🙏 2026-04-15T17:03:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0xuzmy3edx56qde27duf5j8qxm4uwq3t7c7q2cszsujhw4ey84jqzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjvln89k Rob here.<br/>The Inner Circle is live.<br/><br/>If you&#39;ve been sitting with your pattern -- the one that keeps showing up no matter how much you understand it -- this is the next step.<br/><br/>There are 10 Founding Member spots. That&#39;s not a device. It&#39;s the number I can actually work with at this level. When they&#39;re gone, the price goes up. The community stays open -- but the founding rate locks permanently for the people who took it.<br/><br/>What founding members get that nobody else will:<br/>The rate is locked for life. Everything lives in one app -- the live weekly sessions, the full Glitch video course, Q&amp;A, the archive, and a community of people doing the actual work, not just reading about it. It&#39;s on your phone. It goes where you go.<br/><br/>The difference between this and reading the book: the book shows you the map. The community is where you navigate in real time, with other people who can see the wheel you&#39;re on when you can&#39;t.<br/><br/>If that&#39;s you, go here now: <a href="https://members.robbrinded.com/inner-circle">https://members.robbrinded.com/inner-circle</a><br/><br/>10 spots at this price. First in, permanently in at this rate.<br/><br/>Rob 2026-03-20T18:03:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9gys5x24yrnt7wnrnxtugry5xyzhpx9t37063kk8pfnv8nqkwn0gzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjeaz4f0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5fvcyypja9ly98cguy87n3fdgm35z9qzekl0ulxcsd9gr9yedwggmsp6m'>nevent1q…sp6m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Saying the wallet isn’t set up yet 2026-02-27T10:27:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspzxh78xtldl44g8zvj49shqyhgzwn4l85s83hcryzplc2t0u4vrszyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjz5xptr Download this into your veins #heartvibe <br/><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/fb9397ba5b36a41d5e65b35f5e2625873efdf180e91638bdc6d3442b99f6eb05.mp4"></video> 2026-02-07T21:09:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstr2vd3rxjqd05txtwq266wdvn0jdlaw4jlwweqgxyp25xte676pszyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjw9gugy Your suffering isn&#39;t random. It has exactly five cogs. ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ <br/><br/>Naval Ravikant said something brilliant about David Deutsch&#39;s work:<br/>&#34;Good explanations are hard to vary.&#34;<br/><br/>When you look back on a truly good explanation, you think: &#34;How could this have been otherwise? This is the only way this thing could work.&#34;<br/><br/>The iPhone is hard to vary. The aeroplane wing is hard to vary. The electric car design is hard to vary.<br/><br/>They&#39;re all constrained by reality itself: physics, aerodynamics, human hands. You can&#39;t just change them without losing what makes them work.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s what I realised after 30 years of debugging human consciousness:<br/><br/>Human suffering has exactly five shapes. Not four. Not six. Five.<br/><br/>The Five Hamster Wheel System isn&#39;t something I invented. It&#39;s something I discovered, like finding the periodic table of human programming.<br/><br/>Gain/Loss<br/>Able/Unable<br/>Right/Wrong<br/>Support/Let Down<br/>Attention/Ignore<br/><br/>Every pattern of suffering I&#39;ve ever encountered, from Premier League players to Olympic athletes to struggling parents, fits into one of these five binary wheels.<br/><br/>I tried to find a sixth. I looked for years. It doesn&#39;t exist.<br/><br/>I tried to collapse them into four. They won&#39;t collapse. Each wheel is distinct, irreducible.<br/><br/>The framework is hard to vary because it&#39;s mapping to something real: the actual architecture of how childhood survival programming gets written into your nervous system.<br/><br/>When I show someone their specific wheel, they don&#39;t say &#34;interesting theory.&#34; They say &#34;Holy shit, you just described my entire life.&#34;<br/><br/>That&#39;s not because I&#39;m clever. It&#39;s because the explanation is constrained by reality. It&#39;s hard to vary because it&#39;s true.<br/><br/>Naval talks about how good knowledge is fractal. You meet it at the level you&#39;re ready to receive it. You might get 20% the first time, 25% the second time.<br/><br/>That&#39;s exactly how &#34;Glitch&#34; works.<br/><br/>First read: you recognise your dominant wheel.<br/>Second read: you see how your parents ran the same wheel.<br/>Third read: you catch yourself spinning in real-time and step into admin mode.<br/><br/>The framework doesn&#39;t change. Your depth of understanding does.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re ready to see the five patterns that are running your life (not theory, but the actual code), grab the book here: link in bio<br/><br/>It&#39;s hard to vary because human programming is hard to vary.<br/><br/>Rob<br/><br/>P.S. The reason therapy often fails isn&#39;t because therapists aren&#39;t trying. It&#39;s because they&#39;re working without the map. They&#39;re treating symptoms without seeing the underlying wheel structure. Once you see the five wheels clearly, everything else makes sense. That&#39;s what &#34;hard to vary&#34; explanations do: they make the complex suddenly simple.<br/><br/>#consciousness #psychology #naval #selfawareness #trauma<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/7fad250c8898cd30236116b17edd101747359df5c2789e2aea053855718ea000.png"> 2025-10-03T09:15:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxctkzs9z4mkpqwklfq5vcfnzkc05qvxvz9780cw4zxetsppzxvagzyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjh38n76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2cwuky8pfpm4a0p4lcq5ndnxzf6cmya80xnlunucv9ag5zzkmnjcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdu7psv8q'>nevent1q…sv8q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks so much Avi - going to celebrate with the girls now by the pool 😃 2025-09-18T12:15:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfmnyd9hv5wahkwa2v635z4t8mzwapkw037dygufepvu2p8nc3sgczyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjp8kxgd How I dissolve my own, and clients procrastination, plus some other thoughts 🙏 <br/> <video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/af8c8f53711aeb71f3cc0b501140d2d57ac50e968a848f6440ea7ae6b91755ab.mp4"></video> 2025-07-03T10:37:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxef6fmuj7mf9t26ha22s47ellmwhtkqmcd8ehgsazrl3c7ztp8lszyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjs8xczr Who&#39;s raising your kids? <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qyg8wumn8ghj7efwdehhxtnvdakz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyzamwg4fn250duwtcd05d0rq06la5x0nv0vpgf4g73ya5nt3726v68y7kgm" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>A Place To Be</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…7kgm</span>)</a></span> #unschooling #homeschooling #problemsolvingkids #nextlevellearning<br/> <video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/094601d7c4f1794e1c824d5ff2447cda000de0531dcb19fce13ee6617f5e50c7.mp4"></video> 2025-06-30T11:57:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsww525ms8dsug3u686mj508wplnjmdcmva0qpu7p6qnryqx9wmkfszyphy72rx6n5j66dzs30ajajg6fmdkvxf6tru3urt0jxntfd8daazjaa46y0 This spring I will mostly be focusing on my tight hips. Lots of issues in my tissues.<br/><br/> <img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcW1uYm9mN2Qxbzd5ZG4ydnJxMnRiZGV5anJsYTZ3cmxhZThsMGYyYiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/2xRWvsvjyrO2k/giphy.gif"> 2025-03-24T14:19:30Z