Let me tell you a story. I was going out to sort of tackle my social anxiety by going to busy places where I usually feel the most anxious. So I get ready, go into the street and here I encounter the first problem. I have to get a taxi. Here where I live you have to flag down a taxi by holding your hand out. And I was so socially anxious that that was a problem for me, I felt awkward standing in one place waiting for a taxi so I’d walk around like a retard which made not realize that there were empty taxis I could have flagged down, and even if i did notice them I may have been too scared to hold my hand out. Eventually I find a taxi and I get to the place I wanted to go. It’s a big park besides the river that's probably a few kilometers long. I walk this path and there are so many people I feel like everyone's looking at me thinking “who’s this dumbass walking around”. I walk and I walk and I walk. And then I go to leave. And as I’m leaving someone calls out for me and says “hey bro I seen you walking around here all alone”. I’m now curious to who this fella is so I exit the gate and meet him outside. Turns out this guy had also come here all alone like me. We start talking and have nice conversations, we hang out a little bit then I go home. How fucking sick is that. I just left my house and now I made a new friend without even trying. All I did was just leave my fucking home. If you just go outside random ass interesting shit always happens. Or I did something similar to that where I went to this busy café to do the same thing of confronting my social anxiety. I was sitting there thinking everyone was just looking at me and shit burying my face into my phone. I ordered once, out of order. I ordered something else, out of order. I order a third thing, and it takes 30 mins to come out. And at this point I’m a little bit pissed, I’m sat here like a weirdo all alone and it looks like I haven’t ordered anything and when I do get the courage to order it’s out of order. Randomly as I’m sitting there one of my friends randomly show up and asks me “where are the others”. “The other’s? Motherfucker I didn’t even know you were gonna show up let alone ‘others’ ”. “Oh yea bro we all planned to meet up here and shit” and I was like ok well I’m here let’s have fun. You planned to meet up here, I’ll continue with you guys then.

Hi everyone, I started this daily post about 1 month ago on another community and decided to share and post it here too. I am 21 days into it. Day 21 is today, Saturday, August 17. I would like feedback if this is good for this community. It seems to inspire other members on another community. Morning routine✅ Cold shower🚿✅ Journal for 10 minutes✍️✅ read for 20 minutes✅ spend 45 minutes outdoors❌ deep work✅ eat only whole foods❌ Drink 2 Liters of water✅ Workout 🏋️ (Sick day. I caught a cough yesterday) ❌ Study 📖 2 hours at least ✅ No scrolling📱❌ No video games/TV 🎮 ❌ Meditation ❌ Screens off by 21:00 (9:00pm)✅ In bed by 22:00 (10:00pm)✅ No corn 🌽 ✅ No fap 💦 ✅ Evening routine✅ 8 hours of sleep🛌✅ I have a cough that I caught yesterday and hope it is gone tomorrow. I rested and slightly used my new dip station. I spent a lot of time today on Skool and reading one of my books, Estrogeneration by Anthony Jay. I am creating a post for tomorrow and will go to sleep before 21:00 (9:00pm) tonight. I was out late last night and only slept 5 hours last night. I plan to be more productive and make it the gym tomorrow.🤧

Send a picture of your screen time this week and tell us more about it. - Is it a good sign in your life? Here's mine from last week.

Hi, I'm Youssef and I'm from Egypt My reason for joining Thinker's Academy is I wanted to join a community where people go deeper than surface level self improvement. My Question for the group is how do you feel about your future and the direction of your life? Do you feel really optimistic, or do you feel that it's all going to shit?