Raj Shamani ✓
@rajshamani · joined 04 Nov 2009
Purpose: To help people live & love better | Founder & Host @ Figuring Out | Bestselling Author, Build Don’t Talk
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Your brain can only fear what it pays attention to. Worry survives on being replayed. The reason busy people worry less isn't that they have fewer problems. It's that a mind fully occupied has no spare room to keep the fear alive.
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Your working memory can hold only about 4 things at once. Yet most people carry 20 unfinished worries into every hour. That overload is the scattered, tired feeling you can't explain.
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You love progress markers because they feel like movement. Checking views, weight, money, or messages can become a substitute for doing the thing that would move the number. Measurement can slowly become procrastination.
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The world is becoming harsher for people who need motivation to begin. Tools are easier, information is cheaper, competition is faster, and the only serious separator left is execution.
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When you constantly scan a room for signs of disapproval, your brain learns to treat neutral expressions as negative ones. Over time, your mind manufactures social rejection even where none exists.
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The brain builds confidence through prediction. When you repeatedly do what you said you would do, your mind starts predicting follow-through from you. Confidence is your brain trusting your pattern.
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Every time you start something and quit halfway, your brain logs it as evidence that you don't finish. Do it enough, and starting itself begins to feel pointless. You've slowly taught your mind that your beginnings don't lead anywhere.
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Every time you check your phone during a hard task, your brain marks that task as the thing worth escaping. Do it enough, and the work itself starts to feel like discomfort before you've even begun.
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@rajshamani Sitting with a problem usually makes it feel bigger than it actually is.
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@rajshamani Yes and fun fact...this is why military strategy distinguishes between a plan and an initiative
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@rajshamani Sounds like action may not solve the whole problem, but it can give your mind somewhere productive to go besides around in circles.
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Your brain lowers the stress chemicals the moment you take action, but doubles them when you sit still and think about the problem. The fastest cure for feeling overwhelmed is taking action.
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The first time you double-check your work out of self-doubt, it feels careful. The fiftieth time, your brain has built a ritual that guarantees you will never trust your own execution.
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@rajshamani Doom scrolling is a tough habit to break, but one thing that helped was putting restrictions on my phone with screen time.
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@rajshamani Most people think boredom means nothing interesting is happening around them, when really it’s their baseline for stimulation that’s shifted, not the environment itself.
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@rajshamani Endless scrolling makes ordinary life feel boring, when ordinary life was never the problem.
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The more you scroll to feel something, the higher your brain sets the bar for what counts as interesting. Real life starts feeling flat because you trained your threshold too high. Boredom is the result of overstimulation.
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Against accounts of the same size
17 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views19 072this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.96%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.29%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 19 072 | 5 983 | 3.19× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.96% | 1.49% | 2.66× |
| Engagement rate | 3.29% | 0.93% | 3.54× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
25331 Aug
21.7K1 Sep
116.8K
1.6K
1.7K
1K
23.3K2 Sep
22.4K
22.4K3 Sep
16.8K
37K4 Sep
15.9K
19.1K5 Sep
25.9K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.58%31 Aug
2.23%1 Sep
8.04%
0.99%
0.24%
0.77%
5.42%2 Sep
4.54%
5.80%3 Sep
2.87%
5.66%4 Sep
2.14%
2.87%5 Sep
3.70%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes75.6%16 540 in total
Reposts7.9%1 732 in total
Replies2.2%491 in total
Quotes0.3%60 in total
Bookmarks14.0%3 062 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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