100% Optimization.
how iconic people live life like legends
There is a very specific combination of existing factor or, enigmatic qualities that seem to come together to form the “perfect storm” if you will. And thus… produce a 100% optimizer.
According to the Bing search I just did. *my browser defaults Bing instead of Google for some reason, fuckin’ HPs* we actually use 100% of our brains not 10% I guess that was just “random bullshit they kept saying” for no fuckin’ reason?!
In that case, it’s not brain capacity percentage showing up in these iconic individuals but rather a 100% optimization of raw human potential for “greatness” if you will.
It is difficult to actually quantify what, greatness… is. Albeit, we know it, when we see greatness. Greats, GOATs, icons, legends. They leave behind legendary impacts that ultimately changed the way we see the world and live our lives. I have recently come to define these incredible demigods: 100% optimizers. The greatest that ever walked among us.
My first example is Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee was far more than an actor, martial artist, or entertainment superstar. He was all of those things, but he also performed a number of unarguably superhuman feats and constructed an enduring legacy that has continued to influence the modern world in various ways.
Firstly, his groundbreaking approach to the combination of martial arts style to form a synthesized “new structure” point from out of which for those refined methods and mix of style techniques is literally the origin point of MMA, mixed martial arts. Bruce Lee created MMA.
He is not merely the spiritual, or ideological inventor of mixed martial arts, he is the inventor of it. In its modern form.
There is no UFC without Bruce Lee, he directly inspired the future world of combat sports as they have come today. Meaning… you are not a better martial artist than the inventor of MMA, Ronda, you wouldn’t be one at all, without him.
This brings me to another aspect of the 100% optimization factor, and that is the power of impact, lasting influence, and cultural breakthrough. Bruce Lee’s direct action in the film industry and his usage of is martial arts mastery and innovations allowed for the study, cultivation and commercialization of martial arts to reach the rest of the world globally as a mainstream cultural expression.
How many taekwondo schools and little karate studios are in that local strip mall next to your favorite coffee shop? The prominence of martial arts being so widely accepted and embraced in the West as a common cultural shelter and expressive art form, that is something we have to credit Bruce Lee with.
While he wasn’t the sole pioneer of “martial arts” as a global expression. His influence is most largely felt on a universal scale.
His speed, strength, and innovations in fighting and the martial arts included many humanly “impossible” feats he frequently demonstrated and performed.
His one-inch punch could send a person flying 16 feet. He had to slow down how fast he moved for his action to be captured on film for movies because how quick he was. Real martial artists that knew and respected him have stated in numerous interviews how freakishly fast, he was.
The way his brain coordinated the approach of combining many differing styles in the schools of traditional Chinese kung fu, stemming from his roots in Wing Chun, with a foundational “Western boxing” approach and stance, with the poised darting speed of fencing reflects the innovative thinking reflected by 100% optimizers.
Bruce faced a significant back injury while stretching that left him bedridden and immobilized. He was told he wouldn’t walk again. Not only did he fully recover from that but that was before he got into television or did any of his movies. His physicality on screen reflects the leap from “you’ll never be the same” to look what this man can do using his body in film.
One of his most insane physical feats to me, is his ability to use nunchucks to play ping pong. Literally striking the ball as accurately as professional, global champions and besting them seemingly effortlessly in their native sport. This video is available on YouTube.
If that wasn’t incredible enough… he also put thin matchstick strikers along the bottoms of the striking handles on his nunchucks and had someone randomly flick matches at him from a distance of ten or so feet.
Bruce strikes the matches and ignites them every single time one is projected at him. Sending them away from himself flaming.
He also has a man put a match in his mouth. Bruce strikes only the tip of the match and ignites it.
These superhuman powers Bruce Lee consistently exhibited throughout his life, and in the prime of his abilities, reflect this rare phenomenon of 100% optimizers.
But Bruce is not alone in this unusual expression. There are others…
2Pac, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X. These legends are not only pop icons but historical figures that shaped modern culture and changed earth as a collective organism.
2Pac’s brilliance as a poet, musician, and actor. Bob Marley’s immense command of the stage, showcasing what can only be described as an apparent “trance state” he’d go into behind the microphone, while performing.
Bob’s ability to spread the Rastafarian faith and reggae genre of music globally to the point of becoming common knowledge is similar as the way Bruce Lee pioneered his own native heritage of Chinese kung fu and martial arts innovation.
Jimi Hendrix is the first guitarist to play using his teeth, behind his back, and using both hands interchangeably. The things he did with a guitar wasn’t even something other musicians had ever attempted or imagined.
And in that imagination is one of keys here. 100% optimizers have this quality of imaging that which nobody has and then breaking new ground by pushing past all established boundaries in place. It’s in that regard that they ultimately leave such enduring legacies that have a lasting impact on popular culuture for decades and generations.
Marilyn Monroe lit up the screen and dazzled audiences, and fans in a way that was otherworldly. Her aura, presence, beauty and personality had this mesmerizing effect of perception shattering capture. In addition to that, she possessed the power to go into a crowd assuming “invisibility” and was no longer able to be “witnessed” by the people literally walking right by her. She demonstrated this ability for an interview.
2Pac not only produced an excessive amount of material before passing at the young age of 25 years old. His lyrics are consistently defining for rap and hip hop as well as poetic expressions of human language.
He was also a magnetically compelling actor and could command the screen the way he commands the microphone. His intellect was matched by his activism and how he stood for struggle against corrupt systems. Preaching empowerment for Black people and impoverished communities around the world.
Malcolm X’s spiritual evolution from confined inmate in prison to Civil Rights leader and global ambassador of peace is one of the key defining aspects of the 1960s Black Power era. His powers proved how charisma, intellect and oration in public speech can shift the consciousness of people globally. Changing the way humanitarianism is even perceived or practiced.
MLK accomplished this as well, and his boycotts and organizing demonstrated how a 100% optimizer possesses the power to force the hand of governing powers and make the world a better place for us all.
There is no more powerful example of a 100% optimizer than Michael Jackson. He is the most culturally influential, globally recognized and spiritually aligned artist of any previous generation.
His legacy and influence have reached and endured on every continent on the planet. Even the penguins in Antarctica know Billy Jean and do the moonwalk as part of their mating season rituals.
During his first ever solo tour outing on the Bad Tour he transcended what should be humanly possible by maintaining a 0.5% pitch in the range of his studio recordings on countless shows, more than a hundred, over a 16-month period. Singing entirely live for all those performances.
Google AI claims the “0.5 percent pitch” isn’t possibly or recognized as factual but I will assert, his pitch capacity in those shows provides verifiable proof that his voice is singing that accurately to the studio recordings.
The claims and allegations that were raised against Michael Jackson in his lifetime were totally unfounded. Unactual. Slanderous, and defamatory. He was acquitted on all charges. He was never found guilty of any wrongdoing against any child ever in his lifetime… because it was all false.
He was acquitted on every charge raised against him. Both instances of coordinated attempts at character assassination, and defamatory slander, were in fact efforts to prevent his influence. Executed in response to his humanitarian message of healing the world and combatting corruption on corporate structures in the entertainment industry. Which hidden power players in the shadows, did not want.
Those false claims were also manufactured efforts to extort money from him during his life and even still all these years later after his untimely death.
Michael Jackson is the most successful music recording artist of all time and with the recent release of the Michael movie an entire new generation is now embracing music he created for the world over forty years ago. But the messages embedded in the songs eerily speak to today’s climate.
He has surpassed existing contemporary place holders for top performance in both the box office, for the movie, and on streaming platforms. Billy Jean eclipsed Taylor Swift. Who has been perceived to be some form of “modern Michael Jackson” level performer and artist. A false claim. But none the less, even from beyond the grave he is proving his dominance over the modern era. Even still. After so many years have passed since his passing.
The great injustice is how much pain and persecution he had to face in his life for absolutely nefarious motives.
But the authenticity and positive intensions for children, the world as a whole and our planet preserveres through the power of his music and lasting legacy.
100% optimizers are rare, but when they appear. The world notices and they become megastars. The tragedy is that more often than not we only fully recognize immense talent such as theirs, after their gone.
I also must address the fact, a new “documentary” is being released by Netflix. It is a return to the 2003 allegations and 2005 criminal trial for which Michael was acquitted on all charges.
In light of Michael’s reignited popularity and fan devotion. Many people have posted on social media they have canceled their Netflix accounts and are signing a petition on change.org for having the documentary canceled, in an effort to prevent its release.
I haven’t seen any serious news coverage about this. But I see a number of articles that are being used as “marketing press” for the release of the documentary.
This shows how fraudulent the news media is. Propaganda has always been used, and is continually used to assassinate character, and create false narratives for the masses. I refuse such a notion.
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