Saturday, May 31, 2025

You teach people how to treat you.

An important realization: People don't treat you based on who you are., they treat you based on what you tolerate.

That may sound harsh, but it's true.

Every time you stay silent when something doesn't sit right…

Every time you say yes when you meant no…

Every time you minimize what you need, just to keep the peace…

You're teaching the people around you exactly how to treat you.

Not because they're cruel.

But because you've shown them what's allowed.

And the standard you enforce becomes the expectation they follow. Or, ahem, lack of a standard.

This is where quiet power begins…not in domination, but in self-respect.

Because when you respect yourself deeply and consistently, your presence shifts.

Your tone sharpens.

Your energy becomes more focused.

And people respond to that, even if they don't know why.

Here's your challenge this week:

Audit your boundaries.

Where are you over-explaining?

Where are you over-extending?

Where are you hoping someone will "just understand," when you haven't made your expectations clear?

Don't wait to be treated better.

Lead with clarity.

Speak with calm.

Stand with consistency.

Because once you show people what you no longer tolerate, they only have two choices:

Adjust… or disappear.

Either way, you win.

-James Michael Sama

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This Sunday June 1st at 2pm Eastern Time, I am happy to announce that Dr. Michael Clarage will be delivering a presentation on Fractal Toroidal geometries, and the non-Euclidean geometries needed to make discoveries of our electric universe and densely saturated, and highly dynamic physical space time. If you are thinking that this topic isn’t political and thus not interesting, you are incorrect.

Speaker bio: Dr Michael Clarage received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1992, studying the biological and statistical behavior of proteins. Prior to that, he spent several years studying binary pulsars at the Arecibo radio telescope. He has given traveling lectures in the areas of fractional calculus, fractals, and chaotic systems as well as presented public talks on such topics as relativity and dimensions, transformation in supernova and metamorphosis in biology. Dr. Clarage is currently a scientist with the SAFIRE Project and curates a blog on Substack. His previous RTF lecture The Light of Life can be watched here

The presentation Dr. Clarage will deliver will be inspired by (but not limited to) a series he recently published titled ‘Fractal Torus’ parts 1-4 available here:

Fractal Torus 4 - Grain of Salt

Fractal Torus 3 - A Naturally Arising Structure?

Fractal Torus 2 - Self Sustaining

Fractal Toroids - Part 1, Geometry

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Strength without noise.

Something we seem to have forgotten in today's "look at me" era of social media and boisterous…"leadership," is…real strength doesn't need to announce itself.

It doesn't over-explain.

It doesn't shout.

And it certainly doesn't seek validation in the volume of its voice.

We live in a world where people confuse noise with power.

They chase attention, applause, and affirmation…mistaking visibility for influence.

But those who are truly strong…

They don't need to be seen to make an impact.

I once sat across from a man in a boardroom…he barely spoke the entire meeting.

No need to flex. No need to interrupt.

But when he finally did speak, the entire room went quiet.

Not because he demanded it.

But because he'd earned it.

That's strength without noise.

It's built in the shadows.

In the reps no one sees.

In the way you hold your boundaries, keep your promises, and stay composed when others unravel.

It's not passive. It's not weak.

It's calculated.

Deliberate.

Precise.

When you know who you are (and what you're capable of) you stop needing to prove it.

You stop seeking energy from the crowd.

And you start moving through life with a different kind of gravity.

This week's challenge:

Let your presence carry what your words no longer need to.

Let your actions be sharper than your voice.

And remember: There is nothing louder than a person who moves with quiet certainty.

Strength isn't volume.

It's restraint, clarity, and alignment in motion.

Talk to you soon,

-James Michael Sama

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