Rigel

Your bookshelf is art! A kindle on an empty shelf is booooring.

Exercise makes you more alive right now

I’ve had a mild form of it for as long as I can remember. It’s very obvious that it’s not a physical wave hitting my eardrums. It’s qualitatively different and does not impact my hearing in any way. It’s there whenever I put my attention on it. Haven’t tried anything to remedy it since it’s so benign in my case.

The ocean

Coffee. But it’s not what you think. I just love the taste of great coffee so much. I am wide awake before I even had it, in anticipation of having it. I wake up, drink a huge glass of water, stretch my body & get the blood moving. By that point I am wide awake. I then make the coffee as a ritual & practice in mindfulness. I grind it fresh & shiver from the aroma. After that I poor water on it and literally stand there watching it drain for three minutes. Let it cool down a bit so that my first sip is a taste of the divine(you can’t taste well when it’s too hot). It’s so rewarding to me. I go to sleep, listening to ocean sounds & I can’t wait to wake up to savour it again.

I love plantain these days. It’s like potato but better. Mushrooms aren’t plants I know but I got those pink oysters recently. What a revelation. People sleep on cabbages. I put those in my scrambled eggs.

I remember a guy a while back arguing here that you should not write down your thoughts but try to remember everything inside your head. He was arguing that by doing this you increase the capacity of your mind to hold information. To me that is idiocy. Let me explain. The real estate of your mind is going to be filled at full capacity no matter what’s held within it. Which leads me to the insight(very obvious): Learn to use a goddam calendar & to do list. If you try to remember every appointment & shit you gotta do on a daily basis, you are not training your mind to increase its real estate, you are actively taking it away from things like creativity, spontaneous insights or general awareness of your emotions and your surroundings. Earlier today I was on the bus, commuting and I started to tear up looking at the beauty of my hands. That sort of moment can’t happen if I have useless junk in my mind like: “I gotta remember to pay the rent tomorrow”. Fuck that useless information😅 I’d much rather have an app remember for me and send me a notification when I have to do it. If you are delegating the task of remembering chores, appointments, action steps toward your goals, calling your grandmother, brushing your teeth even, you aren’t decreasing the ability of your mind to hold information. You are just freeing space for your mind to hold better information. Your mind is made to have creative thoughts not to remember them. Calendar & to do list are as important as a common place book in remembering what’s important to you. Have a block in your calendar just to contemplate what you want, what you need to do to get there & fill it up with those high quality action steps instead of just going about your day being swayed by things that aren’t on purpose.

Well lets add the information necessary to be accomplished in a thousand other disciplines of similar complexity to what I said. My point was that life is infinite. There’s infinite specific knowledge to be learned and your human mind is not. You have limited time to learn unlimited information. Leo’s video on decisiveness is à propos here. I want to keep this practical. This was about calendars and to do lists😄

I think you are right about that. It’s just a metaphor. Your mind is much more complex than a hard drive. Much more complex than I make it out to be here. I should have been more careful there.

Yes it does. Your human mind is finite. Only an infinite mind wouldn’t have a limit of capacity and at that point it wouldn’t be here having this discussion. A human can’t be an astronaut and a musician and an author and a psychologist and a race car driver and a programmer and the president of 10 different countries and the starter of 34 different businesses in different fields at once. Humans are finite.

@Bobby_2021 That’s reasonable. Maybe you got some kind of mind that remembers better than most. I still think using a calendar and to do list is good advice for most people hence the post.

@Chadders A lot of people will want to sue us but I love apple reminders as well😅 That’s the one I use.

@Bobby_2021 You do you brother. I am biased and ain’t ashamed of it. I don’t see any value in remembering licence plates. To me it’s taking space on the hard drive for no reason. My bias is towards creativity & awareness, not remembering the door lock code on the 15 different places I gotta go teach every month and where I’ll never go again. It’s not like I don’t care about the things I write down. I write them down because I care about them and I understand my human mind is finite. Every time I sit down to practice my instrument I increase my capacity to hold information like you are saying. But you gotta choose what’s important and what’s not at some point. You can’t remember everything about everything. My point is that by deciding what’s important and putting it in the calendar or the notes saves all the energy you would be directing towards remembering it. That energy is not wasted. You just use it for bigger and better things.

Who claims that? I’ve never heard anyone say that. But if I ever met one I would respond in the same manner I would a flat earther handing out flyers at the exit of the subway. “Ok cool, bye” or just ignore. It’s not like a person saying this would be interested in having a serious discussion anyways lol. Just a waste of time.

I guess that’s the same answer as any other “how”: With consciousness! but that’s no very useful is it.

I'll have to try this one!

Aaah another diet fad. Should have seen this coming. Yes but soy milk curdles when I put it in my tea :'(

Water, sleep, exercise, hygiene, functional breathing. Those are the only one size fits all that I know of. If it's a specific food or supplement I'll call bullshit on it right away. Please don't tell me to drink my own piss. I've seen those fools on yt already.

Really? You have big ambitions but you can’t make yourself care? Really? Sounds like your bullshitting yourself to me. Either you don’t actually have big ambitions or you actually care & are in denial that you care. What your mind thinks in any given moment isn’t as important as your mind thinks it is.

What's helped me quit weed was having something to do that's meaningful to me. What are you doing when you get high? If you get high then watch TV that's the real problem. If you had something worth while to do you would clearly see that weed isn't helping. Let's say you really want to learn programming. You are addicted to weed right now so you would get high and then go about trying to learn programming. What you would notice then is that weed is crippling you in learning fast & remembering the shit you are learning. So the natural thing to do would be to stop using weed. What do you want to do with your life?? Quitting weed isn't an inspiring goal. Figure out something that lights a fire under your ass & which requires you to quit weed as a by product. What freed me from weed was realizing that weed wasn't the problem. I was.

Devoting my life to mastery & learning is the best decision I've made so far in this life. You're right it truly never ends. The journey is the destination. That's another true cliché to add to the list! I am 10 years ahead of you in the skill you are learning right now & I still feel like a kid wetting my feet on the beach looking at this grotesquely gigantic ocean. I want to be able to fully submerge myself in it but I'll never be able to touch the seabed where the depth is real😁

You'd probably benefit from stopping consuming the news. The news takes the 0.01% of fucked up humans & makes you believe that's the whole world. Yeah those things happen, but you are so biased it's almost caricatural. If you don't want kids that's totally valid. I don't want them either. But common now, that's just silly. Reality is that terrible stuff AND a thousand million trillion gazillion other things you could be focusing on instead of that horse shit. You believe in pessimism. You don't actually care about the truth. You only say that. You believe the glass is half empty.

You're not gonna like this cause it's not what you asked but the best way to shift your circadian rhythm is to wake up at the time you would if you were already on the rhythm you want & suffer through the day. You'll sleep at night no probs. All of the night time advice you'll find online to prepare yourself for bed is all well & good but it's basically useless if you've been awake for only 7-8hrs. You need to build exhaustion to fall asleep. Ain't no way you had time to build exhaustion in 7hrs unless you are chronically sleep deprived or you've spent 6 of those 7hrs climbing a f*cking moutain at top speed. But, if I was to go along with your context I would say work out high intensity for at least 2hrs that day & don't eat 3hrs prior to bedtime.

Notion also has an AI assistant baked in. I'm not sure how it compares to chat GPT cause I don't use it much but it's there in case! The other day I used it to count the words in a page lol I suppose it could do cooler stuff than this.

You seem to be clear about the fact that you want to take a break. There is nothing more you need to know. Do it. Addicts don't like to hear that cause they think the object of their addiction is doing it to them & thus seek an outside solution but the fact is that they are doing it to themselves. You can just stop right now if that's what you want. Addicts don't stop their behavior cause they don't want to. You have 100% responsibility for your behavior in any given moment. Do you actually want to stop? You can either take it or not. What do you actually want? Figure that out & then do it. (Unless it's physiological in nature where your body could shut down & die from going cold turkey. That is not the case with psychedelics & a million other subtle addictions.) Some addicts are so far gone in victimhood that it's actually counter productive to tell them like it is. I am not saying that's you. Just throwing my 2 cents. Take it or leave it.