Natasha Tori Maru

I really appreciate that I had a hard start to life. Not everyone makes it. I am still trying to figure out how/why I did. I can tell you one thing though, I am more resilient than most. I bounce back from failure and wipe past thoughts about it clean. I just take what I need to learn from how I failed, and try again. And I never stop. I don't let things deter me. This one was element about myself that grew in strength through the years, as I begun to apply it to more and more domains of life. I take ruthless action. Mind rewiring followed dramatic action. Not the other way around.

I like it here. Melbourne has wild weather. Amazing architecture & culture. Hodge podge of all different kinds. The sun is not to be fucked with. It will fuck you. It is cloudy out - you will be mercilessly incinerated. Regardless. The bush is not to be fucked with. It will fuck you. I came across a woman on the weekend who had been bitten by a tiger snake, not 3 minutes from my apartment (inner city, 6km from CBD). She got help. Is ok There are some shit aspects. But overall I think Australia is balanced, which is what it has going for it.

@UnbornTao It is hard to tell between the frenzied replies and sarcasm.

@UnbornTao I recommend the book.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Book-Not-Knowing-Peter-Ralston/dp/1556438575

I read it when I was 14. I LOVED it. The chapter where they were slowly suffocating put the fear in me. I recall that fear when I read Red Dragon by Thomas Harris / Bram Stoker's Dracula (not on par as literary classics, like Moby Dick, mind you). Red Dragon in particular messed me up. I do alright with really dense material ie Bronte Sisters, Tolkien etc. This is a big claim - you must have taken some big meanings/lessons/truth from the book.

Disappointed. You can never know someone else's experience.

Oh to be clear - I do not eat late at night I stop all food 3/4 hours prior to sleep. I just have my largest, most dense and training fuelled meal in the evening.

Not to mention - society operates on a give/take principal. You cannot expect to benefit from from all of the support of society and not provide any value back. If you take and avoid contributing, your not opting out of society, or 'NT world'. You're being somewhat carried by it. You necessarily need to be carried by it in times of hardship (illness, injury, childhood, crisis), that is what compassion is for. But I am against it as a STANCE. Power, medical, water, gas, buildings, infrastructure. Support workers, teaching, skilled labour, care. So much work people put in to keep these networks & systems running for all of our mutual benefit. This is no moralising either - it is just reality. I do not wish to appear to be judging someone's worth only by what they can bring/be useful as. But if we benefit from the collective, I might consider I owe something back.

@Terell Kirby Yeah, it is really, really shocking. The branding man, FUCK

I have adhered to a similar method years, it hasn't failed me yet. Sometimes, prior to a 20k + run, or 50/60km ride, I will eat a huge pile of potatoes the evening before, with my meal. If I eat that same volume of carbohydrates the morning of, I am sluggish and there is much less power available to me. I experience this as the oft spoken of 'bonk', where you just run out of steam. The overnight digestion saturates my muscle glycogen stores (my theory) better than morning fuelling. I used to take meticulous notes on a little pad regarding meal times, types, feeling during training, times etc and work out from scratch best practice. Now its all stored on the Garmin and phone. Technology is great, when used properly

Just talking about the human condition in circles now.

@yetineti Honestly life prior to 30 can be a bit of a struggle. In between working out who you are, you are also figuring out what you want & how the fuck to navigate the insanity of society. And enduring whatever woe you may have - we all have them. It is a lot of learning - it was for me. You reach a break point where you understand enough about yourself the incessant questioning begins to quiet. I am speaking more about that hard time in adolescence and 20s where you go through A LOT identity wise. Space is left to pay attention to survival & mastering executive decision making. Attend to what is highest priority. Gradually, slowly, I found my life becoming somewhat easier. I engaged a bit more with the flow, less force. Less resistance. I reached a breakpoint where shit just started to feel okay. It was like everything pivoted. Now I just enjoy the ride, I want to be no where else. Even when turds come my way! The brilliant part about God's plan is that nothing remains the same. It always changes. Which is melancholic, but also quite freeing. It can also be a source of resilience to remind ourselves of this

Fucking love lathered >.< I need to stop with the euphemisms.

I think this is my only issue with him. I cannot listen to someone who I think is not original and earnest in delivery. That's not to say I might not listen to someone who was full of shit. I can be fooled that way like a twit, and I have been. Caught by vibes. But he appears like he has the opposite of sovereignty of mind. I like a maverick. Why would I listen to Brendan when the juice can come from Peter himself

I get the ick from Brendan Lea. I have listened to a lot of his stuff on Youtube. He sounds a lot like a brainwashed crony trying to replicate Peter. Mannerisms, intonation. Speaking pace. Phrasing. He legit sounds like a mini-Ralston with no original mind. And he may not, since I do not think Ralston would tolerate someone so close to him that was pushing back or challenging him. I do not know why I cannot tolerate Brendan. He has some good stuff to say. It is an issue with me that I cannot receive it from him. But I am 100% okay with being yelled at through the internet by Peter

Oh boy - this is FULLY LOADED. I reckon he is going to spack out. Framing and context will scream cosmology. I personally would have just said Hello Peter, expressing gratitude for the work you do. Existentially & relatively - do you have anything to say on love? or just Hello, Peter. Love? But then again, I might be too open ended

I think there may be a few who share this view, but do not state it. I think it is the way with all seekers. You always throw the teacher away. Spiritual needs to be thrown away in the end as well. Or it becomes just another ground for identiity.

What is the intention/communication you are wishing to broadcast with this post? Am I correct it is mostly the sum of the collective status of members in general? It is very much a hodge podge of varying levels of development across all sorts of domains. Often lop-sided domain development. It does look like the above is the communication, but packaged in 'I have higher truths you aren't ready for'. But then, if that is the case, I don't understand why it is expressed. Aside from it being ego itself.

This is EXACTLY where I think he may go 💩

Yes, certainty tends to crowd out learning. Information gets bounced off - or tends to be twisted to fit what is already there. I run into this in business. When I am raising a possible issue we need to address to prevent a future bad outcome. I usually encounter this when I am speaking to someone that outranks me in experience.

Closing this. Don't want to invite drama. If you have a serious issue PM Leo or a Moderator you feel you can speak to.

I have no personal feelings toward you - all is well Why in the world would I dislike you? I disagree with your actions - there is a large difference. This post does make me think you might have unclear boundaries - my compassion. Always a challenge. Disclose AI use and you good man

I tend to eat 2/3 very small meals through the day. Main meal 3hrs before bed - larger. I let my body digest and process food by fasting until 11AM. I use the morning for my most focused, intense tasks. Because my main, larger meal at night, is quite large, it fuels the morning weights/run/ride by loading carbohydrates the evening prior. I have personally found exercising or doing any intense non-linear thinking work on a full stomach to detract from performance. For this reason, I load the night/evening before. I have tried one meal a day (OMAD) but it did not do so well for hormones. Such a pity women are not even looked at properly for a lot of modern nutrition studies My advice is - experiment. The timing and diet for you is the one that YOU can stick to, and gives the best performance. If you cannot stick to something, it's never going to work. I think all this food timing stuff can feed anxiety; paralysis by analysis!

I couldn't get past the first 4 sentences. Sorry, but I can't do AI slop. There's no pacing. Theres no rhythm. Just this relentless content with every sentence - with no natural breathing room to take in the information before I am assaulted with more words/concepts/descriptions. No room for my mind to digest while I read a users unique phrasing. Phrasing that often says little, but adds pace and pause. It is just punchline after punchline, sucking away my attention. ChatGPT generated text is the true vampire energy. How ironic.