The Renaissance Man

That's not the point. The point is that you're delegating understanding to the AI. It's not the same. It doesn't lead to the same outcomes, especially in the long run. The development of critical thinking, of contemplation, of wrestling with concepts and confusion until you achieve understanding is the key skill here. AI is amazing as a tool to challenge you, or to look up information. But then it's you that needs to evaluate what's being said by the AI. If you copy-paste the AI's response it's the clearest sign of a lack of evaluation. Because there's no way the AI's response 100% reflects what you think. I'm not saying you're stupid or not serious or that you're clueless about Leo's work. I'm trying to show you the problem delegating reasoning to the AI. Here's the real question. When the answer becomes a firm YES, then you're closer to what we're trying to point to you: could you have come to the same conclusions/response as the AI with your own mind? And you can't just say yes by the way. Prove it in the next threads you post. Try to critique Leo's work with your own mind and contemplation. Try to deeply understand it, writing a simple summary is not enough. Coming up with your own examples and theories. All those questions point to an already familiar word by the way: contemplation. That's what it is!

Maybe when we're talking about skill sports: basketball, football, golf. But lifting weights it's not about flow. It's about providing dumb, heavy-ass stimulus to your muscles. You've completely disregarded injuries. Maybe in your personal reality they're not much of a problem, but for advanced athletes they're the very thing that's stopping them from making progress. Because to make progress when you plateau you need, unsurprisingly, more training. But there's a limit to how much you can train before you get hurt. So if you can train without getting hurt, that's a competitive advantage. This is just false by the way. Have you seen how strong jacked people are? Even the ones who control their repetitions (which at some point they must do otherwise they get injured 3/4 of the time). Both Mike and Jeff Nippard are EXTREMELY strong by the way. Like top 0.01%. The kind of guy that when walks in a gym he's the strongest by a long shot. Which is what we're talking about. We're not talking about training philosophy. In the realm of training philosophy it's all subjective. If you like to do sets of 100 half-reps of inverted foot curls then go for it, as long as you're happy. I feel like you haven't listened to the other side of the argument with an open enough mind. If you try to make elite strength athletes or bodybuilders train like Bugenhagen 85% of them will be crippled with injuries. They might get stronger in the first 2 months, but then they get hurt and eventually get surpassed.

@Carl-Richard The slow and controlled eccentric has some advantages though: Best way to maximize time under tension (a fast eccentric means skipping all of that juicy eccentric tension, because gravity does that for you, for a not-that-big decrease in load). So this should get you more growth not less. A slow concentric is problematic because load would drop too much, but Israetel doesn't advocate for that for that reason. It's A LOT SAFER. I guess this is less of a problem for beginners and intermediates, because they're "too weak to get hurt" pretty much. But when you become more advanced, and very strong, you're always threading the needle between volume and injury. Exercises that you could've half-assed before now become super dangerous, and as soon as you do one thing wrong (and very often even if you do everything right)... inflammation. Any time you can make the same gains for A LOT less risk it's a huge long-term win. Overall though, this is a nuance. Either training like Bugenhagen or slowing down the eccentric will lead to almost identical results (if you don't get injured). Because what counts is training hard, and training a lot. It must be that way. If you're recovering from an injury you need everything to be controlled, not just the eccentric. Avoiding rebounds, controlling everything, and keeping loads as low as possible, so staying in higher rep ranges (20+).

@Nilsi I'm reading the SD book right now, after your reply I'll for sure check out Clare Graves' work. It's a common pattern that when you go and look at the actual source you discover things were meant to be different (and very often better). What are the top books/works on developmental psychology in your opinion?

Mine: The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (fantasy) Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini (fantasy) Blindness - Jose Saramago (dystopian) I haven't read much fiction though, so this is very likely bound to change

@Curious_classic Are you planning on writing novels in a second language? Have you written short stories or novels before? Also I'm not sure I understand your problem. Is it content creation, like YouTube videos? Or are you unsure about the whole endeavor? Or do you just want to get better at writing?

@Oso You can make an informed decision without blindly relying on intuition. Are the other "non-intuition" factors far better for the other two options? Do you feel you have the data to know how your life is likely going to be like 10 years from now? If yes, choose the best option. If no, collecting more data could be helpful. The fact that you consider happiness and sustainability as part of the equation is already great. Too many look at "career" as the only variable and get burned (and burned out).

@Hayato shhh you need 25 protocols and 52 supplements or you'll die tomorrow!

Nothing as straight as blue light glasses

Hey @Artsy, I've been following Huberman's work for a while. Actually since when he got famous 3-4 years ago. There's a thing (a BIG thing) I don't like about him: his advice tends to avoid the big things that actually move the needle of health in favor of the new niche study (and often irrelevant and very low value studies) and "protocols". When you're not experienced he feels like a trustworthy person. But when you do solve one of the problems he talks about, you see how his episodes are extremely lackluster. You see how he actually doesn't care about your health, but only about his followers and bank account. If health is important to you, watch some serious Huberman critiques on YouTube. Regardless of Huberman, you're doing great work in taking your health seriously. Most of his advice, which I can see reflected on your list, I would either drop entirely, or at least not consider it a pillar of health. Here would be my pillars: Diet 3/4 of the food you eat should be "healthy" food. Non-processed carbs, lean meat, plenty of fruit and veggies. This will supply with all the micronutrients you need. The final 1/4 is flexible and for enjoying yourself. It will make no difference to your health if you are a healthy person already. That's really all you need for diet. Limit alcohol consumption to 1 x week at most. And don't get wasted. Ideally don't drink alcohol, but for some that's a big ask. Exercise Young people (<35) are actually perfectly healthy without working out. But some muscle looks good and it's attractive, so 3 full body workouts a week in the gym is a good compromise. Resistance training specifically. As you get older working out becomes more important to maintain muscle and endurance. It decays fast after 50. No need to train neck. Huberman is BSing you. Sleep Wake up at the same time every day (that way you'll be tired at the same time every night). Place alarm far from bed so you're forced to get up. Cool room temperature if possible. Prevent anything that could disturb sleep. Blinds for light, ear plugs close ot bed for noise depending on situation. Screen terrorism is another BS thing. It's mostly about the content. If you watch "exciting" content it will be easier to stay up. In this sense a book is better. No need for blue light glasses and other BS. Same for sunlight. It's definitely not a health pillar, but more "protocol BS terrorism". Avoid coffee in the evening. Other Health Learn how to brush your teeth, and brush them 2x day + floss. Do regular checks (every 6-18 months) for cavities. Get the basic vaccines. Get checked if something feels strange. We're A LOT more resilient than Huberman would like you to think. I'm telling you, Huberman doesn't give a crap about your health. All his "protocols" require no serious emotional work. Notice that. That's very intentional. Because otherwise viewers would tune out. And he can't put out 2 hour episodes saying: actually staying in good health is pretty basic and simple. He's shown again and again how the only thing he cares about is increasing his followers and bank account. PS - This is actually good news for all of us. We don't need to do 100 "protocols" to not sleep 4 hours a night and grow tumors on our faces and die at 45. PPS - Fuck Huberman, he wasted so much of my time

@Daniel Balan Examples of beige from the Spiral Dynamics book. So this is straight from the source: The first peoples, newborn infants, senile elderly, late-stage Alzheimer’s victims, mentally ill street people, starving masses, bad drug trips, and ‘shell shock.’ Described in anthropological fiction like Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear.

THIS. If this was made clearer from the get-go 90% of the confusion about SD in this forum would disappear.

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@Schizophonia I don't know what energy means here, so I'll interpret it as "vibe". 1) I want to release a good vibe, obviously. Who wants a bad vibe? 2) Of course, you can't ever 100% control your behavior. You probably can't control 10% but that's besides the point. And even if you could, it would be a stifled, fake, and shitty life. 3) Yes, I think that feedback is extremely precious if you want to socially improve. But only from close people I trust, not from strangers. And I don't know about "violent" lol. Close people I trust also know social calibration so "violent feedback" shouldn't be a problem.

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