The Renaissance Man

You're doing 5 reps, it's normal. Lactic acid starts at 1+ minutes or continued effort or something. It's just initial muscle damage from training because you're not used to it. Your legs don't get larger in 5 days, they're just a bit swollen.

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@Emerald Can I ask you what the conversion rates for a $2800 coaching program are? In particular: Response rate Appointment rate Close rate

Oh shit!

This is just from typing notes, no dedicated practice (besides the very beginning), no gaming. I learned how to type with all 10 fingers a few years ago. One of the best things I've ever done.

@integral It's not dangerous, don't worry. It can be healthy if you're untrained, because you'll put on some muscle (it will eventually get easy, unless you add weight to the pistols). It's not dangerous because you can only overload pistol squats so much, between them being one-legged and unbalanced. So it's hard to get hurt (if your knees hurt stop though). You can do 5 pull ups or 10 push ups if pistol squats give you problems, I guess. Until they don't, you're good though. And they may never give you problems, even if you were to do this for 30 years.

@LambdaDelta makes total sense now I see it

@integral why didn't the black queen eat Leo's bishop at move 10? It makes no sense to me. Seems like an irrational move a beginner wouldn't make. Shouldn't the bot be pretty damn good at 2000 elo?

@BojackHorseman The numbers are rough guidelines (very very rough). Different individuals have very different metabolisms. Two skinny 40 year old men doing the same job, same height, same weight, may need to eat 2000 calories more or less than the other, just because... genetics. If you're overweight, you're eating too much. If you're extremely skinny, you're eating too little. That's really it. Think about it! Science has got this figured out, and has been for a few decades. Look at yourself in the mirror. Is there fat that shouldn't be there? You're eating too much. The right amount of food to eat is the one that makes you maintain a healthy level (low) of body fat. Depending on your metabolism, sex, height, daily activity, etc, this number will be higher or lower. Nonetheless the only thing that matters for the quantity of food is how fat or skinny you are. PS - If you read @Michael569's great recommendations above, you'll see that the answer to the question "eating too much?" is in just two points: The other points are more about what to eat, and less about how much which is what you were asking. So, it's really that simple. Hopefully this gives you some solid ground to work with

Thanks for the distinction. Can't wait to realize this for myself in a few years

Would be as productive as a debate with a wall. Same level of openmindedness. Maybe it would be interesting to see the mental gymnastics in action. But even that is nothing new, just looking at his profiles and how he deals with criticism says it all.

Now that you make me think about it this search for "meaning" is just the search for the answer to "what the hell is all this???". So the search for meaning and for truth may not be that different when you look into it.

At a certain point I went through a Andrew Huberman style hyper-rigid phase where I demonized all this "dopamine" stuff. I was much better off taking a more chill approach. The "enemy" frame wasn't good for me. It added guilt to the problem. Double problem. Since then I haven't taken anything related to dopamine too seriously. I saw it mostly as something that everybody talked about, yet in their daily lives nobody was actually able to control it in the long-run. AT THE SAME TIME, reading your post made me wonder once again about what life was like before the things you mentioned (quoted below), and how much it may be worth it to cut some more aggressively. A 3-month experiment would be a good test. Maybe I'll be crazy enough to do it. Thanks for the inspiration, I guess!

Solid! And this too, seems really great advice that goes to the core of the problem. I don't know how feasible this is or how much work this could take though. @UnbornTao

Good luck brother