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Check out my man Noam Chomsky not getting triggered by Ali G:

I'd say this is an auditory/visual representation of Orange from the viewpoint of Green:

You know your situation the best, so I'll just throw out some questions: It sounds like your manager doesn't notice you. How are the group dynamics among your coworkers? What is the "pecking order"? Are you underpaid compared to others at the same level? You mention loyalty. In the mind(s) of management how do they view it? Also how easy can you get another job? I ask this because the easier you can, the more free you can be "open" with your manager. Otherwise you have to play it safe. Though, that's my injecting my own default stance that you can't trust management. How much do you trust your manager/supervisor? If not much, maybe channel off some of your energy to focus on building trust.

One idea I'm trying out is to balance out the mindlessness with, as Leo has put it, "slow, deliberate and mindful action". Apply that to your own situation. What I've been doing is experimental writing or note taking. Part of it is journaling but some of it is to note interesting or funny thoughts that the TV inspired. The note taking is connected to some overall journaling I've been doing for a while. One improvement I'd like is to review better and focus on internalizing what I want to. Also I'm lumping TV with any form of media consumption like books and the web. The main idea is I need time to digest.

1 - Ensure I have the absolute total desire to achieve enlightenment. I'm talking about Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich level and depth of desire. 2 - Apply that desire to a small chunk of ideas in the Book of Not Knowing. 3 - Circle back to step #1 and repeat. TAGR was my gateway self help book where I stumbled onto Leo's videos. I only found out about Ralston's book through Leo. That book I find so hard to stop reading - it just seems to make so much sense. What do you all think? How can I maximize output? Part of me says this is a pointless thing to post because while it might be the best approach for me, it won't necessarily be for anyone else.

You want 1 extra hour? Chip away at it. Wake up 15 minutes earlier and work your way to the 1 hour. Or if 5 minutes earlier works for you do that. Try it out and if it works for you. Sure, take in other people's advice but also find your own formula. (Although it could be for certain things, maybe someone's advice is so good you should follow it exactly!) Maybe when you wake up you don't just wake up. Note that as something else to work on, or decide if you should at all. Maybe slowly waking up is right for you. Or... google it and gather the perspective of The Internet and spend days, months (years?) mulling it over before you come to a conclusion.

3 thoughts: 0 - I have 3 post its that tell me to declutter my physical space, my finances and thoughts. The 1st 2 are easiest and that's what made it motivating to deal with. 1 - I used to collect ... well it really doesn't matter what it was. Along with it came the guilt. When I removed it from my life, there was also less guilt. 2 - I want to declutter my personal development consumption. I have an imbalance between consuming more and taking action.

In multiple videos Leo talks about slow, deliberate and mindful action (or worded some other way). I like the Lifestyle Minimalism one - one I like to re-listen to now and then. Here's a similar thread:

@jjer94 I forgot to frame this as a thought experiment.

Like 99.9% of most people, the rational part of me says "hell no, man - you can't teleport things". And like whatever % of most people, there is the other part of me that says, "well, there's plenty about the world and reality that I do not know". This is the angle I come from. Also I'm going off a past Leo video where he talks about levels of enlightenment and that there's level 10,000 or 100,000 (I could be misquoting exactly what he said): My question is, if there are possible levels of 10,000 or 100,000 of enlightenment yet most people are at 1, 2 or 3.. then does 100,000 mean something like teleportation? I stumbled onto this youtube video this morning which got me thinking about the above: One angle to this is: I suppose no one knows if it's possible until you get there. But then when you get so far, no one believes you. And then if I follow this line of thinking, then Scientology's concept of OT makes more sense, that it's their wording/approach/model of something similar. And another angle to this: After listening through only the first 15 minutes of Leo's latest Youtube upload "The 64 Most Fascinating Questions A Human Can Ask" that makes the Paramahamsa Nithyananda easier to digest...

Maybe you "shouldn't" do anything to combat procrastination. Keep doing it and see what the result is for something you don't "really" want to procrastinate on. Let it happen but then reflect on it - really slow down and analyze your thoughts/emotions/etc. Really think it through.

I like Phil Smy's (non-glowing) recommendation - that basically it's $67 and if you go through it you should get more than $67 worth of value out of it. He characterizes Tai as a curator of information is opposed to some guru you should follow. I will probably get it even though I'm sure there's some overlap with other sources that are on my radar like Brian Johnson. I agree with Nulik - Leo's free content is way better organized, methodical and prepared. Leo is way more deliberate and mindful...

I'm not good at remembering everything so I take notes. And I've always taken notes but I don't really have a "method". It's often what I see is available at the time: post-its iphone voice recorder evernote on iphone and/or laptop One thing i want to improve is regularly reviewing my notes/thoughts. My question is - what way (method/workflow) do you all handle this problem? I want to improve how I do "homework" on my mind. This question might sound lame, but it's an offshoot of watching Leo's latest video on taking mushrooms. There was a part where he talks about how ideas just pop into his mind. I get ideas too, then throw them onto post-its, although sometimes it's illegible or cryptic. ... I'd like some sort of system... we all need a system. That's what the guy in Memento says!

@ChimpBrain thanks for posting this. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it for the first time. It's worth watching over a few times. It would be interesting to get the creators of that video to talk about what they see in this one:

I think you should explore how far you can go with programming. I see strong parallels between writing software and personal development. You are always after improving how well you design code. You can do code reviews, looking through commit history, looking/reviewing other people's code on github. Pretty much, the web (aside from mainstream entertainment, social networking, ecommerce, etc) is this vast resource made by techies for sharing tech information (blog, github, irc, etc). You say you "don't have skills , can't make products" - I'll take your word on this. But you are trying to code, so you're building up those skills to make something. The cool thing about code is you can version control it, it's a save game feature. You can reuse, review, copy, paste, reformulate it. Evolve it. Eventually dots connect. How far you go depends on how much you put it. ... I wish I could say I'm saying all this because I come from a very accomplished position. In fact the above is part self-talk but it is what I believe. Note: oops, this thread started 4/23 but I'll go with it. I was searching for threads with "poker" in it, just curious/gambling to see what interesting content came up.