Raphael

Life Advice For Young People Excellent videos as usual that I need to implement.

09 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:58 AM - 10:10 AM: I had a call with a client, but he then got interrupted. Work Duration: 12 minutes 10:16 AM - 10:23 AM: I continued and finished the previous call. Work Duration: 7 minutes 10:36 AM - 10:40 AM: I had another quick call. Work Duration: 4 minutes 03:00 PM - 03:25 PM: I had a call with a client. Work Duration: 25 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 09:28 AM - 09:57 AM: I did a few HTML/CSS and Typescript fixes but then got interrupted by a client. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes 11:30 AM - 12:51 AM: I did many small improvements and fixes and created two new empty components. I was having parasite thoughts, but then put some chill music and felt much more relaxed. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 01:53 PM - 02:48 PM: I starting to work on the search filters then notice that there's going to be an issue with the API. I was a little distracted and agitated. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 03:37 PM - 04:28 PM: More minor corrections. Deep Work Duration: 51 minutes I woke up early, but take too much time to get started. I spent time on this forum and spent time reading about politics. I'm too much concerned about politics, I need to focus more about my objectives. Total Work Duration: 4 hours 24 minutes, including 3 hours 36 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

That's an excellent insight. I also noticed that in myself, when I wanted to help people, to "show them the way" I would do it because as an ego I wanted to feel good to help people and be the one that would improve their situation.

Not Trusting Leo I really like Leo's content and highly resonate with him most of the time, but at the same time that's almost everything that I watch and I have been following him since the end of 2015. I'm ingurgitating too much information from him. I also feel like he is shaming people in his videos for not doing what he is doing, even though the shaming decreased a lot in the last 2 - 3 years probably because he grew a lot too. I need to stop trusting everything that he says and spend more time alone investigating myself.

@Dutch guy What do you like and not like? What are your values?

@Epikur No Trump will not be re-elected

@Epikur I recognize valid perspectives when I see them. They are many factors, culture plays a role, geography plays a role, exploitation and abuses play a role too, etc..

I entirely agree. They are many factors on which human evolution depends on and it's twisted in many ways.

@Dutch guy @Preety_India It seems to me that you are both biased. When I'm pointing issues about some white people @Dutch guy is reactive: When I'm pointing issues about some Indian people @Preety_India is reactive: Next time I will point out issues between aliens and human beings. The aliens will tell me that I'm racist against them because I'm pointing out issues about themselves and the human beings will tell me that I'm racist about them too because they are afraid and reactive against the aliens that exploited them and will see any critic as an attack.

Please note that I'm half French and half Indian. I mostly had a white European education and mostly spent my time around white people, but because I have mixed origins I understand both perspectives. Yes, this is true most white people don't have rich parents. My mom is white, but is not rich, just average. However, even if she was average for the standards in Europe, this was rich compared to the living conditions of my dad. What is average in developed countries is rich in many places of the world, and of course, poverty exists in developed countries too. The main point that she is and I'm pointing out is that if most people in a country are able to live well (have a job, have good living conditions and eat correctly) is because their governments abused other countries. Even if the main population is not rich according to their standards, they still benefit from it and think they are average where they are privileged. By the way, I also experienced white racism from my Indian community because they would see only the white part in me and think that I'm rich and make nasty comments, where I struggle. So I understand your perspective too.

08 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:43 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 01:46 PM - 02:16 PM: Discussion with a client. Work Duration: 28 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 10:30 AM - 11:42 AM: I added an API call, saved some data in cookies, and fixed the scroll back issue for the navigation grid. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 12:20 AM - 01:11 PM: Work on URLs to make them more user friendly. Deep Work Duration: 51 minutes 02:35 PM - 3:52 PM: More updates to the navigation grid. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 04:00 PM - 04:57 PM: Cart loading on application initialization. I'm trying to access the data with Redux in a component, I'm having some error. I had a lot of parasite thoughts that came back about previous bad experiences in work environments. Deep Work Duration: 57 minutes Total Work Duration: 4 hours 45 minutes, including 4 hours 17 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

There's also an interesting opposite dynamic present in some countries. For example, in my country white people are a minority, but they live very well where the majority have lower living standards. That's because they came first on the territory and had a lot of slaves that worked for them several centuries ago. Because of this, they accumulated a lot of wealth and moved away from survival faster than other people. Nowadays, some of the biggest companies in the country are the properties of white people, and the majority work for them in regular jobs and are underpaid. The majority is therefore around stage blue, where the white minority is at stage orange with some of them moving towards green. What's sad is that their past and current exploitations are now allowing them to be more developed, happier, and more tolerant of other people where the rest of the population is more fearful, angry and racist towards them. Some of them who are around orange/green are very disconnected from the general reality. They don't understand the majority reactions because their western education now teaches about equality of all races, sustainable development, women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, etc where the general population doesn't care and is more concerned about basics survival needs.

07 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 11:32 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:03 AM - 09:47 AM: I had a call with a client. Work Duration: 44 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 12:15 AM - 01:12 PM: I did multiple fixes and improvements on a client's website. I distracted myself a little sometimes. Deep Work Duration: 53 minutes 07:22 PM - 09:05 PM: Bug fixes on the client's website. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 09:10 PM - 11:16 PM: I did some layout fixes and start to implement the cart functionality. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes I didn't expect to work today, but sometimes people just come at random times. I was lazy to get started, so I worked late at night. Total Work Duration: 5 hours 26 minutes, including 4 hours 42 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

06 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:05 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:10 AM - 10:38 AM: Research on MongoDB security. Work Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 10:56 AM - 12:56 AM: Research on security and secure databases. Work Duration 2 hours 01:42 PM - 03:10 PM: I continued to improve to database security. I also got interrupted two times by a client. Work Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 03:22 PM - 04:35 PM: I configured MongoDB to use SSL/TLS encryption, but I still didn't figure out how to connect to it. Work Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 9 minutes, including 4 hours 41 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Producing At An Elite Level High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) * (Intensity of Focus) To produce at your peak level, work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

Deliberate Practice Focus your attention on a specific skill Receive feedback so you can correct your approach to keep your attention exactly where it's most productive Learning requires intense concentration. Deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction, and it instead requires uninterrupted concentration.

Deep Work Helps To Quickly master hard things Produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed Deep work helps to quickly learn complicated things. To remain valuable in our economy you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. The real rewards are reserved for those who are comfortable building innovative distributed systems that run a service.

The Danger Of Shallow Work Shallow work: non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts don't create a lot of new value and are easy to replicate. Shallow work is not a choice that can be easily reversed. Too much time spent in states of frenetic shallowness permanently reduces someone's capacity to perform deep work and excel in life.

05 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 08:03 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:24 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:56 AM - 11:05 AM: I continued the installation of Android Studio, but I'm facing some configuration issues. I was distracted during this session as I was watching youtube at the same time. Work Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 11:35 AM - 01:07 PM: I found out that most of the issues that I had were caused by a lack of free space on my drive. However, I still have other configuration issues. Work Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 02:10 PM - 04:04 PM: My environment is finally set up to develop mobile apps with Flutter. It was quite painful, but now I'm ready. I was distracted during the session as a lot of files were downloading and configurations were made. Work Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 07:50 PM - 08:51 PM: I wanted to do some deep work, but I found out that someone hacked my database. The person wants me to pay 0.015 BTC so that I can recover my data. Hopefully, all the data were only test data, so it's not an issue. It seems like the attacker didn't had direct access to the server, but find another way to disrupt the database. He/She probably either found a way to insert MongoDB code from the backend API or directly connected through brute force. The second option seems more plausible as the database is accessible from anywhere and has a very weak password. I will research tomorrow to find the real cause. Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute I woke up very late because I almost didn't sleep last night, my mind was crazy. Nevertheless, I still managed to set up my mobile development environment and acknowledge a database hack that I will investigate tomorrow. Total Work Duration: 5 hours 38 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

04 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:32 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:57 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 08:35 AM - 08:57 AM: Date picker customization searches. Work Duration: 22 minutes 10:12 AM - 10:40 AM: I had a call with a client. Work Duration: 28 minutes 04:01 PM - 04:33 PM: I started to install Flutter and its dependencies. Work Duration: 32 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 07:41 AM - 08:35 AM: I went back working on the custom date component, I did a lot of progress. So far, so good. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes 09:07 AM - 10:07 AM: I continued the work on the date component. I got interrupted by a call. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11:07 AM - 12:43 AM: I continued the work on the date component. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 02:10 PM - 03:48 PM: I completed the date component. It looks good, I hope that there will not be any unexpected issues on this in the future. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes I'm starting to get back on track. I feel like when I'm using affirmations, when I do a lot of effort, and identify myself a being productive and focused, my ego is afraid of failing, so I worry and it causes me to fail. Whereas, where I just accept reality and let go of expectations, I get out of my mind, and nature perfectly do its job without any efforts. What a paradox of personal development, this is worth contemplating. Total Work Duration: 6 hours 36 minutes, including 5 hours 14 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

I'm See Myself In My Family I see myself as a very exotic being. I see myself in my grandma, I see her social anxiety that I have. She is always afraid to disturb people, so she hides her emotions and stays alone. Because she represses so much her emotions, they come back later as explosions. It's similar to me, but I don't show my explosions and prefer to experience them alone. I see myself in my deceased grandpa, he used to be very maniacal, care a lot about details, and be organized. I take attention to details too and I'm a little maniacal in my work too. I see myself in my dad, he is his own boss, has its own business. He lives with hate and anger, is very disorganized, criticizes and is hateful of everybody, is authoritarian and controlling too. He doesn't care about anyone and sees himself as superior to everyone on the planet. But he is also charismatic and funny sometimes and says directly whatever comes to his mind. I want to be my own boss too, I'm, in fact already my own boss, but I'm currently unstable. I hated the world and other people most of my life too, I also like to have some control because I see most people as incompetents that need to be guided. I made enormous progress on these issues in the last five years, I'm now a lot more in peace with people, but I still have social anxiety. I try my best to be as honest as possible and say things even if they hurt me. I had some charisma too but lost it in the past years due to emotional abuse. I will get it back. I see myself in my mother, I see her care for her family. I see how idealistic she is, I see that she wants everybody on the planet to be free and live in peace and harmony. I see how she is compassionate and cares about her health and the wellbeing of other people. It's fortunate that she is here, she adds a balance to my life. I'm also quite idealistic, I'm concerned for the well being of humanity (what a paradox considering that I hated people most of my life). I want the world to evolve so that we can all live in peace together. I see myself as a mix of beings from all around the world. I see myself as white, and I see myself as indian. I also see myself as asian, and also as african. I didn't live in a white majority country most of my life, nor did I ever visited India. I was born, raised, and currently live in Africa, but I am not a black African too. I'm a descendant of people who experienced the second world war, of people who lived in very good conditions and enjoyed life. I'm also a descendant of people who experienced extreme poverty, who worked almost as slaves, who didn't even have clothes, soap, toothbrushes, and beds to sleep in just 60 years ago. I'm a combination of highly selfish people, but also selfless people. I'm a strange being, I attract eyes wherever I go. Some people are intrigued while looking at me and come ask me questions. It happened wherever I went to. I see myself as a complex chemical mix trying to balance itself.

03 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:27 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:14 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: No work for today Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

My phychotherapist told me that some people don't even believe in god. She was mostly at stage blue / orange, I stop seeing her.

02 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:35 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 10:21 AM - 12:15 AM: I created a few new components and did some CSS work. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 01:12 PM - 14:02 PM: I added and styled a delete button and did some design experiments. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes 02:08 PM - 03:14 PM: I tried to integrate a date picker. I got how the directive works, I need to create a model and component to make it more reusable. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 03:21 PM - 04:51 PM: I started to create the new component and its functionalities. So far, so good. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Total Work Duration: 5 hours 20 minutes, including 5 hours 20 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

@Eren Eeager People are sick of being exploited by toxic stage blue/orange. Leo resumed it pretty well in this video: