Carl-Richard

Back when I discovered some of my Red blind spots and was exploring emotions like anger, I discovered a neat conceptual distinction: reactive aggression vs. proactive aggression. Both concepts are useful to learn to recognize and integrate if you struggle with a Red shadow. Reactive aggression is when you're able to say "no" and to react when somebody disrespects your boundaries, and to use the accompanying emotional energy that arises as intended. In other words, if you start to feel anger, then be angry at the person that made you angry. Don't instinctively internalize your anger, bite your tongue or run and hide with your tail between your legs: externalize your anger. In other words, don't be a doormat. That said, obviously you have to do what is appropriate in each situation (as externalizing is not always appropriate), which can be a learning process. Proactive aggression is when you're able to approach, confront, claim, assert. For example, it's about approaching a girl, or confronting a bully, or claiming what is yours, or generally asserting yourself in the situation. This requires tapping into a much more visceral and persistent type of energy that doesn't just arise in the moment. It's always there. I identified it (cornily) as "Red Andrew Tate" energy. It quite literally feels like a burning fire in your abdomen. It can be tapped into consciously, but it can also be harmful if not done carefully.

I get it. I just want someone to give me a black and white answer that probably doesn't exist: name a principle or mechanism for why medium heart rate over longer periods should necessarily be associated with better cardiovascular health than intense heart rate over shorter periods? (or vice versa). Is there such a thing as a golden "rep range" for cardio? (like the 6-12 rep range for hypertrophy).

Have you tried it? The type of contractions your chest makes after a proper sprint is unmatched. The 4 minute rest is not really rest. It's 3 minutes struggling to regain your breath, and 1 minute to get ready to explode. The idea that the most optimal form of cardiovascular exercise must necessarily involve keeping your heart rate at a constant medium pace for a long period of time seems like an unquestioned dogma to me. Why do we understand that this is not the case with resistance training but not cardio?

I'm offended by your lack of relevant answers.

Hedonism doesn't work, because the world and the self is multi-faceted and constantly changing, and "pleasure" cannot be harvested infinitely from one single source, or just a few favorites. It's not in alignment with how reality works. On the other hand, when what you derive nourishment from is aligned with reality, it's called "meaning". Meaning is the basis of "eudaimonia", which stands in contrast to hedonism. Meaning requires that you face pains, fears, conflict; generally what the hedonist tries to avoid; because that is what reality craves out of you for you to exist in reality. Meaning is not anti-thetical to pleasure or desire either. It just recognizes that pleasure doesn't last, and that you have many desires to tend to, both higher and lower, and that you can't afford to get stuck on just one limited strategy. You have to be constantly moving in flow with reality. Reality is movement. If you stagnate, that is depression. If you chase just one thing, you stagnate. You need to do everything that makes you a full-fledged human: eat, drink, sleep, have sex, talk to people, be with friends, be with family, go to work, buy groceries, take out the trash, go for a walk, work out, enjoy hobbies, engage in rituals, seek understanding, connect with the sacred. You get so much more by doing these things to the best of your ability than to just sit and eat cake or watch porn or inject heroin.

Just practice, don't be so serious. Or be serious, but ask yourself in meditation why you're serious. Dive into that part of your mind. Make that your practice. Your mind constantly gives you free practices.

From a cognitive science perspective, maps are created by your ability to manipulate information from current sensory input and information stored in your long-term memory, using your working memory, a.k.a. your own inner cognitive workspace. These maps may consist of simple and concrete representations like mental images, colors, sounds, shapes, spatial qualities, etc. (like when navigating a familiar building in your mind), or they may involve abstract representations like language, symbols, mathematical operations, logical reasoning, etc. (like when remembering the multiplication table or Hegel's theory of dialectics). When people say "the map is not the territory", they often refer to the more abstract kinds of maps.

Confusion is a state of (often conscious) mental conflict brought on by uncertainty, ignorance, lack of control, etc. Getting rid of confusion may involve accepting uncertainty, ignorance, lack of control, etc.

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Nothing is happening.

Imagination is imaginary.

I actually don't believe you. No university has a "completely dead" social scene or no parties, just varying quantities of it. And that quantity doesn't actually mean anything, unless you plan on going to multiple parties at the same time (which is just not a thing). There are social people at every university, and they will find a way to party, and there is no way you can stop them. You just need to find them. You need to stop comparing yourself to some Nirvanic standard of what you think college should be and actually have the college experience. You're going to waste your college experience, but it's not because of your university: it's because of your attitude. Change your attitude.

Are you currently experiencing writing this post ("Are there conscious bubbles independent of mine?")? Nope, you're not currently experiencing writing this post. Then did you not experience writing it? Well, yes you did? You certainly did experience writing this post. Ok, then how could God create an experiential bubble that is separate from your current experiential bubble? Well duh, that is what God is doing all the time. Every single nanosecond of your existence, your experience is being dissociated from another experience. So is God capable of it? Of course. The evidence is abundant.

Is that true; that 140 bpm for 30 min leads to less fatigue than sprinting 20 secs x 4 with 4 minutes rest in-between? And are the cardiovascular effects comparable?

But it goes to show that choosing sprint as your choice of cardio at least wouldn't counteract getting jacked, meanwhile choosing a form of training where the top atheletes associated with that training look like twigs would, no? I'm not thinking about using sprinting as a sole method for getting jacked. I just want my cardio to go well with my already well-established weight training habit.

Maybe that is why sprinters are so jacked? I'm not sedentary btw 😆

Drink some milk.

@The0Self Ok, now let's say I also want to optimize testosterone levels. Does that lean more in favor of incline treadmill walking or sprints?

If there was a best way to train, would you not choose that way? Let's say I want to optimize blood flow to the brain at rest. How should I train?

This is one of the ways that (some) dopamine neurons work: unexpected rewards are much more rewarding than expected rewards. In other words, if the “reward prediction error” is positive (the outcome of the reward minus the expected reward is positive), then you’ll experience an increase in dopamine. Therefore, if you expect the worst outcome for something (e.g. if you’re extremely anxious about talking to a girl), then there is an even greater reason to do the thing, because the odds are that, at some point, given enough tries, you’ll experience some positive outcome that you didn’t expect, and you’ll experience that outcome as extremely positive, and thus you’ll be more likely to seek out that experience again (because that is how reinforcement works). This doesn’t just apply to talking to girls. It generally makes the case for the virtue of courage. If you do things that you expect to be extremely hard or expect to certainly contain bad outcomes (and we know that such extreme expectations are generally exaggerated), when you get on the other side, the odds are that your perspective will change for the better. So get out there and do the hard thing! :>

@Loveeee That was just a bit of a fun coincidence, but regardless of that, I still don't believe that the fact of reality being a dream eliminates any suffering. We seem to be talking about different kinds of dreams.

That's funny, because I seriously entertain the idea that people in your nightly dreams are just as real as people in real life.

I used to be extremely afraid of public speaking all since high school, then I practiced like a madman for one of my presentations in university, and it went unexpectedly really well. That single experience transformed my view of public speaking. I was actually excited for when I could do it again.

Why are you glad it's all relative?