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In my case, I procrastinated when I was conservative in an activity. For example, when I learn a language, if I don't go all out on learning it, I often find myself not wanting to do it. When I went all out on learning a language, I felt fire of motivation in my mind. I felt alive. For learning a language, going all out means tackling it from all possible angles simultaneously at once instead of focusing on one aspect of it at a time. I feel the same way about other things. If I don't go all out on something, I become bored and stop wanting to do it. If I wanted to be productive, I would have to invest all of myself. If I'm not fully engaged, I am not in flow. If I am not in flow, I become bored soon.

@kieranperez You may need professional help from psychoanalysts with regard to learned helplessness and your life in general.

There can be exceptions.

Leo can suggest something better than a political ideology in his conscious politics videos.

Have you not obtained enlightenment? You are still not old.

Perhaps, could you move the business to the internet? Leo Gura could have been shut down if he ran his business locally. You can benchmark Leo Gura. In any case, don't allow the government to step on you. Find another place where you can get back to your business as usual. Perhaps, you might want to contact TJ Reeves and ask him for advice.

How exactly do you thrive in a prison?

It seems Leo wants to create a political party someday.

@Norbert Lennartz I can imagine one way to escape the iron grip of society while being able to connect to it. Imagine that you have technologies that enable you to excise an uninhabited solar system out of the universe. You would get a small universe consisting of a solar system. Now, you have technologies that enable you to copy the solar system at its original uninhabited condition infinitely many times and link the copies together with wireless energy transfer and wireless communication technologies. You alone would have access to the energy output of thousands upon thousands of stars. You could give this system to each individuals as a gift. Each person could become the owner of many solar systems. With wireless energy transfer and wireless communication, you would be able to communicate with other solar universes and the origin universe. Infinite habitats and infinitely many energy sources can free each individual. I don't know any other way to make anarchy happen sustainably without adverse side effects. There are still rooms for infinite hell, though. A person who wants to lock down billions of creatures can use these technologies to create infinite hell. I think this kind of thing can potentially happen in the future although we won't be just given keys to such enormous power unless we get our shit together.

I think you might resonate with TJ Reeves. He doesn't like to be caged, either.

Stop drinking caffeinated beverages at least 9 hours before you go to bed.

The content of this post has been proven to work through my direct experiences. It is easy to implement. It works. Although it won't change your life overnight, you will stand a better chance with it. Sleep // It is the most important factor in maintaining positive momentum and your energy. Stop drinking caffeinated beverages at least 9 hours before you go to bed. Caffeine prevents you from falling asleep. Stop drinking alcohol several hours before you go to bed. It reduces the quality of your sleep. If you are deprived of sleep, you cannot take in new memories. It's like memento, the movie. The duration of your sleep should be a multiple of 90 minutes. Sleep for 7 hours and 30 minutes if possible. Sleep for at least 6 hours. If you sleep for 6 hours intead of 7, the activity of natural killer cells decreases by 75%. The decrease in natural killer cell activity increases the risk of getting cancer significantly. Sleep deprivation is a carcinogen. Pick a regular sleep schedule. Try to stick to it if possible. Shift work is classified as a carcinogen by world health organization. To ensure that you go to bed on time Make an alarm in your smartphone that reminds you to start winding-down ritual. During your winding-down ritual, stop your main activities. Do something soothing that helps with sleep such as meditation. My sleep schedule // I don't exactly stick to this schedule, but my sleep schedule is close to it. 9:45PM // My smartphone alarm signals the start of winding-down ritual. I close browser tabs and wrap up the work for today so that I can start working on it tomorrow. 10:15PM // My smartphone alarm tells me to go to bed. I stretch my body, empty my bladder, wander for a few minutes in my room, and go to bed. 10:30PM // I'm supposed to fall asleep by this time. 6:00AM // Light alarm and sound alarm are started by Raspberry Pi. After dinner, plan your time so that it's easy to stop what you are doing by the time of winding-down ritual. If you conduct a major computer upgrade after dinner, it might be difficult to stop what you are doing when it's time to wind down. After dinner, think twice before tackling any task that is unbounded in time. Unbounded tasks can keep you awake beyond the time when you need to go to bed. Use the combination of light alarm and sound alarm This combination is very powerful. At 6:00AM, the ceiling lights are turned on and hit my eyes at full brightness. It's hard not to wake up as long as I had enough sleep. It's gentler than loud sound alarm, too. The playlist of my sound alarm on Raspberry Pi contains a few songs and a few internet radio stations. When a song ends and a new song starts, my mind becomes sharper, and I find it easier to wake up. The sound alarm doesn't need to be loud because light alarm is powerful. Strong Morning Routine boosts your momentum and productivity significantly. After I wake up, I turn off the ceiling lights and turn off sound alarm. Brush my teeth with hands that are opposite to the ones that I usually brush my teeth with. Doing so stimulates my mind and removes any degree of grogginess that I have. Plug my smartphone to a power source Start a warm shower followed by a cold shower. I open up my morning routine checklist on my computer and execute the rest of the morning routine. A strong morning routine can make the difference between a productive day and a lazy day. I designed my morning routine in order to minimize resistance and to start shower as early as possible. Taking a shower as early as possible is important to not allow myself to feel lazy. Elon Musk once said taking a shower is the most important thing for productivity. It is for me, too. Maintaining good mood is important for productivity. If you anticipate an angry argument, try to prevent it from happening in the first place. Change the future. If unpleasant thoughts come up, try not to attach negative emotions to the thoughts. By attaching negative emotions to thoughts, emotions and thoughts reinforce each other and create a negative loop that's hard to escape. It takes only a few hours of practice to start seeing tangible benefits from trying to disassociate negative emotions from thoughts. Practicing this can make the difference between an emotionally difficult but productive day and a distracted day filled with random youtube videos and random internet browsing. I guess this technique is not enough in the long run, but it can create a runway that's long enough to launch you into the next level. Exercise, stretch, and drink in between work sessions After working for 25~50 minutes, take a break for 5~10 minutes. During each break, do a light workout, stretch your body, drink water, and walk for a bit. The combination of exercise and sedona method can be powerful for maintaining positive momentum for hours. If you don't do it between work sessions, you are going to lose productivity in an hour or two. You can easily fall prey to negative emotions and start procrastinating soon if you don't do it. Avoid majoring in minors. I just read https://thefitness.wiki/getting-started-with-fitness/#Avoid_Majoring_in_the_Minors which tells you to focus on the most important factors and ignore minor details. Don't prematurely optimize factors that are much less important when you are starting something. Focus on the most important fundamentals. I tell you this because I wasted two years on perfecting minor details and neglected most important fundamental factors. A proper task management system configured to highlight most important factors can tell you when you are majoring in minors. For example, you can waste months just on studying supplements and a few more months on studying other minor details even before you start working on body building. Avoid distractions During meals, don't have a smart device nearby. If you do, you can easily be distracted because your time is unstructured during meals. Try to quit masturbation and porn because it is a huge time sink. Or, make a dedicated time slot for masturbation if you don't want to wet your underwears due to your wet dreams. Doing it once per two weeks is a good start. In the short term, those quick productivity hacks are very helpful. In the longer term, you want to set proper expectations. Watch If you underestimate a project and try to execute it, you are going to be frustrated and give up. For example, USA thought iraq war was going to be won in a few weeks because it had superior military power. It didn't plan appropriately. It failed. Research how experts in the field of your interest achieved what they achieved. What costs did they pay to achieve what they achieved? Read and watch the behind-the-scene stories of any artwork that you admire. By learning about the costs and the obstacles, you can plan accordingly. If a project turned out to be 5~10 times as big or costly as you anticipated, you would plan big. If you are blindsided by unexpected obstacles, you can easily give up. My thoughts Set lower limits and upper limits on your expectations. When you discover that you are near lower limits, you are not blindsided, and you can plan accordingly to raise yourself up. When you discover that you haven't been able to exceed upper limits for a while, you are not blindsided, and you can adjust your mindset in order to work harder at exceeding upper limits.

Leo doesn't want us to submit low-quality threads. He warned that he will ban those who continuously post low-quality threads on a regular basis. According to Teal Swan's The Anatomy of Loneliness, you feel lonely if parts of you were rejected by people around you. I felt lonely because the part of me that wants to write low-quality shit posts was blocked here. I wanted to reconnect to that part of me that wants to write whatever the hell I wanted. Suddenly, things clicked in my mind. I could write whatever the hell I wanted in my daily journal without worrying about being banned. I'm not going to ban myself from writing my own journal. It seems that journaling helps you retain connection to the parts of yourself that are not wanted or rejected by people around you. Reclaim your voice in your journal today. I write my daily journal entries as text files in folders named after years. For example, /path/to/diary/2019/2019-06-07.txt, /path/to/diary/2019/2019-06-08.txt, ... You can also write your journal in markdown or any other lightweight markup language.

Presumably, anything is possible with God. Perhaps, enlightened superhuman AIs might be able to do telekinesis.

@ValiantSalvatore Keep your room dark for several hours before you go to bed Don't drink caffeinated drink for at least 9 hours before you go to bed Light will adjust your circadian rhythm. Light alarm is no exception. If you want to keep your circadian rhythm constant, light alarm helps. Light alarm adjusts your circadian rhythm very quickly. Lower the color temperature of your monitor at night with software. Seeing blue light at night interferes with melatonin

You probably want your room to be dark when you go to bed and be light when you wake up. I set up my Raspberry Pi such that it turns on my room light at 6:00AM. It is a very powerful light alarm. My room's ceiling light is very bright. Light alarm is more powerful than sound alarm. At 6:00AM, my room becomes bright, and raspberry pi plays music through my passive speakers. You might want to set up a light alarm as well. Change your room's light switch with a smart switch. If you can't change the switch, you can change the bulbs with smart bulbs.

@ValiantSalvatore bi-phasic sleep schedule can work. poly-phasic sleep schedule is said to be bad for body. Spanish people enjoy siesta(afternoon nap) which is essentially bi-phasic sleep schedule. I think bi-phasic sleep reduces productivity because it cuts into the most productive hours. I avoid eating too much during lunch to avoid siesta.

You can be at stage Green and enjoy demonizing others very much. A stage Blue or Orange person may not enjoy demonizing others.

Which one between smoking and masturbation is harder to quit?

What is this?

Like north korea?

Proper expectation is important. It is easy to underestimate the amount of time, energy, and emotional labor it takes to find and be with a high-quality girl. A high-quality marriage is rarer. Because I have realistic expectations, I don't pursue girls at this moment. I'm already spread thin.

Recently, I gained a habit of eating random food outside. This is not just bad for health but also for my finance. I'm not happy with that. Eating random food feels good temporarily, but any food experience becomes forgotten in an hour. I want to replace food habit with something that's more permanent and more economical and more productive. I thought of a few ways out of this habit. Engineer a new habit Anticipate the cues of the habit, and take pre-emptive actions to avoid the cues. Working out may improve my mood and preempt any futile desire for food Improving regularity of sleep schedule and morning routine may catapult positive momentum to a point where I don't feel a need to eat food to avoid emptiness. I observed a trend in my past. The trend is that sleep and morning routine are two most important factors in my productivity. Eat, drink, sleep, and exercise properly to keep my mind sharp. A sharp mind doesn't eat random food. Combine sedona method with a short workout. Exercise and sedona method seem to be a powerful combination. If you have better ideas, share yours.

My thread was locked without explanation. You were luckier.

Perhaps, you may want to take a bluetooth keyboard with you. Are speed reading techniques still unnatural to you?