Rigel

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  1. Well lets add the information necessary to be accomplished in a thousand other disciplines of similar complexity to what I said. My point was that life is infinite. There’s infinite specific knowledge to be learned and your human mind is not. You have limited time to learn unlimited information. Leo’s video on decisiveness is à propos here. I want to keep this practical. This was about calendars and to do lists😄
  2. I think you are right about that. It’s just a metaphor. Your mind is much more complex than a hard drive. Much more complex than I make it out to be here. I should have been more careful there.
  3. Yes it does. Your human mind is finite. Only an infinite mind wouldn’t have a limit of capacity and at that point it wouldn’t be here having this discussion. A human can’t be an astronaut and a musician and an author and a psychologist and a race car driver and a programmer and the president of 10 different countries and the starter of 34 different businesses in different fields at once. Humans are finite.
  4. @Bobby_2021 That’s reasonable. Maybe you got some kind of mind that remembers better than most. I still think using a calendar and to do list is good advice for most people hence the post.
  5. @Chadders A lot of people will want to sue us but I love apple reminders as well😅 That’s the one I use.
  6. @Bobby_2021 You do you brother. I am biased and ain’t ashamed of it. I don’t see any value in remembering licence plates. To me it’s taking space on the hard drive for no reason. My bias is towards creativity & awareness, not remembering the door lock code on the 15 different places I gotta go teach every month and where I’ll never go again. It’s not like I don’t care about the things I write down. I write them down because I care about them and I understand my human mind is finite. Every time I sit down to practice my instrument I increase my capacity to hold information like you are saying. But you gotta choose what’s important and what’s not at some point. You can’t remember everything about everything. My point is that by deciding what’s important and putting it in the calendar or the notes saves all the energy you would be directing towards remembering it. That energy is not wasted. You just use it for bigger and better things.
  7. Who claims that? I’ve never heard anyone say that. But if I ever met one I would respond in the same manner I would a flat earther handing out flyers at the exit of the subway. “Ok cool, bye” or just ignore. It’s not like a person saying this would be interested in having a serious discussion anyways lol. Just a waste of time.
  8. I remember a guy a while back arguing here that you should not write down your thoughts but try to remember everything inside your head. He was arguing that by doing this you increase the capacity of your mind to hold information. To me that is idiocy. Let me explain. The real estate of your mind is going to be filled at full capacity no matter what’s held within it. Which leads me to the insight(very obvious): Learn to use a goddam calendar & to do list. If you try to remember every appointment & shit you gotta do on a daily basis, you are not training your mind to increase its real estate, you are actively taking it away from things like creativity, spontaneous insights or general awareness of your emotions and your surroundings. Earlier today I was on the bus, commuting and I started to tear up looking at the beauty of my hands. That sort of moment can’t happen if I have useless junk in my mind like: “I gotta remember to pay the rent tomorrow”. Fuck that useless information😅 I’d much rather have an app remember for me and send me a notification when I have to do it. If you are delegating the task of remembering chores, appointments, action steps toward your goals, calling your grandmother, brushing your teeth even, you aren’t decreasing the ability of your mind to hold information. You are just freeing space for your mind to hold better information. Your mind is made to have creative thoughts not to remember them. Calendar & to do list are as important as a common place book in remembering what’s important to you. Have a block in your calendar just to contemplate what you want, what you need to do to get there & fill it up with those high quality action steps instead of just going about your day being swayed by things that aren’t on purpose.
  9. I guess that’s the same answer as any other “how”: With consciousness! but that’s no very useful is it.
  10. I'll have to try this one!
  11. Aaah another diet fad. Should have seen this coming. Yes but soy milk curdles when I put it in my tea :'(
  12. Water, sleep, exercise, hygiene, functional breathing. Those are the only one size fits all that I know of. If it's a specific food or supplement I'll call bullshit on it right away. Please don't tell me to drink my own piss. I've seen those fools on yt already.
  13. Really? You have big ambitions but you can’t make yourself care? Really? Sounds like your bullshitting yourself to me. Either you don’t actually have big ambitions or you actually care & are in denial that you care. What your mind thinks in any given moment isn’t as important as your mind thinks it is.
  14. What's helped me quit weed was having something to do that's meaningful to me. What are you doing when you get high? If you get high then watch TV that's the real problem. If you had something worth while to do you would clearly see that weed isn't helping. Let's say you really want to learn programming. You are addicted to weed right now so you would get high and then go about trying to learn programming. What you would notice then is that weed is crippling you in learning fast & remembering the shit you are learning. So the natural thing to do would be to stop using weed. What do you want to do with your life?? Quitting weed isn't an inspiring goal. Figure out something that lights a fire under your ass & which requires you to quit weed as a by product. What freed me from weed was realizing that weed wasn't the problem. I was.
  15. Devoting my life to mastery & learning is the best decision I've made so far in this life. You're right it truly never ends. The journey is the destination. That's another true cliché to add to the list! I am 10 years ahead of you in the skill you are learning right now & I still feel like a kid wetting my feet on the beach looking at this grotesquely gigantic ocean. I want to be able to fully submerge myself in it but I'll never be able to touch the seabed where the depth is real😁