Human Mint

You have a good point. Often times seeing the big picture comes from engaging a lot with the minutia. Or following the example of sports, an athlete spends time with the minutia of health and fitness, working on things that if you see isolated have not apparent connection with running, but then they make up for the best result in the final run. But have in mind that training, as much as you get involved in the details, is done with a big picture in mind. You mostly do this without explicitly saying "ok, so my big picture is x, y, z", well maybe yes, but what I mean is that this is always working for you 24/7 in the background if you have a good sense of purpose. This touches the subject of the video, the human mind works this way. I am not only talking of life purpose, just survival. There is super intelligence that works for you very fine tuned. A lot of Christian people will not go beyond that paradigm if we are honest. I was baptized myself and went to a religious school, so at one point in my life I experienced the world as one does following Christianity. You have hundreds of quotes from the bible that you can use very conveniently to make up whatever story you want. I never got sucked that far luckily.

Dear actualized friends, I took notes of a particular thing that I liked. You may recall those parts of the episode. 1. Someone into Christianity experiences the world as Christian, whereas a scientist experiences it as material. So my question is what's the best worldview to see reality? What's the accurate way? Possible answers: Having deconstructed rationality Knowing how meaning is created. How objects enter the field of reality, how definitions are constructed 2. Counting numbers is mystical! But how do you explain this? Imposible. But understanding this is insanely important to acing life (acing yourself, your program) What I see in my own life: because of the way my habits are settled down I am hurting my ability to produce good sense-making. Big picture sense-making, grasping the big picture of things. I can feel into this mystical experience at first, but then get lost in rational micromanagement. I am good at seeing the overall arch of things but I need to double down on it, it is extremely important to pay more attention to that than to anything else. So a perfect long term objective: breaking free of rational micromanagement and in turn placing myself in a place where I grasp the most big picture aspects of reality every time.

Developing meaning takes a lot of years.

Ugh, that sucks. The beauty of the skill that you have acquired is that it can come back years later with a more mature mindset, and a more creative starting point. You can absolutely work as a musician, today easier than ever. But that doesn't guarantee that it will be less draining and you can end up in this same spot after another 3 years... The solution to wage slavery is making a passive income (great technology, assuming you don't scam). That's why I want to incorporate as much skill as I can so I can produce a genuine product. That's the only way I see myself generating wealth in the long term.

You will be surprised at how little people talk about it. I bet you don't know what meaningful really means or entails.

Ok ok. You want what you do to be meaningful, but you have to know that it could be anything as long as you cultivate it enough. That's why going all the way with something is important. You could help a lot of poor people through art, you don't know that, quite unlikely but not impossible. It just depends on how you frame your work. If writing is your stuff then go ahead and think all the possible ways it could have an impact on people.

This is a good talk. I am impressed that someone like her created wealth by just teaching social cues. Like she said in the video, is very hard to create positive social "cycles" as she calls it, but very easy to scatter negativity through negative facial cues for example, or negative commentaries. Is all about feedback loops. You could have a million dollar idea but if you comunicate it wrong no one is going to listen.

Every major AI is a reflection of our society, literally. So no surprises if it induces psychosis ha ha. That shit is infested with rationalism. Although I can use it perfectly fine and enhance my learning with it in some specific cases.

@SimpleGuy Have you watched the Life Purpose Course?

No idea, quite a lot possibly. I am not good at writing. For the rest, well... at the end is how your work impact others. I get the impulse of ranking profession in terms of practicality but that will limit you a lot. But you may be more productive that way.

I was walking the other day and I was feeling a little down, and I remember myself projecting my momentary misery into others. Is this thing where you automatically believe others are going through the exact same thing, or that they're feeling the same thing. I was able to catch myself doing this and then I realized the mind does this automatically without worries. If you're self-conscious enough you could at least be aware when you're projecting. But if there is noise around people 100% is due to the fact they cannot stop projecting. I am not really siting down contemplating this stuff, rather it is a progressive realization.

And I need to work on interesting communication. I have a hard time maintaining the level of appeal even with the things I am passionate about (specially with those things). Basically I want to be better at knowing well how to convey ideas. I am talking irl of course, internet has nothing to do with it.

Watched the first ~40' I am realizing that I've been stuck in rationalism on my own and didn't know it, but I knew something was wrong. It is not even autistic bs, because at least there is passion in autism, it is soulless nonsense. It is fake understanding.

Honestly OneNote is quite good for a commonplace book. I had troubles with it when I wanted to write over pdf, because is not built for that. Other than that it works. But I won't be surprised if I encounter more problems with it, my trust in Microsoft is already compromised (they put ads into my personal pc).

The only reason I want to start doing it is to be able to revisit old ideas that get buried over time. Other than that I don't find it much use.