Human Mint

Dan Mayo A drummer who I'm absorbing stuff from

Its 23:40, about to go to bed and today i've realized something important: The fruits one wants come from the work spread over time. Not from an isolated moment of hard work; an attitude I have deeply ingrained. This kind of teachings are easy to know. In my case, virtually all my life i've been knowing this one, but I'm just beginning to integrate it. Plus i am also mastering the art of cutting off the infamous distraction habit. For example, in order to sit for an hour in the morning tomorrow (and from now on), i have put a lot of signals with clothes and written sheets pointing to my meditation mat so when i wake up tomorrow i won't have chances to forget about it. A sheet on the mat says: ¡Green tea and let's meditate! Objective: To meditate every day one hour in the morning after waking up and one hour before bed. I keep taking cold showers every day. A lot of improvement made. I found the following quote over there and really liked it, it expresses what i feel about this discipline: "Feels like I understood the trick with cold showers again. It is about opening up to fully and embracing the resistance instead of clenching ones teeth and just pushing through." From "My meditation Journal" of @Thittato

Have I try the excercises I invented yet? No. I want to but no done it yet. Resistance i guess. Fear of frustration. But anyways, the wanting to create something amazing is still there. 3 days have passed since i started this journal so is not a big procastination. Yesterday i started "modern armony" with a music professor. I want this person to be my mentor. He is the guy i mentioned before in my other journal. I already know him a bit and he has a lot of knowledge and passion. Before the next class with him im gonna re-read the mentor section of the book "Mastery" by R. Greene. We didn't embody the roles yet, its a matter of time and correct decisions from my part. He needs to embody the confidence of a mentor. I intuit he would love it. Both of us will grow from a dynamic mentor-apprentice relationship. I gotta keep showing interest. Social intelligence is a necessary skill in this process. Being able to abandon the naive perspective and to embrace a realistic one.

First post on brainstorming different small bets (mini projects) in which one has to compose musical pieces within certain rules. Inviting others to post their ideas as well. Idea #1 - For drums - the idea behind this exercises is to develop better skills at coming up with new beats Producing 20 different beats using any tempo and time signature. 20 beats to put some number. The idea is that one experiments more variations until boredom. Use songs with drum bases that you like to get ideas. Call it stealing if you want. Important: divide the 20 beats in 2 categories: simple and complex, whatever that means for you. Or better yet: use the questions i wrote in the previous post -see above- to make them. Idea #2 - Again, producing 20 different beats but this time with drums and electronic beats. A combination of both. The phases in this exercises would be: first to create the beat, second practicing it in the instrument until it sounds good, and third recording everything and mixing. Idea #3 - This one would be like the mother of the previous two. This exercise consist of producing two songs using three different beats each one. The structure, bridges and every detail will be free from rules so you can unleash compositive creativity. For example you can add effects in the recording, creating a build up and then exploding, etc. But the main character of the songs will consist of three distinctive beats. Idea #4 - editor - not clear yet, but probably something similar to the anterior ones but with added voice. I don't know how and i will start with the previous exercises so i can imagine better this idea.

The heart of the beats ¿What personality does a particular drumbeat have? ¿How many personalities can I create with the beats? ¿What emotion do they express? ¿What are its relatives? ¿Where do they come?

Studying and aplying concepts of the book "Mastery" by R. Greene into my practices is a must do habit. Idealy this would be a daily practice to all the different activities i want to do. A concept extracted from the book: Chapter.Keys to Mastery/Step Two/Part C Using the current. That is the dialogue between our thoughts and reality. The constant flow of trial-error and improving. Scientific method in other words.

But, as the title says, people pleasing is a different thing, right?

Have you read "mastery" by Robert Greene? In my case it clarified a lot, plus the LP course. Basically you are struggling because you don't have a tangible purpose, one that is very apealing to your heart. The amount of work you put into something depends in the value it has for you. If you hate school it doesn't matter how much you try to develop a strong workethic, you'll just keep failing again and again. Consider all of this. The techniques you use to call willpower into action just to sit and do particular task are good as well, in my opinion.

Honestly, your list is pretty much what i came down with too. I would add cold showers in 4. and honesty as a value in 2. Then there is the "how" process: how are you going to develop intelligence and curiosity?

40- Concepts: Patience "If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession." — Carlos Castaneda Yes, the mind is capable of rearranging itself in inconceivable ways. What it only need: must believe to be the case for it to change. And to give it proper food.

https://neo4ic.com/pages/about This is a mundane clothing store except for the vision they have. This is not intended to be spam btw. This is a green store. Read their about section linked above. Also it is an example of mastery and purpose. Beautiful. "Because with belief in our hearts, even a humble display of graphics on clothing can create a strong and positive impact on our reality." Neo4ic

9:00 I need to get a mentor. I already have one in mind. I need to tear down the notion of "I already know" and to act by the notion of apprentice. 22:46 This whole shit is laborious

Cheers my friends!

Don't you feel its side effects? It does harm your body. Don't fool yourself with tentations! I mean if you are gonna drink it, do it knowing that you are harming your body. It's like sugar: it feels good, gives you an extra boost, but it doesn't give you any energy actually. The contrary, it affects your body systems by worsening their states. Instead, try nootropics for the mood.

10:37 I want a strong mind able to be in a creative mood for long periods of time. Strong to resist hard work. Discipline and effortless concentration. Free from vicious needs. With a proper balance of gentleness and effort I'll be able to transform my character. A healthy one. The key component is time and consistance. Proper practices. Even going for an adventure can bring me closer to that. Like the one Darwin did. I would like to go to psychology sessions as well, to address insecurities and fear. I am a bit insecure about it (of course), but that may indicate that is the correct move. I do not like to be vulnerable to others. Not face to face. It sucks (not the being vulnerable part, but the feeling of insecurity and fear). That's why I want to develop trust with a professional. If things progress there, it will do nothing but positively impact my life. And showing up is as necessary as watering your plants everyday. 23:12 Steping into the learning state. Building my way up to that actitud towards life: of learning. I just want it. I know it is a pearl. I have experienced it before. Yet, I don't have the habit anymore. I seem to be very lazy. JABITS

Luffy, the character in my profile photo, is yellow stage. With a necessary red application due to the context he is in (pirates), but never going to it's extremes. At least not in the first season. I like how most of the characters are very congruent with what they say andt act inside the One Piece world. Mostly from a very selfish position though.

The LP course has valuable information aiming to help people in situations like you. You do whatever you want with it. In fact it makes you very practical with life. Not only practical but the spiritual component aswell. It makes clear from the begining that fear is a component of the equation and so it gives you tools to conquer it. A lot of material that you don't need to swallow everything at once (you can't). Just with proper integration and patience. There is growth if you give a piece of your time to it.

Have you read the various books?

A nice example of an anime character living his LP. Love it.

P.S: Feel free to interact in the thread if you want to. 4 pm: Lp Construction. So far it's going pretty well. I have fixed my sleep and my diet. Got the suplements and nootropics I wanted, to enhance the LP construction. They are working well, and i am not even taking them daily. Just in the trying fase. Ah, and also i am doing intermitent fasting, starting at 10 am with a breakfast, and finishing at 6pm. I am bulding my kitchen so I can be more organized and independent with the food I eat. I also established a solid exercise routine and, in paralel, I have crafted calistenics rings out of wood. Now I have to build the metal bar to put it in the wall. Waiting the belt strap to arrive also. Doing cold showers as well. Currently in the day 3. Building my way to the extreme cold. My skinny body can't handle full cold yet. Working in these habits is crucial to keep moving foward in this process of setting my LP. The primal foundation. I am working in a musical project with a friend, where we have established the intention to get better. The intention to work as much as a professional. There is no other secret than to add hours and hours in a practice that is refined day by day. Yes, I am reading "The art of war". It resonates with me. But this project is a side project that we do 2 times per week. What I need to focus on now is to start making small bets. Tiny musical project that I work on everyday. Probably gonna start with just 30-60 minutes a day just to build the inertia. It seems that I am going perfect, but I have my personal attachments as well. So I am trying accomplish all of this by supplanting old bad habits with new good ones. 7:41 pm: Yesterday I met with 2 fellow musicians to play some shit. It was inspiring. Not only musicaly, but socially too.

He actually launched the video today in youtube

Starting with this gem