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WE NEED MORE ENGAGED FATHERS!

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." - Simon Sinek

Bout fiddy consecutive days of lifting, even with really bad covid over the last week. gtg static weight training, minimum 1 set of each of the rep ranges listed, with no upper limit, so some days I did a lot. Consistency, form, and simplicity are the only goals. Current PB for icebaths is 21 minutes, 37 seconds

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Staring at Cho Greedy Ostentatious Awesome Troubled Hedonic Erratic Awesome Rotting To be continued

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Sleeping Beauty

Heart rate during 4 rounds of breathing, followed immediately by a 5-minute ice bath. I have since done 2 more. Even though the water is much colder than a cold shower, the experience is much more enjoyable in my opinion. Under a shower, the cold just hits you randomly and there is the constant possibility to make minor movements to limit your exposure. Jumping into a plunge just swallows you whole, clean and simple. It's awesome. I'm now implementing this into my strength and agility routines before exercising, with the simple goal of getting in every day after doing the breathwork with visualizations/affirmations. I am taking an ''atomic habits'' approach; setting the bar extremely low, with consistency being the only objective. I already feel acute improvements in mood, energy, outlook, and sleep quality. It will be interesting to see what the benefits, and drawbacks are long term. And I'll experiment with different times and temperatures as the research is a bit fuzzy around all that. The paper that Huberman cites about dopamine increase found that dopamine levels only start to rise after a period of 20min in 14C water, for example. Also, homie here has good info on setting a chest freezer plunge up right.

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Don't buy this flamethrower. Don't buy this stock.

DOCKING Now combining Wim Hoff breathwork, Stutz's reversal of desire, and Ubuntu with immediate cold exposure to retrain my neurology to move into discomfort and become addicted to the process.

I impulse-bought a freezer and sealed it today. The bodies will stay fresher for longer. Just gotta wait for my home brew temperature controller to arrive before things get wild.

@Alex M Interesting. I know that psychedelics have been shown to increase a person's openness to experience (in the big 5 personality model) by one standard deviation a year after a 'mystical experience' and that openness is the trait most closely correlated with left-leaning political outlooks. I'm currently learning all of the political ideologies to get a general sense of what they're about and where they loosely sit on this axis at the moment. I find myself humming and haaing over the good points in many of them. I want to be all the ideologies somewhat, but I have to agree with where I land as a result of the test overall so far.

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Apparently, I'm marginally more right-wing than Ghandi and Mandella. My results on this test haven't shifted much over the last 5 years. I wonder if it's true that people become more conservative as they age. Algorithmically it makes sense that older people would want things to stay more of the same as they settle into the exploit portion of an explore/exploit trade-off. Perhaps a shifting Overton window also affects how people land relative to where they started as they age. Perhaps a bit of both.

I am become death

Spring A youthful monarch's coronary grace Bestows warm light upon a city's face Homes steadfast, enduring as a mule's embrace The people's hearts pulse in rhythmic pace To the cadence of drums, a bountiful feast Their spirits alight, their joys increased Savoring divine love's sweet ambrosia, so tenderly released Amongst the birds and bees, nature's harmonious masterpiece

Nursing Placement In age-worn halls, a novice strides, Life's fragile dance, its ebb and tides, Pain, mess, and morphine met with grit, In old eyes, he finds life's orbit. With steady hands, he tends the frail, Resilient, firm, his care unveiled, With colleagues, bonds of strength are fused, United, they face storms, unbruised. Wrinkled hands, sunken cheeks expose, The depth that suffering juxtapose, Through challenges, his spirit thrives, In twilight's home, life's truth revives. Transformed, he bears the lessons learned, Through life's vast maze, connections earned, In kinship, solace, strength combined, He grasps the threads of life, entwined.

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The post reminded me of a clip from this podcast where Chris and Alex discuss the three most common traits of highly successful people, and prompted some interesting questions for me. The three traits were: superiority complex massive insecurity impulse control i.e. Narcissists/Cluster B-type people who can sit on their hands. It’s interesting to me that we have developed a framework for motivation based on the assumption that people need to run toward something they want while also running away from something they fear. How true is that? How much is that a generalization? Is it possible to find ‘motivation’ or discipline in other ways, or can we conceptualize it differently? How silly is the comparison between objective measures of ‘success’ when internally people value very different things, as they discuss what people optimize for? Their discussion of the tennis player who was categorized at 10 years old as ‘highly likely to be successful’ based on 2 metrics was interesting. Do ultra-wealthy/successful people become that way because they are already broken early? Or do those traits develop as they move into higher and higher echelons of society/social circles where those traits are more normalized? Is there a correlation between the two? When you’re lower down on the economic ladder do you become more empathic as a survival function? i.e. Does low SES cause higher empathy or does higher empathy cause lower SES, does lower empathy cause higher SES, or does higher SES cause lower empathy? Taking some of these questions into account and the answers we may develop, is it possible for someone who is ‘awake’, self-aware, and self-loving (In a genuine rather than pathological sense) to be motivated enough to push themselves up into these pathological spheres and work to remedy them? How likely are the chances of success in such an endeavor? How strong are the opportunities for self-deception? To me, it seems like a quantum leap in understanding human behavior would need to be made, with the development of psychological weapons equivalent to nuclear bombs to be deployed for there to even be a chance of ‘success’. OR very subtle, sneaky tools to push on high leverage points of systems, within systems within systems. Whether you’re working with a hippie starving artist who is too good for their own good or an eccentric billionaire who is too broken for everyone else's good.

I am going to begin by covering/reviewing each of the micro and macronutrients, what they are, what they do in the body, as well as some common sources for each. I'll go through them one by one, over time. After that, I might delve into stimulants (e.g. caffeine), antioxidants, heavy metals, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, artificial flavors, etc., and then describe various diets, food preparation techniques, bioavailability, glycaemic index (GI), glycaemic load (GL), cholesterols and other such concepts and areas of interest. First things first. MACRONUTRIENTS: Carbohydrates: Simple carbohydrates Monosaccharides (e.g. glucose, fructose) Disaccharides (e.g. sucrose, lactose) Complex carbohydrates Starches (e.g. corn, potatoes, grains) Fibers (e.g. cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) Fiber Soluble fiber Insoluble fiber Proteins: Complete proteins Animal sources (e.g. meat, fish, poultry, dairy) Soy products Incomplete proteins Legumes (e.g. beans, lentils, peas) Grains (e.g. rice, wheat, oats) Nuts and seeds Complementary proteins Grains and legumes Nuts or seeds and legumes Fats: Saturated fats Animal fats (e.g. butter, lard) Tropical oils (e.g. coconut oil, palm oil) Unsaturated fats Monounsaturated fats (e.g. olive oil, avocados) Polyunsaturated fats (e.g. omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids found in fish, nuts, and seeds) Trans fats Naturally occurring trans fats (e.g. in dairy and meat products) Artificial trans fats (e.g. in many processed foods) MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamins Fat-soluble vitamins: Vitamin A Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K Water-soluble vitamins: Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) Vitamin B3 (Niacin) Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Vitamin B7 (Biotin) Vitamin B9 (Folate) Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Vitamin C Minerals Major minerals: Calcium Chloride Magnesium Phosphorus Potassium Sodium Sulfur Trace minerals: Chromium Copper Fluoride Iodine Iron Manganese Molybdenum Selenium Zinc Also, Water!

I did 10 pushups today.

Practicing Ubuntu, coupled with 'Jeopardy' from Phil Stutz's book the tools to connect with Willpower: Practicing 'The reversal of desire', from the same book, coupled with my own 30-minute version of tummo breathing to connect with the force of forward motion and positively associate taking action:

Spirit Angler

THAR SHE BLOWS!