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11 January 2022 Hours sat: 2 Cumulative hours: 9 Zen Parable A tough, brawny samurai once approached a Zen master who was deep in meditation. Impatient and discourteous, the samurai demanded in his husky voice so accustomed to forceful yelling and obediance, “Tell me the nature of heaven and hell.” The Zen master opened his eyes, looked the samurai in the face, and replied with a certain scorn, “Why should I answer to a shabby, disgusting, despondent slob like you? A worm like you, do you think I should tell you anything? I can’t stand you. Get out of my sight. I have no time for silly questions.” The samurai could not bear these insults. Consumed by rage, he drew his sword and raised it to sever the master’s head at once. Looking straight into the samurai’s eyes, the Zen master tenderly declared, “That’s hell.” The samurai froze. He immediately understood that anger had him in its grip. His mind had just created his own hell—one filled with resentment, hatred, self-defense, and fury. He realized that he was so deep in his torment that he was ready to kill somebody. The samurai’s eyes filled with tears. Setting his sword aside, he put his palms together and obsequiously bowed in gratitude for this insight. The Zen master gently acknowledged with a delicate smile, “And that’s heaven.”

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My results from 2 tests taken a few months apart: https://bigfive-test.com/result/607003c8bf70640009116dd6 https://bigfive-test.com/result/614eb26c10887400087b8ab5 Third one taken today: https://bigfive-test.com/result/61c7ec0e0fe7340008823d16 I'd say my biggest problem is my agreeableness. I'm getting more conscious of saying 'no' to people when I really ought to, and listening in to my own authentic desires for myself. Trying to please everyone just ends up making me angry, bitter and resentful as I get walked all over.

If its really bad you might want to consider an elemental diet. These are used to treat people with SIBO, but also for people who are unable to digest food properly in medical emergencies. A carnivore diet also works as an elimination diet, but can't be done long term.

Taking a hiatus from this place for the holidays. Have a good one everybody! Try not to behave yourselves too much.

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In a perfect world, you would be right but it's hard to get modern women to relax out here in the wild. Every little crack, squeak, howl and roar sends them into a frenzy of defensive aggression or withdrawal. You can barely have a sensible conversation with most of them let alone get down to business. The same is true for many yung bloodz that swing this way hoping to learn something.

I don't know man. If I'm going to go to the trouble of leaving my house I may as well feed two birds with one scone, you know what I'm saying?

Tell her you love her.

Good luck out there. I'm going to win deadman mode without throwing a single punch.

Your expression of empathy is improving. Well done, I'm very proud of you.

I had a false positive cancer diagnosis when I was younger and I have some trauma around that whole experience as well. When I go for yearly checkups I remind myself that death is a gift and my anxiety about it drops away. The body is just a makeshift shelter from eternity and infinity.

oh, Cal Newports stuff is quite good for time management, organization and deep work related stuff. https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/

darknet diaries is a fun time https://darknetdiaries.com/ also, bump ... I'd like some more recommendations.

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0:00 Intro The last two videos covered different kinds of inputs into our knowledge management system, books and media more broadly. This video looks at the notes and ideas vault which is designed for capturing our own ideas, thoughts and inspirations. It's possible a piece of media could spark a thought that you might find valuable later and you'd enter it here. If the thought came up during your consumption of a video/article that you thought was worth capturing then you'd ideally put that thought into the capture of that video/article. If you're working in a team, this is where everyone would enter their thoughts and ideas The design of this aims to enable quick and easy capture of ideas and other parts of the system that we'll cover in the next 2 videos are about how to extract and have the information that we capture in this vault resurface at the right time and place. This largely happens in the Knowledge Lab, but in other instances like team profiles. Firstly we'll cover how to set up the notes and ideas vault and then how to set up quick capture mechanisms in the right contextual locations so when notes and ideas come to you, they can be entered quickly and efficiently. 3:06 Database Setup 2:35 Looking at the command centre we enter the mind expansion dashboard The past 2 videos covered The Library, Media Vault and The Academy which is where we capture books, media and course information respectively. Today we are looking at the Notes & Ideas database which lives in the Vaults section of the PPV organizational structure. This is a particularly interesting vault for the capture of our own thoughts and ideas or ideas from media that we might not want to capture entirely. The notes and ideas you create will be given a title and elaborated upon in the workspace 3:50 One of the best things about Notion is the capability of the workspace inside the note when compared to other apps You can capture anything from quick thoughts to paragraphs, tables, organization of data etc. Keeping Notes Narrow in Scope The idea of the notes contained within this database is that they're individual, self-contained nuggets These are not fully-fledged explorations of broad ideas, they are tightly confined in scope The idea is to have all these pieces attach to bigger ideas in the Knowledge Lab or potential sources of information Sources of information will typically only be linked if that source was the inspiration for the idea One note could be linked to several knowledge lab topics (through a relational link), each entry in the Knowledge lab is a broad topic that you build up from many different sources. As you're thinking about notes, keep them narrow in scope and modular, even if some notes are similar. When creating a new note we will out the properties 6:35S Status: Active The default status for new notes, there is an Archived option for when things are no longer relevant. 7:10 Enabling Filtered Views Filtered by active status If you're working in a team it's important to have notes filtered by Contains "Me", not your full name option. "me" means that anyone who is logged in and viewing this database will have new notes assigned to their name 8:00 If you're using your own solo system you don't need this, or the created by property The category property could be useful for both individuals and teams. In the team implementation, each category would be a department e.g. Sales, Marketing, HR, Admin A view can then be created for each category for the entire team to see as they go in This category setting allows you to have dashboards elsewhere where only the relevant notes and ideas for that section are being seen. Sort is typically done by last edited, but the creation date is also useful Filtered is by active and within a week or so 12:25 Quick Entry Setup There are 2 important aspects to a notes and ideas database, one being quick and easy input and the other is that it resurfaces at the right time and place. The latter will be explored in the coming videos. To establish quick entry we have a point in the mind expansion dashboard. This dashboard is set as one of the favourites There is also a quick entry point on the command centre 13:20 Toggle for the notes and ideas inbox Another one is in the Action Zone 14:30 Toggle for the notes and idea inbox Sort and filter 16:20 This works really well on mobile 17:04 Closing Thoughts What's really interesting is how we make these quickly entered notes and ideas resurface at the right time and place contextually. In most cases, this is done in the knowledge lab Sometimes you want the to resurface in the context of teams Notes and ideas are all about quick entry and capture, and then availability later on which is what this system hopes to achieve.

0:00 Intro This episode continues the exploration of the knowledge management section. This module can stand on its own or plug into the entire LOS. It has a systems thinking approach to capturing, processing, and formatting knowledge that's easy for us to use in our projects, tasks, habits, creating content, thinking, awareness and understanding in various contexts. The overview of the knowledge management system covered the series of databases called vaults within the PPV organizational structure. The previous video covered the book vault in-depth, this video covers the media vault in depth. The media vault is where we capture all other forms of media. Articles, newsletters, blogs magazines, podcasts, videos, and any kind of multimedia presentations It collects all of them and organizes and sorts so that views can be created for each individual type if needed. We will also briefly touch on the Training Vault This is for courses and training programs you might take, it's structurally different in terms of fields and databases, which is why it's separate from the media vault. You could merge it but this can create a lot of redundant fields and properties. We will look at how we capture and input information into the media vault then how we organize it and make the information we capture there available widely to other parts of the system. 2:40 On the mind expansion dashboard we are continuing our exploration of the knowledge sources midsection, specifically the media vault and the Academy. Both of which are in the Vaults section of the PPV organizational structure. After the Vaults section is complete there will be a video covering the high-level organizational structure of the PPV system and how it's used organizationally and conceptually to frame and guide the design of the entire system. 3:50 Training/Course Vault Courses can be incredible if you find good ones, but it's important not to go through them on autopilot and deliberately extract as much information as you can from it while you're focused on it so that later you can quickly and easily scan and review what you went through to pull out the most valuable elements. A good set of notes from a course can be really helpful for someone who didn't put in the time or the effort to do it. Notes allow you to do spaced repetition on the high-quality information allowing you to internalize it and learn it and really understand it. When you need to review it for something relevant later on, it's easily accessible in a very digestible form. Courses are lined up via status 6:05 When you sit down to do a course you have everything you've ever considered as interesting available and sorted ready to make a choice. Completed courses will have extensive notes inside of them with added media such as clippings, slides, diagrams mixed with other notes. In many ways, the information can become more valuable than the original course because you've digested and prioritized what resonated with you what was most relevant for your objectives and you've extracted the highlights that you can easily skim to remind yourself. We can apply the same hierarchical highlighting to these notes as discussed in the book notes area. Within courses, you can create extensive organizational structures for the different weeks and segments of the course. For large courses with an extraordinary amount of information covering a lot of different topics relevant to the focus of the course, you can create a whole dashboard of subpages and databases within the course workspace (each record in the database) so that it's extremely organized. If you wanted to go into section 4 of module B in an 8-week course, you can very quickly and easily access it. It's recommended that when you take a large course that you spend some time laying out an organizational structure to capture everything you can. Shorter courses can be covered the same way you cover books. You can change the way you do things depending on the scope and depth of the course. 9:19 Media Vault DB Structure This is something that everyone should be implementing in one way or another because we are all encountering a flood of information online. If you are not documenting and capturing it, it floats in and fades away. The time spent consuming it is usually just wasted. If you don't make an effort to read deliberately and capture information so it's accessible later, you miss so much of what you engage with and you waste so much time and mental energy. 10:06 Status board view Organized by status tags: Maybe later To Do On It Now Just Saving Completed Archive Master table view 10:35 Organized sorting primarily by status and secondarily by priority and thirdly by future value (for completed articles). August has taken to using Notion as his read later app over Pocket and Instapaper as he found it was really difficult to highlight and get the highlights to transfer in a smooth automated way. The versions of pocket and instapaper that allow you to do extensive highlighting and notetaking are expensive. Notion gives you the ability to do all your 'read later' capture in one place along with all it's other capabilities. No need to worry about transfers and movement between apps. Beyond what Pocket and Instapaper can do, Notion allows you to structure a heirarchy and priority level of what you're going to read in what order using a status On it now What you're presently engaged with To do Something you intend to do but definitely want to do Maybe later Something you want to get to if you have a chance Completed Just Saving Capturing it, not going to read but want it around just in case Generally this is the only thing August uses Evernote for He doesn't like cluttering the Notion database with an endless flood of maybe's kinda sorta probably nots. Things are only brought in to Notion if its something relevant to a project or habits, goals, pillars, or it's something that he's just curious about and engaged with so it will be relevant to some interest or activity. Evernote is August's endless, bottomless shoebox. Everything in Notion is more curated and has some specific value. Archive For things that have been completed, but don't have any intended use in the future. Sharing Used for articles that have been refined/modified and shared commonly, for example with consulting clients. Secondary sorting by priority 15:10 Completed items have a future value rank and are sorted secondarily by it. It doesn't necessarily mean the article is high quality, it means that you are likely to find value in it in the future. Tags for media type Articles Podcast Video 17:30 Hierarchical Highlighting Within articles, as your read them you want to highlight and take good notes. The Notion web clipper will capture the title, link and 95% of the time it will capture the whole article. The article will usually be nicely formatted allowing you to quickly make a TOC by using '/toc' The hierarchical highlighting that is done is the same as in the book vault A color gradient of Yellow, Orange, Red, and Pink Yellow is used for mildly interesting highlights Orange is the default color Red and Pink are used for important items This gives you various levels of review options depending on how quickly you want to go through the content later. You can add notes using the comment feature This becomes valuable when discussing things with a team using the '@' function. 20:35 You can apply a callout to make notes more visible This hierarchy of notation is so much better than Ever note, it gives so much more nuance. This is one of the reasons Notion is so good to use as a life operating system. Systems that are designed for specific platforms can leverage them and function so much better overall. If you highlight all the articles you read, which can be done very quickly especially if you are doing your read later in Notion itself it's an incredibly valuable resource to return to. You want to have views for 'to-do' and a view for 'completed' articles. 23:05 Capture with the Web Clipper Have the chrome extension for Notion installed Select the vault you wish to save it to You can immediately open it in Notion online which is just as good as Notion on desktop, unlike Evernote. Add a '/toc' Add tags If it pertains to a knowledge lab item, link to it. The web clipper works very well for videos as well 25:50 Enter fields and take notes on the video as you watch it. 28:40 Closing By capturing and organizing information properly in a consistent systematic way, it becomes a very valuable resource to draw on when we put it into the next level of absorption and refinement in the Knowledge lab. The next video covers the knowledge lab.