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0:00 Intro Systems thinking will magnify your ability to create, solve problems and contribute more to any effort. It will enable you to do just about any complex work better and will empower you to build a LOS for yourself. Crucially, systems thinking enables you to see causal relationships that others are missing and you will bring new ideas and powerful insights to any discussion. This video is an introduction, intended to provide a working understanding of systems thinking. The next video will focus on applying it more specifically to designing a productivity system for personal and small business use. Notion is the best software August has ever seen for non-coders to design a personal life enhancement system and to streamline small business operations, but using Notion without a strong sense of systems thinking will limit how far you can take the platform. 1:00 What is Systems Thinking Systems thinking is a holistic approach to looking at the world that is often in direct contrast to the standard way people tend to look at issues. It's not the way we are taught in school or at work, it's an unconventional thought process. Systems thinking starts with the recognition that all systems are part of larger systems and every system is defined by its function in the larger system. A car is not defined by its components (engine, tyres, doors, seats etc.) but by what it does within the larger transportation system. i.e. it gets you from point A to point B with a certain speed, comfort level, carrying capacity etc. A car is compared with other systems (bus, train, aeroplane) by how they each fit into the larger transportation system. A system divided into its component parts cannot function; its worthwhile properties (functions) derive from the interactions of its parts Analytical or deconstructionist thinking is the more common approach in our society. In analytical thinking, you study the various component parts once you know each you integrate them into an understanding of how the whole works If you apply analytics (the study of parts) to a system, the system loses its essential properties and so do its parts. You lose your understanding of its function and how it fits into a larger system. Broken into parts the thing of interest in your system does not exist, the only way to understand a thing of any complexity is to look at it in its entirety and see how it functions within the greater systems. Systems thinking is a way of looking at a series of ecosystems orbiting and interacting with one another over time. With this approach, you look for patterns, rather than identifying individual elements. When you see the world this way, endless new insights reveal themselves and you can better design ways in which you interact with the world. You'll likely find similar repeating patterns at various detail levels within the system. Both micro and macro and across disciplines; essentially fractal patterns. 3:14 Traditional Thinking To clarify how rare systems thinking is in modern society we'll cover the standard approaches to problem-solving. The more common approaches go by terms such as linear thinking, analytical thinking, scientific thinking or mechanical thinking; the unifying element among them is the application of a set of simplifying assumptions to make the issue more manageable. These reductionist approaches break everything down into parts and then extrapolate out to an understanding of the whole presuming that the functionality is the sum of the parts. These simplifying assumptions often poorly model the world leaving us with the same old obvious explanations, starting with limited frameworks, we end up with limited solutions. The value of systems thinking is that it reveals properties and causal relationships in systems that do not exist in their components alone. It looks at the qualities of the fully-functioning system beyond the sum of its parts. 4:10 Emergence The phenomenon of new qualities forming beyond the core properties or parts is called emergence. Emergence occurs when an entity is determined to have properties its parts do not have on their own these properties emerge only when the parts interact within a wider whole. Consciousness and life itself are examples of emergence but it happens at all levels, big and small, profound and mundane. Water is made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms, but neither of these components have the quality of wetness. Wetness emerges only when the two parts interact as a whole. The ability to recognize emergence is a cornerstone element of systems thinking. Ultimately the ability to design for emergence is a superpower that will be explored in this series. Merely recognising it provides powerful insights and a starting place to better understand essential causal relationships. This is how systems thinking helps us see what others are missing and enables us to contribute important ideas to any conversation. 5:18 6 Steps To Do Systems Thinking 1. Define the inputs, outputs and movements: Determine what is moving around inside the system, what's entering from outside of it and ultimately exiting it. What are the entry and exit points? What path do they take, how quickly do they move, is that pace steady or inconsistent? Are there bottlenecks? What happens to the build-up at the bottlenecks? 2. Distinguish linear from circular: Evaluate what functions in the system are linear and what parts of the process are circular You'll find the fundamental parts of systems tend to be circular. This part helps you weed out a lot of the linear elements that are not essential and helps you determine what are the critical parts of the system. It will also help you identify patterns. 3. Look for patterns: Patterns exist all throughout systems and are central to their function. Systems facilitate and perpetuate patterns of activity and behaviour. Define the patterns, describe them, visualize them, write them down, map them out. Flowcharts are a great tool for this. Whimsical and mural(?) Are Augusts favourite flowchart tools. Once you notice a pattern in one area of a system, look for echoes of it in other areas of the system and related systems. Look for it in both small and large clusters of participating elements. Zoom out to a wider perspective and then zoom in tighter. Looking for the same pattern to repeat itself at varying levels These patterns are fractals and you will find them everywhere 4. Find the feedback loops: Can you see feedback loops in the system's patterns? A pattern is a repeating design of some sort it could be over space or time or both A feedback loop is a self magnifying or self-diminishing pattern over time with each iteration is either increasing or decreasing in magnitude, perpetually and systematically. The results of the previous cycle pour greater resources and momentum into the beginning of the next cycle Amazons famous flywheel business model is a feedback loop Anything with exponential growth has a feedback loop at work (it can work in reverse too) Once you see feedback loops you will see causality everything has cause and effect and these are typically buried inside patterns and feedback loops 5. Understand the balancing properties: Any system that sustains itself over a long duration will have balancing properties that will prevent the feedback loops and anomalies from pressuring its boundaries. Balancing properties help to maintain equilibrium Ask what guardrails, constraints or counter-forces serve to keep things on track and how surprises are dealt with Without balancing elements a system will likely be short-lived; look for these countermeasures in a system to evaluate its sustainability 6. Study your systems interaction with other systems: All systems are part of larger systems and every system is defined by its function within a larger system Ask what larger systems the system you are studying is a part of Define the inputs, outputs and movements of the larger system Look for patterns in the bigger system Find feedback loops Understand the balancing properties Study its interaction with yet larger systems and apply the process again

0:00 Intro August Bradley has been optimizing businesses for decades and has never seen a platform as comprehensive and capable as Notion for productivity. Power comes from its flexibility, accessibility on top of its database functionality as part of the No-code software movement that is taking control of business operations. You can custom develop functionality to the point of creating your own applications. 0:55 No-Code Software Development These platforms are modular and endlessly customizable without the user writing a single line of code. The catch is they require a high degree of systems thinking which is not the way most people approach the world. Following videos will briefly cover Systems thinking and Systems thinking for Notion and personal productivity. 2:00 How Notion is Different When implemented properly you will be able to work with enhanced organization, clarity and focus serving as the backbone for small businesses, family, creative pursuits and side hustles as well as being an integrated single-source hub for all these parts of your life together. Notion cross-references shared data, tasks, calendar events, resources, team notes and any other digital asset. Eliminates the redundancy of maintaining overlapping information across different locations. All this matters because we don't rise to the highest level of ourselves that we can imagine, we fall to the level of our systems. If you want to operate at a higher level you need higher standards and better systems with greater structural integrity to hold you up. Structural integrity is a matter of system design. Doing more and performing at higher levels increases your structural load. Notion provides that integrity when shaped with the right methods and processes. Many of us use multiple task, knowledge and time management apps separately, but these functions are enhanced when they're all combined into one system and can interact with each other. It can be easier and more fun to learn Notion with an already functional system that you can customize as you see fit along the way. 4:14 This Notion Productivity Series This series will cover Augusts' personal system designed to be a LOS. This platform has boosted the speed of implementation and transparency across goals, project information and action. 5:12 Notion Evolution While Notion still has its limitations, in the aggregate it is more powerful than anything August has seen. What Notion saves you in time overall dwarfs the extra seconds it can sometimes take to open. Notion has allowed August to see the forest and the trees together with regards to goal alignment from an annual to a daily level. 5:54 My Notion Experiences You will need to go through a process of trial and error, exerting time and effort up front, but this process will force you to think about how you want to work and will reveal so much about what makes you MOST effective. You must step back and study your workflow, review your systems and think about how they can be enhanced. Learning the tool forces you to make your life and business BETTER. August has a roadmap laid out in this series to introduce the power of Notion and the system he has taught to business owners to enhance their lives and companies.

0:00 Intro PPV Intro What Pillars Pipelines and Vaults actually mean and how they relate to each other Diagram showing how they relate and how to get into the system for beginners System Design Systems thinking is the ability to look comprehensively at how various systems interact with each other and the larger systems they are a part of. When you take a holistic view you can see how properties emerge or arise from the interplay amongst the system that doesn't exist in individual components. This is what makes having a comprehensive LOS in notion so powerful. When you have a comprehensively integrated system-level approach to structuring your life, new capabilities and insights emerge, faster ways of doing things arise, knowledge is present when needed. All of these pieces complement each other when they're interconnected as opposed to when they are managed separately and each piece was fragmented. The first few videos in this series give an intro and overview of what systems thinking is and how we are applying it with Notion Top-Level Dashboards 2:46 3 Objectives of PPV System 1. Focus So when we sit down to do the work we have the ability to focus on what matters Difficult to achieve but a well-designed system can help to do this 2. Alignment We want the things we do day by day and hour by hour to be directly aligned with our high-level aspirations. It's more important to do the right things inefficiently than the wrong things efficiently. Alignment ensures that we are doing the right things every day to move our lives forward and become the people we want to be in work, family, mental clarity, creativity and creative output. It's so easy to make a list of goals or aspirations and then be pulled away from them by life each day as we become reactive. 3. Knowledge Resurfacing at the right time and place. Capturing the information in this fire hose of media we live in and storing it in a very safe and organized and accessible way. Aggregates them into topic categories where the best thinking, ideas into the knowledge vault. This information arises automatically at the right time and place because the system knows what, when and where it matters. 5:16 Structural Design of PPV System 5:17 [image] This shows the relationships between Pillars, Pipelines and Vaults Each Cylinder is a separate Database in the System Pipelines: Pipelines describe the action in our life. Things that go through a process flow with various stages of progress and then ultimately completion. This would relate to a system such as GTD (Getting things done) and covers the scope of it. Databases include: Action Items (tasks) Projects Goal Outcomes Value Goals Vaults: Vaults is about knowledge management either personal or business context covering the scope of something like Para? Or building a second brain Databases include: Tools & Skills Notes & Ideas Courses & Training Media Knowledge The system organizes information that we deem valuable enough to capture and makes it very accessible. Pillars: Have a different organizational structure to pipelines and vaults. They are horizontal organizational categories across all pipelines and vaults. They break your life into segments such that everything you do will fall into one of these segments, with the goal of simply categorising the spectrum of your life. Categories include: Growth Health and fitness Mental Clarity Home Life Family Friends Social Life Personal Finances Business Marketing Sales Product Design Product Development Customer Operations Cycles: The one element outside of the system is the reviews because they are time-based and are not organized by pillars. Periodic review cycles: Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annual Ensures things are on track and observes where shortcomings are to pull things back in line. This is a very important balancing process to keep the system on track and going in the right direction so we don’t drift away from our goals and aspirations. Daily tracking tracks the most important habits and routines that we are improving and implementing into our lives. What we track we can improve. The simple act of observing them dramatically increases the odds of them progressing forward. 10:24 Top Level Dashboards: The three mega dashboards of the system are the command centre, the action zone and the alignment zone. These dashboards grant a small look into the window of the system. 10:20 Command Centre Dashboard Intro 10:25 [image] Command Centre: Top-level Dashboard for the entire system Focus and alignment are the goals Action Zone All about FOCUS Daily view of what we are doing hour to hour Alignment Zone Ensures the things we are doing day to day are aligned with our high-level aspirations the project, goal, and guiding principle levels. If you can do this then the things that you need to get done will happen because you will steadily be moving forward in the direction you have designed for yourself. Three pillar categories Growth, Home/Life, Business Within each of these groupings, we can see the individual pillars Growth: Health and fitness Mental Clarity | Spirituality Mind Expansion | Learning Home/Life: Family Home & Household Personal Admin & Finance Business: Biz Team & Admin Client Operations Content Creation Product Development You can create whatever pillars are relevant to you. Every single one of these is a dashboard and will link you to a sub-dashboard into that section of your life with everything organised in a clear and transparent way that will bring insight into what is moving forward and what isn't. All of the knowledge, wisdom, ideas and insight that you've captured from other sources will also resurface into each of these categories. Databases: Pillars Pipelines Vaults Cycles and Reviews 13:53 Alignment Zone Dashboard Intro 13:58 [image] Alignment zone is how we align our high-level aspirations with our daily & hourly actions Start with our Guiding Principles: Define what is meaningful in life, what we value We define our Pillars The categorizations we've talked about as well as pillar support which are the things that help us to implement and achieve what matters within each pillar Section where we design habits & routines, Knowledge Vault for Pillars, Mindset, Health & Fitness We then set our Goals Our high-level goals and then the measurable, quantifiable steps towards accomplishing those goals in Goal Outcomes We then break our goal outcomes into individual Projects (or we define habits & Routines) that will help us achieve them Finally the projects breakdown into tasks (Action Items) 15:24 Action Zone Dashboard Intro 15:26 [image] This is for running our lives day to day. Today Toggle: To-Do List for the day Everything is organized by Do Date (spread out across the calendar below) and the priority. Each day has its own task list defined by the Do Dates. Having tasks organized by each day allows us to have a series of short achievable task lists to do each day rather than a never-ending burden of To-Do's. The night before you set the priority list for the current day. Active Projects: Projects we have defined as active for this time period laid out here. Within each project, we can see all the tasks in order that we need to achieve. We turn a few of them on active and the rest are queued up to be addressed in the future. Goal Outcomes: Contains all Projects. 17:42 Closing Thoughts There's lots of nuance, empowering features and interconnectivity built-in. Information is automated to bring clarity and alert you when you're going off track. Allows you to focus only on the things that matter now, with only the information you need to do the things you're focused on.

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Two weekends ago I spent some time getting some ranged practice in. I've decided to share more next weekend after I've gone through some stuff this week. I know, I know. I said it would be a secret, but I just can't help myself. THIS POOR GIRL DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE! Earlier this year I went through the LPC and summarized it for easy access to the information. These are all the videos with exercises and action steps for people who've got it. I've gone through each of them three times several months apart and I'm starting to get a clear direction out of it that feels authentic to me. I will be integrating the ranged training I just did with my results to these exercises this week using magic. I love it when the skills start to work together. 13 - Flow (18:54) 16 - Detachment From Outcome (21:25) 23 - Limiting Beliefs (15:53) 42 - Pass 01: Most Meaningful Things In Life (8:21) 43 - Pass 02: Tabula Rasa (7:41) 44 - Pass 03: Master Values List (6:47) 45 - Pass 04: Toxic Values (8:52) 46 - Pass 05: Value Definitions (7:56) 47 - Pass 06: Congruence Ratings (2:37) 48 - Pass 07: 10/10 (9:36) 49 - Pass 08: Prioritizing Values (8:25) 50 - Pass 09: Positive vs Negative Values (14:34) 51 - Pass 10: Negative Themes (10:53) 52 - Negative Values Release (51:57) 53 - Pass 11: Final Adjustments (4:25) 54 - Conclusion (13:09) 55 - Strengths Assessment Intro (5:34) 56 - Strengths Assessment Conclusion (16:03) 57 - Life Purpose Assessment (17:38) 58 - Life Purpose Exercise 1 (16:34) 59 - Life Purpose Exercise 2 (11:00) 60 - Life Purpose Exercise 3 (11:00) 61 - Life Purpose Exercise 4 (9:00) 62 - Life Purpose Exercise 5 (25:29) 63 - Life Purpose Exercise 6 (17:45) 64 - Life Purpose Exercise 7 (7:18) 66 - The Big Leap Process (25:42) 67 - Impact Statement (11:51) 69 - Bringing It All Together (9:56) 70 - The Me Sheet (11:00) 71 - Creating Your Vision (16:14) 72 - Vision Board (12:15) 74 - Dealing With Fear (22:14) 76 - Limiting Beliefs (29:35) 79 - Programming The Subconscious Mind (19:30) 84 - Building Powerful Habits (25:02) 85 - Eliminating Negative Habits (13:27) I think this movie was the first time I heard that "absence makes the heart grow fonder". Later in life, I came to appreciate this quote a lot more.

I'll throw out some random ideas that might be useful or thought-provoking. I don't think hustle culture is an ideology specifically used to control the masses in any nefarious sense. Controlling the cognitive map of the population is in the best interests of those in power of course, but 'hustling' in and of itself is a fundamental survival function. Everything in nature needs to strike a balance between energy consumed vs energy expended while increasing entropy. Think of highly organized species like ants or bees where each individual produces more value for the colony/hive than they consume. It's advantageous to their survival (both individually and collectively) because the net production of wealth across all the individuals is much higher than if each of them fended for themselves. This is the fundamental principle of the economics of scale. If we magnified this concept out to human beings we could say that having organizing ideologies is necessary for us to function as a somewhat unitary whole where each individual is producing more value to the group than they consume, but that being a positive thing overall as the net pool of value for all humans to draw from is larger. The fundamental issue is the distribution of that wealth. As stated earlier, there is a balance between energy consumed and energy expended that everyone is trying to strike. As individuals gain power and resources, it becomes easier for them to continue to do so. There have to be systemic checks and balances in place to prevent that from happening to any egregious degree. Even if there are systemic checks and balances in place, they will often work to have them removed. This generally happens quite gradually. It reminds me of this old video I watched aaaages ago when I was going through my doomer phase. The parts on the lifecycles of empires and things like wealth redistribution through fiat currencies are most relevant from memory. It also reminds me of that movie "In Time" where they played with the idea of time as the fundamental currency in a world where everyone lives forever, of course it's ultimately a fantasy that we could all live in a Eutopia-like that. Also, Justin Timberlake can act!? Wait, do you even know who Justin Timberlake is?, lol. No organism has ever been born onto Earth and had its fundamental survival needs given to it as a fundamental right. Think about the profundity of that. I'm not saying it couldn't be done and if it could be done I would be interested to see what would come of it. My intuition is that people would fundamentally become lazier and less productive overall (try to expend as little energy as possible)and this would impact the economy of scale to the point where the cost of living would naturally increase anyway (chicken sandwiches become more expensive) and people would have to start hustling again to make ends meet. I'm open to being wrong though. I do vaguely recall a TED talk or something I watched a long time ago where there was a basic income given to a small town in Canada with positive results? I'm not sure how well this would scale, but it's interesting. I might watch it again. This old CGP grey video also comes to mind I think the second rule is fundamentally about the importance of productivity on a collective level in democracies. Rulers need to manage the treasure, in democracies, the treasure is fundamentally the productivity of its citizens, things that improve productivity also improve the quality of life of citizens. Anything that makes productivity suffer also makes citizens and rulers suffer; leading to dictatorships where the rules are fundamentally the same but life is much shitter for everyone. Of course, spiral dynamics come into play and the self-organizing culture that emerges in this environment is what we would call stage orange with its virtues and vices. To move beyond it, it has to be transcended AND included, meaning aspects of hustle culture will always be with us as we evolve. To what degree, and which aspects? ... I'm not too sure what that would look like on a global scale. There is another issue that comes to mind which is one of leadership or managing people that work under you, say in a company or business context. As a boss, you generally have to work harder than everyone else to set the tone. If you show up later than everyone, put in less effort, than average and take home more pay than the people under you … it's only a matter of time before your business crumbles. Humans are value-seeking machines and are acutely aware of when their energy expenditure isn't matching their energy return relative to others. By extension, you will see leaders of successful organizations touting 'hard work' and the hustle culture and actively doing living it, because they NEED to for their businesses to survive. It reminds me of this clip I saw in the stage orange section, which was criticized for being illogical with regards to productivity. Of course, productivity doesn't scale linearly on an individual level, but in this instance, Elon is talking about productivity as a function of a company where it absolutely does scale non-linearly for the leader to work longer and harder as his math accurately represents in his numbers here. I think he has stated many many times that he doesn't recommend his lifestyle but that he lives it out of necessity. One of the issues with a gig economy is that we have become separated to such an extent that this becomes difficult to do. We're only meant to track the status and social milieu of about 150 people, not billions, so of course, it has become easier for wealth inequalities to emerge.

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Eat a large protein-rich breakfast at exactly the same time every day Releases hormones that begin to signal safety and security to your body Eating at exactly the same time each day helps to bring disrupted sleep cycles into rhythm Even if your sleep cycle is messed up, just get up force yourself to eat and go back to bed, it will pull into line slowly. Get 8 hours of high-quality sleep every day (Read: Why we sleep, Matthew Walker) REM sleep is crucial for emotional regulation/processing and mood stabilization. Alcohol, caffeine, and marijuana disrupt REM sleep and should be avoided at least 6 hours before your regular bedtime, preferably stopped altogether. Deep sleep and REM sleep are both cruicial for executive functioning, which you need to have in order to begin to make changes. If you are overweight or obese and you snore, consider seeing a sleep doctor to ensure you aren't suffering from sleep apnea. Sleeping well makes it easier to control urges to eat unhealthy food and makes it easier to exercise, making it easier to lose weight as well. Get some exercise each day Provides an avenue to 'vent' physiologically Releases endorphins that can become a healthier alternative to drugs and alcohol Improves your sleep quality (see above) Improves your appetite (see above) Stay off of social media and avoid online socializing This exacerbates loneliness and isolation which slowly put you into a chronic state of fight or flight, making anxiety worse. Get real-time, face-to-face interaction with human beings you know and trust. Avoid socializing online where there are very long delay periods between responses and there is relatively little contextual information such as vocal tone, inflection, body language, and there aren't cultural or language barriers to grapple with. Your hyper-vigilant, anxious mind will begin to project worst-case scenarios and traumatic experiences from the past into what is being said, or NOT said online, making things worse for yourself and everyone else. Just don't. Go outside and talk to a tree if you have to. Begin CBT techniques to start reprogramming your mind for strategies to adopt the next time you begin to feel an attack. Become very aware of your triggers Note down exactly what it is you fear might happen when you experience your triggers Break down those fears into smaller chunks that you can begin to develop coping strategies for Begin to VOLUNTARILY expose yourself to things that make you anxious or afraid or to very large challenges, counter-intuitively this reduces anxiety; walk the hero's path. You will not become less afraid, but you'll become braver and start to develop a memory bank of all the times you overcame a fear. It will begin to create a positive feedback loop, activating different neural pathways in the face of the same stimuli. David Goggins refers to this as his 'cookie jar' Learn regulatory breath exercises such as the Wim Hoff method, Tummo breathing, Box breathing etc. for when you are in the middle of an attack Learn relaxation breath exercises to supplement meditation and CBT A random assortment of videos on the subject.

99 Hitpoints So I was listening to my iPod shuffle which is a musical time capsule to my 10-14-year-old self and I found this old song. It's from The Notebook which weirdly was one of my favorite romance movies back then. I realized today that it literally came out the same year as Mean girls (which I have not seen to this day) but from what I can infer the main characters Regina George and Allie Hamilton are polar opposites. It probably would have been better for me to have watched the latter to form a more suitable foundation of my understanding of the female psyche, lol. Or perhaps both to develop a more holistic picture. Anyways, I remember having this HUUUUUUGE crush on a girl all throughout my early years of primary school. She won this poetry competition we had in the 4th grade by writing about the library. I can't remember how her poem went but I do remember her reading it aloud in front of the class and the line: "everywhere one looks, there are books books books!" At which point I lost consciousness like a fangirl groupie... After I came to, I spent the next year or so growing a pair and writing her an elaborate love poem. I asked my mom to help me get an envelope and stamps and to take me to a postbox to mail it to her because I knew her address as she happened to live right next door to my best friends place ... even though it was in the city of millions of people, my friend went to a different school which I had attended earlier, and I lived out in the countryside. I just remember going to his place for a sleepover and we were playing cricket in the backyard then daring each other to eat earthworms, which we were in the middle of doing when she appeared there for the first time. Coincidence!? I think not. Fast-forward, I mail her the poem. Spend about a week agonizing over her response and the possibility of rejection... bitch just ignored me for like 4 months then I found out she'd spent most of that time talking shit about me eating worms because my mom's cooking was so bad. Happily, I moved continents shortly thereafter. When the notebook came out I remember telling myself 'I'm going to find love like this.'

Birthday sex So, I've been reading up on birthday sex as a trope and delving into how I'd like to give and receive it. First of all, I'd like to say that I've never given or received birthday sex and I'm a bit self-conscious of peoples opinions towards my methodology and preferences. Like who the fuck does this guy think he is? No experience yet all of a sudden he's an expert? Urban dictionary defines it as follows: The main themes are pleasuring your partner and doing whatever the fuck they want for the duration of their birthday. It's currently the 22nd where I'm at, so I can jump into the first round. If I accidentally blow my load too soon I should be good to go again soon and still fulfil the requirements without disqualifying myself from being the best damn birthday fuck on the planet. Planning and foresight ✅ Ok, here goes. I have been known to shuffle like an absolute savage on occasion. Don't think just move baby girl.

I'm telling you they count for a lot and no institution or organization is going to teach you how to do this. Learning to handle your own shit, break down your issues and fix them makes you increasingly capable of handling other peoples shit. So much of the work environment is about that. Almost everyone has their own flavour of crazy and tragedy to handle "outside" of their professional lives, which inevitably bleeds into their professional lives. It is context-dependent of course. Career advice isn't universally applicable. Different jobs have different levels of responsibility, different work sectors have different work cultures, attract different demographics of people and have different expectations of employees/employers/procedures. It's more helpful to get clear about what YOU want and then work backwards from there as far as your expectations, time constraints and advice-seeking should go. Take advice from people who are already doing what you want to be doing. There isn't a normal because professions are different and they have different normals. You can start out somewhere and if you ask for more and get turned down then you have a data point to estimate your value. Nobody is going to pay you more than they have to or are able to and employers aren't usually walking around with a gun to everyone's head waiting for them to mess up and fire them. Also, sorry if you don't want me commenting on here. I'll remove them if you like. If you are underperforming in your role (relative to your compensation, the expectations of the working culture and the financial health of the organization) they will make it clear to you and give you an opportunity to improve, perhaps even multiple opportunities. Economically it's better for them to do that than go through the whole process of finding another person to fill the position and get them settled in (in most cases). It's especially true if you've just hired someone who is young and inexperienced ... like people understand that you don't know what tf you're doing and they'll course correct you a bit. Exceptions to this would be if a business starts struggling and has to lay people off quickly, or if you are in a high level, highly compensated role as things get increasingly cutthroat and people get increasingly shitty with regards to securing their slice of the pie.

I did the same, I suffered the same fears and doubts and I can happily tell you that your work hasn't been done in vain. "Soft skills", like the ones you are working on now are some of the most important in a professional environment because professional environments are filled with ... PEOPLE. Anyone with experience managing or leading people will quickly recognize you have them because being a leader/manager requires them. Increases in pay grade usually boils down to increases emotional labour, rather than industry-specific skill (although they are still important). You can also do a few things to pad your resume and make your prospective employers take notice without having to go down the standard route of getting internships, experience etc. For example, getting 'soft certificates' from places like Udemy, Coursera, Skillshare, Udacity, Lynda, Masterclass, Pluralsight, Codecademy etc. instantly makes you stand out because it shows initiative, self-direction, enthusiasm and the like, even though they aren't formal qualifications. Many of these things are cheap and don't take too much time to knock over. Also don't stress about falling behind too much. Obviously, you don't want to become a dropout but in reading the quality and consistency of your posts I can safely say that's unlikely to happen. Just keep rocking the INTJ lifestyle girl, you'll be fine. “Jack of all trades, master of none,” the saying goes. But it is culturally telling that we have chopped off the ending: “… but oftentimes better than master of one.” I also would recommend the book Algorithms to live by and paying attention to the 'explore/exploit' tradeoff chapter. Basically, when you are young it is strategically better for you to be fucking up and developing breadth and then settling into yourself as you age. Sure, it's probably a bit trickier as a woman and I can't give you advice about that, I'm not sure if you want a family and kids and a career (sorry if you've written about this and I just haven't read it.) Also, I don't think anyone ever truly 'gets there' if you know what I mean. Your problems simply change and what you stress about changes, embrace the stress because it's not going anywhere. You already have plans and options and strategic routes to take, it's a little scary when you haven't really stepped out on your own yet but you'll quickly find your feet and develop your confidence I'm sure. I hope this makes you feel a little bit better anyway.

I'll be online training agility on 80% of days. I have to work very long hours some days, and it's possible that my equipment could break down. From this point on, only death or severe injury can stop me from getting this cape and strutting my big dick energy around the grand exchange. My Strava app timezone was wrong and since my workouts aren't using GPS data the dates were wrong for my workouts. Hopefully, the issue is resolved now. We'll see what my exercise on Tuesday says. (Tomorrow I have a very long work day, unfortunately.)

@modmyth Happpy Birthday! I guess I was born before you, haha.

Ok, I can see the path towards the finish lines of some skills now. More than enough to work with for the next 6-12 months. 99 Agility - My first ever cape and the only one I achieved. I want it back. 99 Strength 99 Magic Murder Grindelwald with Dumby love. 99 Range Secret training but I will murder her from far away, no chance of survival.

Dropped MDMA with my bestie and listened to this album drop on my Bday three years ago. We both used to listen to them when they were still called The Jakes. YTG is always playing on my birthday now. My fav songs of their albums always change. Currently my fav on this one is superposition. Makes me think of org chem and physics and stuff. N-methyl-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)propan-2-amine: Molecular formula: C11H15NO2 Molecular weight: 193.2 Admittedly Oblivion is a close second, possibly could be favourite in the near future but that is subject to change at a moments notice.

You have a great natural voice. Please do Amazing Grace next! Are there any choirs in your area? It's a great way to learn to sing and hone your skill. It feels amazing to harmonize with a group of voices.

This fletcher is a bit of a WILD operator! Kinda awkward and slow in the beginning, cringy and juvenile in the middle,,,,,,, but god damn, what a glorious ending. ... and that's kind of like a metaphor for my life and how I envision it. I am really taking to this rs journalling idea. I've just been tinkering around, trying stuff out and trying to work out how to fit my training schedule around my job. Overall this week I gained like 250k magic xp and about 30k agility xp.

Incidentally:

I use a VPN on multiple devices in multiple different networks. It's the only way to troll. Happy to talk with mods about issues.

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I drive an alien, runs like a dream.