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Meditation does help. Different meditations are suited for different types of brains though so there are probably meditations which work very well for ADHD people. I haven't searched enough for that but I can say generally guided meditations are almost always preferable because they keep you on track which is hard to do with ADHD.

I listened to it 15min so far. It's a very interesting psychological breakdown. But because it goes in such detail I wonder to which extend does everybody already do it? If that were outlined as well you could have a fair comparison. Because as he said everybody is forced to do these strategies to a certain extend. But I think Owen really is a lot more manipulative than the rest and he could still make good money being less of a marketer. When I first saw Owen I hated him a lot. All I wanted to do is punch in that stupid face to make him shut the fuck up finally. Like I can understand and accept almost all personalities to different extends but there is a special place for the kinds who are consciously untruthful with their audience for personal gain like that repells me at the core of my being. He has some good pick up advice though for that I give him value but his marketing remains super cringe to me.

So I recently came up with a strategy which can make it easier for people who specifically just want to maintain muscle mass for people with very low training frequency like once a week. I personally am just maintaining muscle mass for the last 2 years with very little effort and I have no ambition of growing any muscle again but I am always coming up with new ways to maintain my muscle in more simple or healthy ways. Here is a new strategy I came up with: Sometimes it's hard not to exceed just the maintenance stimulus. For example (and I have many which I will mention in a moment) when I do stiff legged deadlifts to maintain my hamstrings it would be very awkward to train in a way that just maintenances the hamstrings as that would be like 1 set not even to failure because stiff legged deadlifts are so damn stimulative for the hamstrings. So you end up overstimulating some muscles. So even though thats not the goal it doesnt hurt right? Well stimulus correlates with more fatigue and fatigue has the downsides that 1) the rest of the training suffers, 2) that its feels hard and 3) that it takes time to recover from after the workout which can drain you. So it is not something you wish to have more off but on the other hand not implementing the very stimulating exercises feels like left out potential and awkward. So in a low frequency maintenance program a possible implementation of this overstimulating sets could be to implement certain sets which exceed the maintenance stimulus if it makes a lot of sense with the exercise and then rotate that training with another training that is under stimulative on the muscle. So that through the rotation of too stimulating training and not enough stimulating training you get an average of just enough stimulating training. It willingly accepts a bit of muscle loss in the under stimulating trainings week as it regrows in the over stimulating trainings week. Some examples: 1) quads week A: 10 mio sets of leg extensions for quads (easy money stimulus for quads which exceeds maintenance stimulus) week B: 2 sets of deadlifts (doesnt hit the quads a ton and will loose quad muscle!) week A: 10 min sets of leg extensions for quads again which will rebuilt the quad muscle week B: 2 sets of deadlifts again repeat 2) back week A: 4 sets of pull ups (over stimulus for lats not so much traps and rhomboids -> lats grow, traps & rhomboids shrink) week B: 4 sets of row machine (over stimulus for traps and rhomboids and just okay stimulus for lats -> lats shrink, traps & rhomboids grow) repeat 3) glutes week A: 1 set of walking lunges (overstimulates glutes a ton) -> grows glutes week B: 3 sets of leg press (more for quads, not a ton of glute engagement) -> glutes shrink repeat What do you guys think?

Has anyone here ADHD and can share his experience on how ADHD affects psychedelic trips? How to have effective trips with ADHD? Also what about ADHD meds. What is the interplay between psychedelics and ADHD medications? (like Ritalin)

It is based on old science which isnt supported anymore. Why would you take scientific advice from decades ago when new science is out? If it works for you thats fine I believe you there. But it is probably not the best strategy for most people when you look at scientific evidence nowadays. Here if you want to get into the details:

I dont buy that Mike Mentzer training philosophy. It's very outdated.

Thats the most fun way to train.

Through the years of training I really got into the habit of planning my workouts so it's natural for me and fun. This approach minimizes effort. I would train need to train a lot more and eat in a surplus to see notable gains. Not interested in that at all anymore as I can spend my time making more valueable gains elsewhere.

No let me explain!: In the overstimulating training you grow the atrophied muscle back! So yes you might loose some muscle short term (a week) then gain it back then loose it short term again then gain it back again - instead of higher frequency where you never really get into a situation of loosing or gaining any muscle. I just wanted to make some examples for muscles where this training technique could be applied thats not the whole workout! For some muscle this training technique simply doesnt make any sense. Side delts for example as they are hard to overstimulate. Is it understandable now? I sometime have great difficulties sharing my ideas because I sometimes jump through thought processes without noticing.

@PenguinPablo Didnt know Steve Jobs had ADHD. Thats so cool. I know his LSD story where he found that life is about creating beautiful things which inspired him for his apple products which I always found very inspiring. Would like to trip like Steve Jobs but I am too emotionally unstable atm no chance.

I am being serious. Please express your concerns.

I am very interested in it too. It's definitely not too far from my LP. I haven't finished the LP course yet but I already wrote down "releasing people from existential pressure" as that resonates the most with me so far. I once had a moment where I deeply needed a philosophical counseling. I was hurt and in a deep existential crisis about the meaning of the world. I somehow figured out that there is duality in reality but didnt know what to do with that because I had a very very limited understanding of it but also couldn't let it go. I made a very pessimistic meaning out of that that reality is pointless and all that because everything we achieve will let something else look bad. Or not? And what was the meaning of anything when we would all ultimately die? I was lonely and confused and unaware of that and needed some higher understanding/ meaning to make sense of everything. Whenever I was at my lowest point and fell into a short moment of despair my intuition gave me a short signal. A little fragment of a higher consciousness of love and peace beyond duality. That was the realest thing in my experience and it was my North Star which I pursued which let me to Alan Watts and Leo later. Gosh I wish I could describe it more poetically as that really was a confrontation and war with the universe at the core. So in my desperation I reached out to some philosophical dude on YouTube describing my situation and asking him for help as he seems like the only person I knew who could get what I am saying and help me. After a few people called me a lunatic and my argumentation a dunning Kruger case in the comment section he replied that he thinks my points are all very deep and important and he also asked me what I needed to get better. This was a very important point in my life I just needed that little help where seemingly nobody in the world could help me with. Only then did I realize that you tend to care about the meaning of life when life is shit because you need a justification for continue living. And that to a certain degree humans aren't that complicated. Humans have basic needs beyond your conscious control and if you dont satisfy them you are unhappy. He couldnt help me with finding higher truths but I gained enough of a stepping stone. First meeting my basic needs spirituality after that.

While the details are all different it's a good general analogy so I would mostly agree. I would doubt that strongly. There are things in reality that you cant change by changing your awareness about it. Like you cant hit through a wall when you try to imagine hitting through a wall. There is a hard structure/ rules of reality that you cant dissolve with consciousness training. And the thing is you and your psychology are also made out of that hard structure of reality so this gives you limits. So even though you could theoretically interpret erotical things into a toaster for example I think practically your mind is too limited to allow you that but it's certainly very stretchable.

ADHD awareness really isnt as straight forward: ADHD brains are aware of a lot of reality at once which means they aren't aware of anything deeply because awareness is finite. Unless they are very interested in something then there awareness is only on that thing and nothing else also because of finite awareness. So a mixture of high quantity low quality awareness and high quality low quantity awareness. Like a biconcave object.

Haha I have ADHD and I would love to be genetically more conscious of course so yeah I am biased. But I try to be aware of my bias to come to truthful conclusions. I listened to Daniel Schmachtenberger and how there are less dreamy and peaceful people left in the world cause of evolution and I thought that people with inattentive type of ADHD might be the people who survived that. But making this connection is pretty much a guess. Yes there might be some overlap but that doesnt mean there is causality.

Or if it's something emotional. Everything where your attention would usually rises it hyper rises with ADHD. And if that's not the case the attention is unregulated and splitted into all directions.

Thats just a symptom.

Just started taking ADHD medications again and it's hard to live without them already. I mean life were hard without the meds so.. Well it's probably likely that you get a lot done on the day you take the drug? So maybe intentionally built in a rest day in between where you only do light work if any.

I started taking ADHD medications again so I can kind of compare the states. On meds you change psychologically a lot. Like you really enter another form experience. The new experience becomes a lot less profound but a lot more manageable. Like you can get shit done finally which really frees your mind up and makes you more conscious in the sense that there is less stuff pulling away from being conscious. But if my ADHD brain could naturally be supported like with trusting emotional support and a life that is designed to be ADHD manageable I think I would be way more conscious with ADHD.

This video of Schopenhauer really made me aware of an idea I had about navigating the world because it is analogous to Schopenhauers its simply in a different domain. I always had a very high moral development and because of that got easily abused. What I did was that I consciously integrated the appearance of an immoral person in my persona so that I could get along. No sane actually immoral person would do that because it usually gets disadvantages. But for me I wouldnt get abused as easily because people thought I wasn't moral but because it was more of a persona the people that really cared would see through the disguise and find their way to me. And it worked. I had forgotten though that I even integrated these mechanism into my psyche but now I understand why I did that. If you are more developed in spiral dynamics than your environment then it might be a good strategy to act less developed then you are on the surface. On the cognitive level it could mean acting like a fool, on the moral front it could mean acting like an asshole. Of course integrating that effectively takes a lot nuanced thinking. You dont want to actually be an immoral person or an idiot and you dont want to harvest the downsides of that appearance too much. So it's also about integrating hints so the right people can see through the disguise.

If a girl asks you "does my ass look fat?" how does one reply without falling for a trap? I feel as though it would be of great importance to collect a list of possible responses so we are all well prepared if such a situation would come about. My best response so far would be: "Yes but in a good way." // 6/10

Immature superhero. (Another Dalton-like idea 5) A Superhero who gets away with exactly the things mature people talk him out of. Imagine how much damage it would create if such a superhero would be popular for kids. Well we got some very immature role models nowadays so I thought this picture could describe some of that in humoristic fashion.

I appreciate that you recognize the seriousness of the topic at hand.

Ice cold wind in winter which makes me feel alive. Infinite snowflakes falling from the sky. A soul connecting to another soul through the eyes.

I don't know enough about modafinil or the vegan diet to answer such an advanced question. You can try a vegan diet for yourself and see if it personally gives you more mental clarity and then modafinil will probably add something on top of that. What are you looking for exactly? Like do you have a health condition or something and are looking for a solution?