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All I hear is "me, me, me." Your woman clearly cares. All you have to do is pretend to be in a good mood and look forward to those days a couple of times a year so she can celebrate and enjoy herself on these occasions. Of course, you don't have to care about those silly traditions, but you better care about your woman.
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Learn some basic Transactional Analysis scripts and stop taking it personal.
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As far as minimalism goes, this is as good as it gets.
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I cycle everything for 5 days on and 2 days off, but you're right, I do notice that tolerance builds up over time with certain substances regardless. One solution to this would be to cycle through distinct nootropic stacks every few months, so you never become too attached to anything in particular. The accelerationist solution would be to perpetually keep optimizing and adding new compounds, habits, and technologies. I'm currently more oriented towards the latter.
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$1M in revenue refers to the gross revenue for the company. A sales guy will make somewhere between 5-20% in commission on that, depending on the industry, the company they work for, and their compensation plan.
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If you combine foods in the correct way and ratio, you can maintain ketosis even while consuming a wide variety of foods. I've ordered some ketone test strips and will try to back up that claim with empirical evidence.
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I would have to give you an elaborate phenomenological description of my subjective experience, which I'm not interested in attempting to conjure up.
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On a carnivore diet, I also felt great for a while, but after a couple of months, it went downhill (even though I supplemented with a shit ton of micronutrients). Intuitively, it feels more correct to eat a wide variety of high-quality foods than to eat one kind of food all the time, and empirically, I can verify this as well. As far as a rational explanation for this, I'm at a loss.
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It is very noticeable. Like a discrete phase shift towards higher clarity. I've always felt great after eating high-quality red meat, so I definitely didn't want to give that up. Besides that, are high-quality, organic sources of important nutrients (healthy fats, proteins, amino acids, minerals, etc.) and, to a large extent, products that in the current system would usually have gone to waste anyway (bones, organs, eggshells, fish skin). I did not sit down one day and come up with some sort of grand scheme; this is mostly based on trial and error and, of course, informed by research. I couldn't tell you with confidence that this current configuration is the perfect one; it's just one that currently works for me. Yes, I have much more sustained energy and drive that way.
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How would you know? You're like a fish in water. In any case, I'm sure different things work for different people. I have tried virtually every way of eating over the past 5+ years, from carnivore to vegan, keto to Ray Peat, and everything in between - so I guess I would know what works for me. Where did I imply that this was necessitated by my change in diet? I have always been interested in nootropics. I took them before, and I take them now. They significantly improve my cognitive functions on top of an already great nutrition and lifestyle foundation. I consume it in moderation, and feel good doing so. Never heard about that, and some quick research doesn’t confirm this either.
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Scaring the Hoes
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My diet used to be quite similar to that of Mr. Jason (except I consumed more fruit, in the style of Ray Peat). However, after some time, it became clear to me that this approach was neither sustainable, ethical, nor optimal for my health. What I will say is that this way of eating provides a ton of energy, albeit of very low quality. Essentially, you sacrifice mental clarity and all higher faculties for a very crude, adolescent-like energy. Nowadays, my diet is a hybrid between Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint and Dave Asprey’s Headstrong diet, with heavy supplementation on the nootropic side. It focuses on emphasizing cognitive performance, while keeping trade-offs in other areas to a minimum. Essentially, I try to make it as holistic as possible. I also try to minimize my consumption of animal products, as long as it doesn’t impinge on my health and performance. I eat a nice entrecôte every evening, consume some butter and ghee, collagen from various animal sources (fish skin, eggshells, and beef bones), fish oil and some organs and bone broth from reindeers. It sounds like a lot, but it actually isn’t—it just gives me all the benefits of eating animal-based products while consuming as little of the animal as possible. Besides that, my diet mainly consists of non-animal fats (coconut, avocado), vegetables, legumes, grains, and nuts.
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I'm afraid this will throw us into a deep discussion of creativity and art. If I understand correctly, "neurotic" kind of means being more sensitive to one's emotional reactions/reacting more strongly to emotional triggers; perhaps even a deeper emotional experience in general. While not the entire picture, for the purpose of our discussion, it might be fair to suggest that emotions were developed by evolution to prevent the emerging subject from becoming disconnected from the "objective" world, where it has to survive. Therefore, high neuroticism would imply a leaning towards "objectivity" and pragmatism, whereas low neuroticism would be more associated with "subjectivity" and art. Let's take painting as an example. I will agree that task-relevant processing will probably facilitate one getting into deep flow when painting and in that sense being conducive to mastery in this line of development. At the same time, one's imagination and artistic vision will be severely informed by this neurotic experience of life, which will tend to produce more representational and conformist ("objective"), as opposed to more personal and radical art. I think the disconnect here is your idea of creativity being some perennial ideal one can tap into under the right conditions, while to me, creativity can only be brought forth by turning away from tradition and embracing the unknown and transgressive (and thus requiring low neuroticism to cultivate). This is how I imagine a highly neurotic person would depict death and tragedy vs. a highly non-neurortic (?) person: While "The Death of Socrates" (first picture) is no doubt a masterful painting, Motherwells "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" (second picture) is arguably much more important in its contribution to our understanding of art and representation (and thus more "creative"). There is also much more of the artist themselves in this work. Which is a nice segue into this, perhaps relevant, quote: "All artists are voyeurs, not people of action" - Robert Motherwell
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I find opiates make me too dull and apathetic to consider them supreme social lubricants, although admittedly, I haven't experimented with them much yet.
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It's not as strong, but it generally has the same effect. Dopamine doesn't help with socializing at all unless you have some imbalances or deficiencies. You want to be relaxed and confident, not wired—which is why a reasonable dose of Phenibut, which targets GABA, is so helpful. Even Modafinil is far from optimal and will make you far too intense for smooth social interactions.