Raphael

I saw a few of his videos before. He seems now to be close to where I was a few years ago where I had a spiritual ego too even though I never did pick up. He is trying to find his way to enlightenment but doesn't know how and doesn't understand what he is actually doing. It seems like he is starting to get exhausted by stage orange and start to move into green, but still addicted to the success of orange so he has a spiritual ego, that's normal.

16 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:49 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 08:40 AM - 09:48 AM: I added some fake data. I distracted myself a little on the actualized.org forum. Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 10:11 AM - 11:29 AM: I added more fake data and did some configuration. Work Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 11:39 AM - 12:28 AM: I planned a new task and inspected the project. I found some bugs. Work Duration: 49 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 01:34 PM - 02:36 PM: I fixed a few bugs on the front end. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 02:43 PM - 04:11 PM: I started to do some fixes on the backend. It's a little complicated. I also got negative thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 04:21 PM - 05:06 PM: I continued the work on the API and got unexpected issues. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes, including 3 hours 15 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Now the question is: Why does the shit go down?

I think I understand what you mean because I'm currently experiencing this. It seems like to me that you are experiencing a temporary blockage/phase. You will go through it and go over it naturally. Much love ♥

15 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:36 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 04:10 PM - 04:20 PM: I reviewed a pull request and merged it, and installed the new API version on the server. Work Duration: 10 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 08:40 AM - 09:29 AM: I fixed the date range bugs. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes 09:50 AM - 11:52 AM: I fixed an API bug, it was quite simple but I took a lot of time to resolve it. I also got distracted by a client during this session. Finally, I noticed that when I'm confronted with difficulties, I try to run away from the problem or get negative thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 12:01 AM - 12:49 AM: I wanted to delete some data in a child component when deleting an item, but I realized that it's going to be very difficult without Redux. I'm currently a little stuck on the issue. Deep Work Duration: 48 minutes 01:48 PM - 04:01 PM: I found a solution to the previous problem and also fixed many other bugs. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes This day was incredible, everything went well. I woke up early, exercised for 30 minutes, did an hour of meditation, and was in a flow state almost all the time. It was smooth and effortless, it was perfection. The only thing that I need to be careful of is to not work for more than 1 hour 30 minutes in a session. After this time, my concentration usually decreases and the quality of my work too. Usually, I have such long sessions because I encounter an issue in the middle that I want to solve to move forward, but this is too much concentrated effort for too much time. I need to take breaks after 1 hour 30 minutes sessions. Total Work Duration: 6 hours 3 minutes, including 5 hours 53 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

A Philosophical Argument for Depth (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) Any pursuit — be it physical or cognitive — that supports high levels of skills can generate a sense of sacredness Deep work, therefore, is key to extracting meaning from your profession

A Psychological Argument for Depth (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile The more flow experiences occur in a given week, the higher the subject's life satisfaction. Human beings are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging If we give rapt attention to important things, and therefore also ignore shallow negative things, we'll experience our working life as more important and positive

A Neurological Argument for Depth (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) Attention defines the quality of our life Skilful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of our experience Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love — is the sum of what you focus on People are happier after they rewired their brains to ignore the negative and savour the positive. By skillfully managing attention, we can improve our world without changing anything concrete about it Your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to Being highly focused prevents to notice the many smaller and less pleasant things that unavoidably and persistently populate our life A concentration can be so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems When you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what's right A workday driven by the shallow is likely to be a draining and upsetting day, even if most of the shallow things that capture your attention seem harmless or fun To increase the time you spend in a state of depth is to leverage the complex machinery of the human brain in a way that for several different neurological reasons maximizes the meaning and satisfaction you'll associate with your working life

Deep Work Is Meaningful (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) A deep life is not just economically lucrative, but also a life well lived.

The Principle of Least Resistance & Busyness as a Proxy for Productivity (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) Without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors on the bottom line, we tend toward behaviors that are easiest at the moment. In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.

14 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:30 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 02:55 PM - 03:45 PM: I added API calls to the frontend. There's maybe a little more bugs than I expected for the date range. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes Total Work Duration: 50 minutes, including 50 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

What are you trying to change/improve? What is not working in what you are trying to change?

What difficulties do you face?

13 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:10 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:39 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 08:45 AM - 09:52 AM: Managing this date range is giving me some headaches. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM: I continued the work on the date range, then got distracted by youtube. Deep Work Duration: 30 minutes 11:46 AM - 01:18 PM: I finished to work on the date range. The solution was easier than I thought, my crazy mind made it uselessly complicated. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 02:17 PM - 03:17 PM: Board load on the interface after successful creation. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 03:28 PM - 04:47 PM: I started to add some APIs for the statistic boards. I had a bug, I was unable to get the reference of a child component. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 08:15 PM - 09:14 PM: I corrected the bug and also disabled the header on any board operation. I found another bug for the end date. Deep Work Duration: 59 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 27 minutes, including 6 hours 27 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Thanks, but I need to stabilize myself as I still slack off too much. And also, my goal of working regularly for at least 6 hours / day is still not met, but I'm working on it.

12 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:35 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM: I read an article on Google reCAPTCHA and did some verifications. Work Duration: 30 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 01:20 PM - 02:38 PM: I went back on my personal project and started to work on dates initialization for the dashboard. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 03:53 PM - 05:00 PM: I created the code to set the end date limits. The negatives thoughts were crazy, they disrupted my work a lot. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 06:00 PM - 06:50 PM: More work on the dates and the interactions between the start date and the end date. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes Total Work Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes, including 3 hours 15 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

11 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:32 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 07:40 PM - 08:22 PM: I set up databases using MongoDB Atlas. It will provide better security in the future. Work Duration: 42 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 7:50 AM - 09:03 AM: I fixed yesterday's bug, it happened because the same object was referenced multiple times in an array. I also started to work on the category filter for the search page. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 09:12 AM - 10:07 AM: I created a nested form to deal with the categories. I still need to make some tweaks to display it correctly and link the data. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 01:42 PM - 03:06 PM: The categories are now displaying correctly and I linked the checkboxes to the model. A few more operations need to be done. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 03:20 PM - 04:36 PM: I finished the work on the categories selection and I also fixed a few other bugs. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes Total Work Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes, including 4 hours 48 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

10 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:30 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:29 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM: I added more features on the client website. I still have negative parasite thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 03:41 PM - 04:34 PM: I fixed a loading bug and make the API call to get the categories. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes 08:07 PM - 09:04 PM: I worked on brand selection, then got a strange bug that I still don't understand. I will investigate tomorrow morning. Deep Work Duration: 57 minutes Total Work Duration: 3 hours 21 minutes, including 3 hours 21 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Life Advice For Young People Excellent videos as usual that I need to implement.

09 June 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:58 AM - 10:10 AM: I had a call with a client, but he then got interrupted. Work Duration: 12 minutes 10:16 AM - 10:23 AM: I continued and finished the previous call. Work Duration: 7 minutes 10:36 AM - 10:40 AM: I had another quick call. Work Duration: 4 minutes 03:00 PM - 03:25 PM: I had a call with a client. Work Duration: 25 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 09:28 AM - 09:57 AM: I did a few HTML/CSS and Typescript fixes but then got interrupted by a client. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes 11:30 AM - 12:51 AM: I did many small improvements and fixes and created two new empty components. I was having parasite thoughts, but then put some chill music and felt much more relaxed. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 01:53 PM - 02:48 PM: I starting to work on the search filters then notice that there's going to be an issue with the API. I was a little distracted and agitated. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 03:37 PM - 04:28 PM: More minor corrections. Deep Work Duration: 51 minutes I woke up early, but take too much time to get started. I spent time on this forum and spent time reading about politics. I'm too much concerned about politics, I need to focus more about my objectives. Total Work Duration: 4 hours 24 minutes, including 3 hours 36 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

That's an excellent insight. I also noticed that in myself, when I wanted to help people, to "show them the way" I would do it because as an ego I wanted to feel good to help people and be the one that would improve their situation.

Not Trusting Leo I really like Leo's content and highly resonate with him most of the time, but at the same time that's almost everything that I watch and I have been following him since the end of 2015. I'm ingurgitating too much information from him. I also feel like he is shaming people in his videos for not doing what he is doing, even though the shaming decreased a lot in the last 2 - 3 years probably because he grew a lot too. I need to stop trusting everything that he says and spend more time alone investigating myself.

@Dutch guy What do you like and not like? What are your values?

@Epikur No Trump will not be re-elected

@Epikur I recognize valid perspectives when I see them. They are many factors, culture plays a role, geography plays a role, exploitation and abuses play a role too, etc..