Carl-Richard

Another way of increasing your awareness of energy is to engage with highly energetic teachers (or just any teachers). Jan Esmann is the most energetic I've come across. Martin Ball who I mentioned is highly energetic. Sadhguru as well. Another is Mata Amritanandamayi.

To think of deconstruction as a beginner exercise is a misunderstanding. You need to deconstruct a shit ton, again and again in every meditation. Only when you're advanced and on the verge of Enlightenment and the deconstruction is habitual, you can sit and "wait" and amazing things will just happen. But even then, there is often a subtle deconstruction going on at the level of energy:

Is this an episode of Seinfeld?

A large part of letting go or deconstructing in meditation is becoming aware of cycles (of thought) or things you're attached to. For example, when sitting down to meditate, do you notice feeling some pressure to do something later that day or after stopping meditating? Simply tell yourself that there is nothing you need to do, let go of the need of having to do it. Trust yourself that you will do what is needed despite having let go of the need to do it. If you're acting from a place of presence, you will do what is needed when it's needed. You don't need to worry. Simply staying with presence is what you're after in meditation, but these cycles keep taking you out of it if you do not become aware of them. That's what deconstruction is about; allowing presence to unfold by letting go of your compulsive tendencies and attachment to things. And in the end, it's about letting go of everything you ever care about. If you really want to go all the way to Enlightenment, you can't take yourself with you. That's the harsh truth of Enlightenment. If you think you want Enlightenment, you are mistaken. Do you want to see the end of you?

Haha.

What time does a broken non-dual clock always show? One.

I wouldn't worry much about that, as people who consider themselves very developed are mostly just Blue 😆

Pistachio ice cream in your cupboard? Do you live in an igloo?

Sprint training is when you do maximal effort (95-100%) for a short period of time (20-30 seconds), ideally while running. Why maximal effort? Because solving difficult problems is like a sprint. Remember all the times you've read a difficult text and you feel like you're straining your brain while reading one particularly difficult sentence. Reading a sentence takes maximum a few seconds. Understanding or grasping the idea takes the time it takes to read the sentence and maybe a little more, but not much more. Either you grasp it there, or you don't. You can try again, sprinting again, but chances are, if you read it a few times and you still don't understand, you probably won't understand it for a while (you have to e.g. read some other text or take a break). You have to make the sprint then and there. You have to engage in that level of intensity then and there, or else you won't grasp it. Now, lower intensity training (e.g. moderate intensity cardio) might help you sift through more problems over a longer period of time and increasing your general work capacity, but the quality, the depth, the weight of the problem depends on your level of intensity. Thus training at maximum intensity will strongly increase your ability to solve difficult problems. Also, I've noticed sprint training makes your thinking incredibly fast (the rate of thinking), which is maybe not so unexpected either. That's probably also a big part of solving difficult problems, of being able to present a wide range of alternatives in a short amount of time before your attention runs out. Why ideally when running? Because you are biomechanically most equipped to expend the most energy per unit of time by moving your body in a way that resembles running. Running is not just about moving your feet; it involves the entire body, the upper body arguably just as much as the lower body. And you were built to run; there are millions of years of bipedal evolution driving your body to run, and therefore your body should expend the most energy by running (because energy spent running is essentially congruent to evolutionary fitness). Evolution fine-tuned your body to move your arms and legs in that specific way, so you should take advantage of that. So far, I've made the case on a purely mechanistic ground, call it "philosophy of physiology". But you can also make the case on more concrete scientific and neurophysiological grounds. Sprint training, or more accurately in this case "working out until failure" (which is best achieved by sprinting until failure), induces the production of lactic acid, which is converted to lactate, which is a neurotransmitter that is involved in brain function. It increases BDNF (which increases the growth of neurons), it's involved in monoamine neurotransmitter synthesis (dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine), it's even used as an energy source for neurons. However, sprinting until absolute failure is arguably not where you'll get the best overall effects, but rather when you try to sprint as fast as possible, because again, you want to strain your system at a maximum level and elevate your ceiling of intensity. It's an overall systemic adaptation towards maximal intensity that I believe should be the main goal. Again, there are other cases to be made for again moderate intensity cardio, or 4x4 training (for increasing VO2 max), or even lifting weights, as these all produce their own particular signatures in the body and which feeds into the brain in their own unique ways. If you want to be a well-rounded person, you want to engage in all of it from time to time. But if you care about solving difficult problems, if you care about "thinking fast", and if you care about feeding your brain a very beneficial nutrient and signalling molecule (lactate), you should consider incorporating some form of sprint training (ideally running sprints) into your workout routine. Other alternatives than running sprints are assault bike, normal bike. I find that I can only sprint around 1-2 times a week (on top of weight training 3.5 times a week) because it is very fatiguing. So keep that in mind, because fatigue will also inhibit cognitive functioning.

That's why I think it undervalues my Fi. I would have to give it an essay detailing my life and aspirations and values to really get that across. However, the real use for AI would be when you can download an app and it essentially collects data from everything in your life, including real life. That is also when you can create truly accurate models, not just scoring somebody on an existing model. And it could also give more personalized accounts that don't fit neatly into a four-letter model. "You talk to yourself in your sleep".

Here is a ChatGPT o3 prompt I developed (together with ChatGPT o3) for typing your MBTI type based on your posts on this forum: Why is this good? Because it avoids the biases associated with self-report, the bane of all self-administered personality tests. Now you can get a highly data-driven, third person testing of your personality type with just the click of a button. Feel free to feed this prompt to ChatGPT o3. Also, somebody try toggling the deep research option and increase the sample size by 10x (simply 10x all the relevant numbers in the prompt). Please share your results and your thoughts. Also feel free to provide your own prompts and develop the promps further by feeding it back to ChatGPT and cleverly asking it for help on how to improve it.

I wasn't. I'm eternally aware that everything I'm saying at all times is a limited and compartmentalized perspective. But it indeed just becomes boring to repeat that all the time. Unless you have a specific injunction or alternative when pointing out the limitations of a perspective, it quickly becomes boring.

I'll come back to you once I find out if it's legal Sheee. I have an idea for an art project where I get a yogi or equivalent person to meditate while we film them in ultra HD with many static cameras in an empty room so we can capture the deep stillness and transmission associated with deeper meditative states. And I will plaster it on digital billboards and awaken everybody. I have zero photography experience so give me a call 👍

But you were initially adding things within the frame, but then you jumped out of the frame instead of addressing the issue I posed within the frame. That's not fun. It's like we're discussing what to eat and then I press you on a food and then you're like "hold on hold on, you don't mean we have to eat, right?". Or it's like we're discussing Star Wars and then you get up and say "Star Wars is shit!" If you want to jump out of the frame, address what was said within the frame first and then signal that you will jump out of the frame. I like to do this by saying like "but if you want to drop x assumptions, you could say y instead". Or in your case, "I see your point, but let's say fuck science for a bit and [...]".

So this is happening which I will divide into two parts: 1. Like in the previous discussion we had, you want to jump up a level and critique the frame. Here is the frame so we're not confused: physical activity in general is deeply beneficial for cognitive functioning (because the brain after all is a organ in the physical body and the brain correlates strongly with cognitive functioning). Thus higher intensity physical activity could be beneficial for higher intensity cognitive tasks. 2. I said you were being reductionistic within this frame, focusing on a measure like heart rate, but then you jump up a level and call the frame reductionstic. If you have a problem with the frame, that's fine, critique the frame, but don't conflate that with the question I posed to you about you being reductionistic.

I knew you would do this mysticism response lol. You can reach max BPM while doing a jog and then slowly ramping up your speed. But it's not the same as a sprint. You have to look at the system as a whole. And it's simply the case that contracting your muscles produces a different response than thinking about it (although I've heard thinking about lifting actually can increase gains, but for most people, you probably won't become Mr. Olympia that way alone, put mildly). Anticipatory anxiety is not the same as contracting your muscles. Physical exercise is simply a different beast than sitting on your ass and thinking about scary shit.

I didn't say it wasn't difficult. I just said there is probably a big anticipatory/"non-work" component driving the sympathetic response you're highlighting.

You have to think about it non-reductionistically. Maxing your BPM is one symptom of straining your system during the work that is a sprint. Your entire body, your muscles, your lungs, your intracellular machinery, is exploding with activity in way that you don't get by sitting still (unless you use some magical machine). Anticipatory anxiety is a way you prepare for such an undertaking. I feel a kind of anticipatory anxiety (which is more conditioned rather than mental-discursive) before a sprint where my heart rate increases and my mind sharpens and I feel amped up, but it's nothing compared to the sprint itself.

Merely having a mentally induced stress response on its own, e.g. if you're thinking about some presentation that you will have but that you're not currently having, probably doesn't confer much benefit. And there is probably a lot of that going on in a business deal, as you're projecting many scenarios that might happen that maybe won't happen ("what if I say the wrong thing?", "what if they decline the deal?", "what if I make a fool out of myself?"). It's when the response is tied to an actually difficult operation, e.g. doing a complex division in your head, or really digging into some difficult problem, that you see the growth benefits. It's when the response is provoked as a necessary resource for that specific operation as it's happening. Again, the mind has various mechanisms of projecting and preparing itself for work but which is actually not work in itself, anticipatory anxiety. But it's the work itself that is important.

I guess. Physical training is just one way of enhancing cognition. I also do brain training. But physicality is a power tool. Your brain is intrinsically tied to physicality.

There are post-rational Christians. But of course it sort of deconstructs the concept. But still, they call themselves Christian.

IQ is like driving a fast car. It doesn't tell you as much about where you will drive, just that you'll drive there very fast (also depending on the road of course). There are many roads, and you can't drive them all. You are on a very particular road if you ended up here. And to think you needed a high IQ to end up here is ridiculous. There are many slow drivers around these parts 😂 (I heard they measured some monk's IQ to be like 70? 😉). Driving also depends on things like the skill of the driver (which is not the same as IQ), the sense of direction, passion and grit, obsession, potential roadblocks, good samaritans, the weather, the tires, the right guidance, the right maps. As Chris Langan once said, "IQ is not everything".

I think I just cracked the code for my particular regimen. I tend to eat a kiwi with my eggs and bread for breakfast, but I tend to eat it after the eggs and bread as a kind of dessert. Then I realized what if I pair the multivitamin that I usually take before my breakfast with the kiwi (because I have noticed some GI discomfort from taking it on empty stomach)? It should be smart because a kiwi is mostly water and fiber and should not interfere too much with the mostly water soluble multivitamin (all of it is water soluble except vitamin E I think). Also, when you eat a kiwi before a meal, you'll have the special digestive enzyme in the kiwi ready to go (possibly helping to digest the multivitamin as well) and also the fiber ready to coat the digestive tract so that it limits the glucose spike from the breakfast. And the various phytochemicals and vitamins in the kiwi could also work synergistically with the uptake and action of the multivitamin. Nevertheless, I've never felt better in terms of GI comfort and mental effects from my morning meal than this. Imagine all the other things you could simply reverse the order of or alter some of the process aspect and completely fix a problem or magnify some effect.

So I started taking a multivitamin supplement because I was already taking so many other supplements so I thought "why not?" However, I've noticed when taking a B-complex before of it causing a burning sensation in my chest and excess energy, which is why I stopped taking it back then. Now I'm getting similar symptoms, but I'm wondering if it's due to the B vitamins or something else? Here is the multivitamin I'm taking (it does not include vitamin A, D and K): https://www.apotek1.no/produkter/nycoplus-multi-uten-a-d-k-tab-999942p (Translated and NRV/RDI provided by ChatGPT): Nutrient Amt/tab % EU NRV ------------------------------------------------------------ Vitamin E 12 mg 100 Thiamine (Vitamin B1) 1.4 mg 127 Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 1.7 mg 121 Niacin 19 mg NE 119 Vitamin B6 1.6 mg 114 Folic acid (Folate) 400 µg 200 Vitamin B12 2 µg 80 Pantothenic acid 5 mg 83 Vitamin C 75 mg 94 Biotin 30 µg 60 Iron 15 mg 107 Zinc 5 mg 50 Iodine 150 µg 100 Copper 0.9 mg 90 Manganese 2.3 mg 115 Chromium 35 µg 88 Selenium 60 µg 109 Molybdenum 45 µg 90 Magnesium 100 mg 27 ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm also in addition taking 300 mg magnesium, 30 ug vitamin D3, some negligible amount of fish oil with lower amounts of vitamin A, D, E (125 ug, 8 ug, 5 mg), 13 mg zinc, 75 ug vitamin K1, 500 mg calcium, 75 ug vitamin K2. The symptoms only started after taking the multivitamin. I'm also an active male who weighs 80kg and is 179 cm.

Longevity is roughly equal to health stretched over time.