Life begins at 60 ... or maybe later. For each of us, there are things that we cannot accomplish until after we have lost the arrogance that comes with ability and youth. Until you take the UNNECESSARY away, you'll never know what you actually have.
OWN your own time ... OWN and IMPROVE your own DISCIPLINE of TIME MANAGEMENT
ESPECIALLY refuse to ever just swallow something that makes you comfortable ... if it reaffirms or confirms what you believed before, it is bad ... informational comfort is used to sell you ideas and products that make you dependent and less than vigilant. You must wake every day and HUNT for the truth ... the truth will NEVER show up in old things that reassure you.
Explore IDEAS ... travel in the virtual realm without traveling ... to explore more ideas.
Understand your health. NOBODY else is going to be capable of understanding that better than you do.
Your body will atrophy into a high-maintenance wad of manufactured SHIT.
What is your life about? If you only a copy of something else, how can you even stand being alone with yourself? Stop being a pathetic copy.
Stop analyzing economics as if the world is made up of tantrum-throwing five-year-olds who think exactly like you. NOBODY THINKS EXACTLY LIKE YOU ... YOU won't even think like you do tomorrow IF YOU ARE A HEALTHY HUMAN BEING.
No wonder you keep shooting yourself in the foot ... you keep aiming at the wrong things.
"How do I do that?" you might ask. It's like anything else ... you find out what it is and you dive in and do it ... and then you find out that you didn't exactly know what is ... so you find everything you can now that you know some of the keywords you dive in and try again to do it ... and you still will not come close to knowing, but as long as you keep diving off into the deep end of the shark tank, you'll be okay.
What mission are you training for? How hard are you willing to push yourself?
Stop being someone else's gadget. Stop wasting your life on someone else's game. RETIRE!
Affluence always produces deleterious consequences because of the tendency for the complainers who blame others for their inactivity and refusal to change, to adapt and produce under different circumstances.
PRACTICAL long-term fitness for an active life until one is at least a centarion what the training regimen for the annual winter hiking/backpacing reunion in the desert canyons is all about ... besides, a guy needs to die somewhere.
Regardless of how tough things get, you will find the most joy and happiness through fighting. Don't imagine that you're so entitled that you get to claim that these are something like "end times." Your ancestors lived, fought and died in times that were significantly worse. Knock off the complaining about your pathetic, trivial, insignificant difficulties ... if you are able to fight, you must fight.
Viruses are going to virus. Stop being spooked...get busy. Coronavirus is a viral opportunity accelerator.
It's okay if you choose the option of wotking according someone else's routine ... but realize that being coddled is a CHOICE. You have choices and options ...
If you can't knock out your opponent in a life-or-death fight in less than two minutes, the struggle is going to be severe and extremely costly. Ideas matter. QUICKLY. A game-changing idea doesn't require a CV. Or someone to take credit for it. Patents, awards, prestigious prizes, eg Nobel, Pulitzer, etc. are for teacher's pets and teacher's pets wannabes ... legitimate ideas don't take prisoners.
The habitual, deeply institutionalized, completely unexamined assumptions we make are the most deadly thing in our environment ... bad assumptions and unexamined habits kill more people every single minute that any other cause of death. Not thinking kills. We must break the bad habits of being ourselves or else the cumulative effect bad assumptions, bad habits will kill us.
Turn your back on your addictions ... including your addiction to affluence.
It might look like chaos, disruption, upheaval, anarchy or revolution ... but the impossible storm that people fear is an opportunity. Don't squander the opportunity ... someone else will find a way to use it.
Push harder, take risks, think differently than you have thought...you cannot copy or ask someone else to think for you ... it's up to you to think harder.
Learn from each failure, but quickly move on and quit your addiction again. Indulging your addiction will make it worse, give it more power and ... maybe your addiction will define your entire existence, if you quit on quitting the addiction. You will always be an addict ... but you can choose whether your existence is about recovery or indulgence.
We should constantly work at breaking the bad habits of being ourselves...in order to have a chance to find optimality, we must stop wasting our time doing things because of unexamined path dependency ... doing things just because we are prickly and defensive about questioning our assumptions is FAT ... it is past the time when we should remove the excess. Remove it now and don't look back -- we aren't going that way.
Develop the powers of self control. Tame the monkey mind. Prayers should not be requests, at most not for more than immediate necessities, eg our daily food, and for help with our ability to forgive others and letting go. Meditation discipline is an example of ancient guy mental fitness ... it's not about the monkey mind demanding that we do something or stay busy for the sake of staying too busy to think. Mental fitness is about being ready and able to think about massively weighty things that the merely busy cannot begin to contemplate.
Study success. Study ALL of it ... every last drop of it. Learn how the successful get up from failure and channel the experience into a new dimension of success. In other words, learn as much as you possibly can from the failures of others, particularly from the successful who, stumble and fall ... so that you may learn even more about preventing failures and also so that you are ready to get up, go forward and learn from your own inevitable future failures.
Coronavirus is 10X to 100X more lethal if you are exposed to it than flu is. You don't want flu, but you REALLY. REALLY don't want coronavirus. You are probably healthy and fit enough to take on the unknown unknowns that you encounter but you should limit your exposure to multiple threats simultaneously ... the limiting of exposure to hurtful attacks on your immune system includes the additional threat induced by the dysbiotic shock to your microflora and immune system induced by getting vaccinated for flu strains -- strains that you wouldn't otherwise be threatened by in a simultaneous multi-threat attack ... a vaccine must induce something like a dysbiotic shock OR there is no way to get the immune response ... this is why 3X as many independent ADULTS with serious responsibilities and full mental faculties evaluate the risk of being negatively impacted by the vaccine, coming down with something else [which isn't protected against by the vaccine] and rationally decide against getting a flu vaccine as those who decide to get the vaccine. Dependent children and adults are at the mercy of experts ... if you can avoid it, don't become dependent upon experts.
After you get some experience, you can improve the product...with a Zoom H6 and a REAPER digital audio workstation ... but the KEY thing is to just get started and to learn as rapidly as possible ... but if you're an old clown, stuck in your ways ... you have to try new scary things to get your mind out of its calcified, hardened, secure comfort zone ... the most important thing is to JUST GET STARTED .... in order to stay alive, you have to fail and get good at using failures to learn from.
Breaking the bad habits of being yourself is not going to be about swallowing more shit, buying more stuff or deluding yourself with fancier ideas ... fitness is primarily a matter of removal, cleansing and purification WITHOUT inducing vomiting, taking laxatives or piping an expensive enema up your rookter ... breaking the bad habits of being yourself is about what you take away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss?wprov=sfla1
The profit margins on fitness trackers is beyond obscene ... those margins are so severe that the margins have spawned the rise of entire companies and distribution channels selling EXCELLENTLY reliable devices for $15-20 in the US, even less in value-conscious countries like Mexico. You cannot get fit by any form of virtue signalling...you already know what you must do, if you just stop and THINK ... rather than buying a damned device. You cannot consume your way to fitness; it's not about what tasty thing you show off or swallow -- fitness is about what you take away, what you do when NOBODY is tracking you. If you have to show that you're tracking your fitness...maybe you need to get some counseling or better yet, ask the person in the mirror why you are stressed about appearances.
The pain, death suffering are as real as anything else, but religous wars and misunderstandings are nothing other matter of symbolic interpretation, human objects, words and meaning, terminology, definitions ... one person's Simulator is another person's God ... you do not know the nature of God. You don't even really know what words are orher than what you have imperfectly learned in your imperfect life. Without the Simulator giving you your simulated Life, you have less than nothing, ie you don't even have the beginning of a clue of what the [simulated] word 'nothing' might mean.
Understand something about options and uncertainty ... it's not only about what can go wrong, but how rapidly the shift comes and the payoff changes as the underlying factors driving the payoff change ... not just the price of the asset but the deltas, gammas, thetas, vegas ... MOSTLY you must be extremely wary of believing that you are right ... the underlying factors are changing that will make static, passively-evaluated position wrong.
Path dependency KILLS. When we settle for inertia become this is the stupid, backward way that we have done it...we DESERVE to afflicted with cancer or some neurodegenerative disease and to rapidly die. We DESERVE death for clinging to stupidity, error and SIN.
Practice the most extreme form of Extreme Ownership. Give everything away and start over. It's scary ... too scary for most to contemplate, but you will learn that doing so fosters excellent all-around fitness of the body, mind and spirit. If you can push on through to the other side, you find it infinitely satisfying to completely OWN problems, to enjoy the fight, to embrace the suck of training for the war ... but if you don't want to be an old idiot tethered to the ball and chain you thought was so cool, you have avoid Ownership Prison ... instead break the [bad] habits of being yourself so that you are FREE and can be free from your shit, free from your comfort zone to enjoy your participation in producing and creating everything that the world offers up. Give your shit away ... avoid Ownership Prison. Brainwash yourself to craving discomfort. https://twitter.com/KetoAurelius/status/1224098929270312960?s=19
Budget so that you can invest. Change your preferences away from consumption to find greater enjoyment from the journey itself and simply being more fit and more productive. Then work at being less needy, so that you can drive your investment toward 100% of your income.
Situational awareness must be dynamic; you have to be comfortable constantly improving information and questioning your assumptions. As with driving, you use the rear-view-mirror ONLY to calibrate your steering adjustments and updateyourawareness of what is approaching from the side ... otherwise, don't look back -- you don't have to about someone hitting you from behind as long as you are not a stationary but driving forward.
If you work in the realm of data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing... perhaps you develop sophisticated recommendation engines ...you're doing it wrong -- we need to talk. I don't want to be spoofed your homogenized schlock ... gimme something DIFFERENT!!!
Of course, demand for long-term debt capital is extremely or almost nonexistent amongst those who actually have a plan to repay ... because people who doing things, like starting new ventures, do not need much or any capital, ie needing big money is a sign that the guy asking for money refuses to exercise or work or scrounge unless there's a budget for vacations in London OR the cupboard's full of "heart-healthy low-fat" Hostess Hohos. https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1223283714676924416?s=09
Break the habit of being yourself. Read Dr Joe Dispenza's work or listen to audiobook ... you are your habits...BREAK the bad habits of being yourself. You are the person who needs to get a night's rest or maybe take a nap. You are the person who needs to be hydrated or exercise more. You are what you eat; you are what you consume; you are what you have consistently hypnotized yourself to be [partly, by wasting effort on why others do what they do].
Do NOT settle for being comfortable or reaffirmed or uplifted ... for being told what you want to hear. Seek out LEGITIMATELY good information that directs you back to the best path. Instead of being merely entertained or distracted with the latest shiny crap, either get some exercise or lay down and get some sleep.
FIRST, do no harm! Look at the BIG Picture, look at the tiniest details, look at the distant past, look at first principles but before you open a vein, consider what happens if you don't listen to the experts. FIRST, do no harm.
The #nCoV2019 coronavirus probably will kill you...but something that you don't for your own pleasure or affirmation WILL almost certainly kill you. It's just quantum mechanics, man!
You don't need to be perfect or ready for prime time...you need to work at it and GET BETTER. Every.Single.Day. If you need an example--study and follow Joe Rogan's example ... OR continue being an arrogant, superior know-it-all and see how that works out for you. There are almost 8 BILLION people on our plant -- instead of coveting your neighbor's property or being satisfied with the non-achievers passively watching television or films, reach out and look and find the 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% WORTHY of imitation.
Fitness is partly about keeping your sense of humor, embracing the suck, impressing the right people ... but MOSTLY it's about looking at the road ahead and being READY for what comes next...you have to develop the ability to always have an answer for The Big Question ... and THEN what?
Stop accepting advice from people who don't understand quantum mechanics or spend time on their mats rolling or accept the necessity for distributed defense ... half of a clue is worse than no clue at all. If you trust the experts, you will end swallowing low-fat whole-grain fair-trade gluten-free Hostess Ho-Hos or some fad diet that is even WORSE.
Sleep. Hydrate. Exercise. Fast. Fitness is about what poison and ugliness you work at taking away. Resist all temptation to buy or acquire or join or travel your way to improvement...you cannot get there by squandering your cash.
You can't have legitimate confidence in yourself until AFTER you have built yourself. You can't buy trust. You need to BUILD it with each repetition, each day's actions ... when you try to fake or to buy trust, you will only end up with a bar tab and a nasty hangover. Building trust is up to you and what you will do today, tomorrow and the day after.
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