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  1. Feb 2024
    1. 06:28 TLDR 1. Style is a lifestyle reflection of who you are 2. Good style requires understanding self 3. Bad style is trying to be something that its not

    2. 02:42 Clothing should be a creative expression. Men tend towards pragmatic clothing

    3. Find Your Fashion Style In 3 Steps (an evidence based guide)
    1. Different types of notes and use cases
    2. Can they really do all of them at once? While some may come close and do well enough, the added complexity and overreach of all these functionalities may be diluting the base power of what the zettelkasten is capable.

      Trying too many things with a Zettelkasten makes it worse. Adopt simplicity.

    3. While it can be used as a productivity tool specifically for writing, some are adapting and using it (and tools built for it) for productivity use writ-large. This includes project management or GTD (Getting Things Done) functions. Some are using it as a wiki, digital garden, or personal knowledge management system for aggregating ideas and cross linking them over time. Others are using it as a journal or diary with scheduling and calendaring functions tacked on. Still others are using it to collect facts and force the system to do spaced repetition. These additional functionalities can be great and even incredibly useful, but they’re going far beyond the purpose-fit functionality of what a zettelkasten system was originally designed to do.

      The ZK is a simple system. It isn't't a Second Brain. Nor is it GTD. Nor all the other things that people sometimes use it for. I have held this opinion for a while, and it is reassuring that Chris holds the same opinion.

    4. Zettelkasten Overreach
    1. during periods of stress or illness, you may feel an increased need for sleep.

      Oversleeping can be a result of stress, depression, and other (mental) illnesses.

    2. Physical Side Effects of Oversleeping
    1. Lewis Hamilton will make a shock move to join Ferrari in 2025. The Guardian understands that the seven-time Formula One world champion has agreed a deal with the Scuderia that is set to be announced as soon as Thursday evening.

      Announcement to be made on 2024-02-01 Thursday evening

  2. Jan 2024
    1. The Boy Who Lived came face to face with Lord Voldemort precisely seven times in the Harry Potter series. This number held a lot of significance throughout the series—there are seven Harry Potter books, Voldemort created seven Horcruxes, a wand costs seven Galleons, and the list goes on and on.

      7 is an important number in HP. Also, just an important number in general. Look at the 7 deadly sins, f.e.

    2. All 7 Times Harry Potter Faced Lord Voldemort (& Why Harry Always Escaped)
    1. Persbericht Waaromislam en Daliel aan Pegida: 1 tegen 1000

      Daliel geeft 1000 korans — tegen reactie op koranverbranding van Pegida

    2. Deze actie is blijvend: iedere keer dat hij (of iemand anders) probeert een Koran te verbranden, zullen wij duizend Korans uitdelen.

      Bij elke Koran verbranding, gaan ze 1000 uitdelen.

    1. ```dataview list where file.cday = date(<% moment(tp.file.title,'DD-MM-YYYY').format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>) sort file.ctime desc ```

      Didn't work.

    2. ew, show all notes created today on daily note with DD-MM-YYYY? .t3_1689wtl._2FCtq-QzlfuN-SwVMUZMM3 { --postTitle-VisitedLinkColor: #edeeef; --postTitleLink-VisitedLinkColor: #6f7071; --postBodyLink-VisitedLinkColor: #6f7071; } Tried all the stuff I have seen, simply get an empty table. Any ideas?If anyone has a way that would link it on the graph too, that would be great. Thanks :D

      Obsidian Dataview query — Show all notes today on daily note

    1. A number of temperance organizations exist that promote temperance and teetotalism as a virtue.

      Temperance and teetotalism as a virtue

    1. SPQR, an abbreviation for Senatus Populusque Romanus (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and People of Rome"), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic.

      SPQR refers to "The Senate and People of Rome", the government of the Roman Republic

    1. 06.24 Giving into despair slips a person into his lower self. You must have hope, in dark times (Uncle Iroh). Despair is the lowest instinct.

    2. 05.44 Shame is inward looking, humility is outward looking

    3. 04.00 Humility is not thinking less of oneself, but rather less about oneself

      See 5.2 Musashi quote "Think lightly of yourself, and deeply of the world"

    4. Reflections on the Wisdom and Virtue of Uncle Iroh
    1. Podcast 3.03 - Arjan Broere - 'Ik zie dat kenniswerkers geen afspraken maken en niet normatief zijn'

      16:00 Begin van productiviteit is jezelf tegenkomen. "Zie het als een onderzoek"

    2. Ik maak gebruik van Moneybird, dat is niet de goedkoopste, maar wel fijn! Wellicht is het handig om iets meer context te hebben, ben je bijvoorbeeld ZZP-er of een andere constructie? En in welke branch?

      Joost Plattel en vele anderen op de Digitale Fitheid community gebruiken Moneybird als hun boekhoudpakket.

    1. 04:30 Use bottle of lubricant at end of reservoir.

      Doing this makes pulling reservoir easier.

      Rinse reservoir, fill halfway.

    2. 02:52 Water hardness test

    3. 0:55 Accessoires

    4. How To: Initial Setup & First Use of Gaggia Cadorna Espresso Machines
    1. 29.00 No matter what we experience(d), we can become anew. Kratos is still the man who destroyed Olympus, a monster, but also no more (see conversation between Kratos and Athena)

    2. 20.00 Masculinity isn't inward, but is outward.

    3. We Must Be Better - The Beautiful Masculinity of Kratos in God of War
    1. What Maximus meant is that Quintus shouldn't ask for forgiveness because he (Quintus) can handle the shame of his actions, and if he couldn't then he would simply act differently. Maximus essentially tells him to deal with the fact that what he's doing is shameful in both their eyes and not try to hide behind excuses.

      Quintus seems to look for forgiveness and excuses. But, he is a responsible man. He should take responsibility for his action. But, isn't there some extension to this? Doesn't the quote imply, also, that whatever burden is bestowed upon men, we can bear it? So, Quintus should take responsibility, but also could have chosen otherwise and would have been able to bear the burden.

    2. Quintus: "I'm a soldier, I obey"

      Maximus: "Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear"

      What does Maximus mean with this? Is it a jab at Quintus? Could Quintus have decided, perhaps, "to not obey", and bear his burden that is bestowed upon by nature, that anyone can bear?

    3. YOU are responsible for your deeds... not anyone else... you always have a choice

      So, take your responsibility, and accept the burden that is bestowed upon you by nature. You can surely bear it.

    1. Deep processing is the foundation of all learning. It refers to your ability to think about information critically, find relationships, make sense of new information, and organise it into meaningful knowledge in your memory.
    1. 2:00 In the mids of darkness, death, war; humans still can see light, the good, the beauty (stoic philosophy)

      Epictetus would say that there are two handle on a situation; you pick the one (see above). This also aligns to the notion that situations are what they are, it is about your reaction.

      How do you look at things? Do you only look at the bad, the ugly? Or, do you see the good, the light?

    2. 1:00 Gladiator (2000) happens during the Macromannic wars (one of the campaigns of Marcus Aurelius)

    1. 28.00 Put yourself in life situations that engage your higher self versus your lower self

    2. 27.09 be consumed by the system, or serve it purposefully

      Live in the system, don't try to change it, resisting it (Joseph Campbell)

    3. 25.00 The hero leaves the light into the darkness, at the threshold, and faces a creature of the unconscious self. (Belly of the whale)

    4. what all the myths have to deal with is transformation of consciousness

      16.57 Trials give revelations, which then transform consciousness

    5. 16.15 Heroism isn't easy. It is often denied by people (reversal of boon)

      "they come out of the forest with gold and it turns to ashes"

    6. 11:11 Heroes sacrifice themselves for something/someone

    7. 08.49 Campbell referring to Otto Ranke — transformation at birth (everyone is a hero)

    8. 06.05 "Why do heroes emerge so many times?" Campbell answers "that is worth writing about"

    9. Interview of Joseph Campbell at Skywalker Ranch of George Lucas

    1. Guts, accustomed to heartbreak and death, and empathising with the emptiness that follows the loss of a loved one (especially at the hands of Griffith), comforts her, encouraging Schierke to cry and express her emotions. He got a scalding from Godo months before; he now understands how dangerous it is to manage emotions poorly. Bottling up the pain cannot help Schierke. Guts allows her to have time to cry, and Schierke rushes to him for comfort. Her actions are childlike here, which is a change from her usual adult-like demeanour. Schierke is used to behaving older and wiser than she is, but with Guts, she learns to be a child again

      How to handle emotions — not bottling it up, letting them be.

    2. Akin to the pirates’ philosophy in One Piece, Guts doesn't set out to be anyone's hero. He's had a rough life and he lives for his own convictions, and yet somehow, people are drawn to him. Guts, regardless of what happens to him, keeps pushing forward. He had reason to give up numerous times each arc, but he never does. Instead, he uses his conviction and personal principles—initially a revenge quest but transforming into a means to restore his beloved—to propel himself through the story, and it's beautiful to read.
    3. At the same time, there is a slither of light that penetrates the dark narrative. Although the protagonists have all led fractured, traumatic lives, they never succumb to the impending desire to give up. Guts embodies stubborn perseverance, and through his struggles, the reader learns to cling onto hope.

      Throughout the dark narrative, there is a slitter of light. They never give up.

    4. Only recently when we discussed Berserk did we find a name for it: claustrophobia. Berserk makes you feel trapped, and its world is so small, and the hardships are so great, and it is so bleak and violent and unforgiving, that as a reader, you begin to suffocate with it. There is nothing you wish for more than Guts's happiness and Casca's peace and Griffith's destruction. Nothing more. It’s mind-boggling to consider just how much bad fortune Guts has experienced. Berserk is a story where bad things happen to decent people, and it can be depressing.

      Berserk makes the reader feel claustrophobic

    5. Thoughts on ... Guts, and Perseverance
    1. Akin to the pirates’ philosophy in One Piece, Guts doesn’t set out to be anyone’s hero. He’s had a rough life and he lives for his own convictions, and yet somehow, people are drawn to him. Guts, regardless of what happens to him, keeps pushing forward. He had reason to give up numerous times each arc, but he never does. Instead, he uses his conviction and personal principles — initially a revenge quest but transforming into a means to restore his beloved — to propel himself through the story, and it’s beautiful to read.”

      Like One Piece, Berserk isn't romantic. They aren't specifically anyone's hero. They have a rough life. But they keeps on pushing.

    2. Guts is a mentally broken character affected by the isolation and loneliness that he has both been cursed with and brought on himself. Despite this, he always finds a way to keep on going throughout the manga.

      Guts is broken and lonely. Despite this, he finds a way to keep going.

    3. You’re going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ll overcome this. You’ll walk again… soon.”

      Berserk is about perseverance and healing.

    4. People bring the small flames of their wishes together… since they don’t want to extinguish the small flame… they’ll bring that small flame to a bigger fire. A big flame named Griffith. But you know… I didn’t bring a flame with me. I think I just stopped by to warm myself by the bonfire.”

      Guys doesn't want to put his dreams and hopes into someone else's. He wants to carve out a path for himself.

    5. In terms of the design he looks very similar to Mordred from Arthurian legend with his distinctive black armour, though this is just speculation on my part and Miura seems to maintain he wanted a distinctive medival swordsman with no clear influence in most of his interviews.

      Guts is influenced by Mordred from the Arthurian legend?

    6. At first I envisioned Guts as a hero who can get angry. Like Max in Mad Max or Kenshiro in Fist of the North Star. I focused on how to make him angry, how to make him get revenge, and how to effectively display his appearance and gimmicks, and what resulted after that struggle was the original Black Swordsman.”

      At first, Miura imagined Guts to be angry.

    7. Guts and Berserk — A character study on human will and perseverance
    1. 45 Theoden "I go to my fathers"

    2. 31:40 True love is turning away from one's one sorrow and being happy for another's joy (Theoden and Eowyn)

      • see Musashi "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world"
    3. 05.42 When all is dark, all seems dark. Giving up hope, into despair — this is the circumstance Theoden found himself in.y

    4. 04:00 Gandalf and Theoden scene — "Not all is dark" "A ray of light shine through" (see quote from book)

    1. York street, Dublin, December 1829.

      Written in December 1829

    2. and now that such diminution has become sensible, and that these diseases seem at last to be on the decline, will your Society proceed to give them new life and vigour by encouraging (19) the use of those very substances from which more than from any other single cause these diseases spring ? Your Society will not do so ; but will rather hasten to correct its error, to abjure the narrow policy which would substitute one evil for another, and to establish itself on the firm basis of the physiological principle that substances which exercise so powerful an influence on the nervous system as to produce intoxication, whether it be the intoxication of spirituous liquors, or of tea and coffee, or of opium, or of tobacco, cannot be used habitually without injuring the health of the body and impairing the faculties of the mind.

      Society causing rise of nervous illness? (promoting tea/coffee)

    3. If the influence of tea on the human health be such as I have described, we should expect to find that there had occurred during the above-mentioned period of one hundred years an increase of nervous diseases bearing some proportion to the increased use of tea.

      Increase import if tea as more nervous disease.

    4. This is the case with tea and coffee as it is with wine and spirits. Both belong to that class of substances which produce nervous excitement of mind and body

      "Nervous excitement of mind and body" both tea/coffee/alcohol

    5. The peculiar state of mind and body which tea and coffee produce, and which I have called intoxication, follows the use of those substances as regularly as vinous intoxication follows the use of spirituous liquors. Like vinous intoxication it is modified by the habits, circumstances, and peculiar constitutions of individuals, some persons requiring a larger, some a smaller dose to produce a given effect

      Intoxication of tea and coffee differs person to person

    6. The use of tea and coffee produces in all persons effects similar in kind to those detailed in the above related cases, but differing in degree according to the constitution of the individual, the quantity of active exercise which he uses, the intensity with which his mind is employed, the quantity of spirituous liquor which he drinks, and above all, according to the strength, the quantity, and the kind of the tea or coffee taken. All these circumstances vary so much in different individuals, and even in the same individual at different periods of his life, that the effects of tea and coffee on the health are subjected to an almost infinite variety of modifications, and cannot be traced to their true causes without great difficult

      Tea and coffee as diff effects for each person (see following for description of types of people)

    7. the substitutes will be thrown aside, and the use of spirituous liquors established on a firmer foundation than ever. Thus shall a deep wound have been inflicted upon the cause of sobriety, by the very persons who were most anxious to to defend it, and with the very instrument which they used in its defence

      Reuse of alcohol (spirituous liquors) bec of tea/coffee bad — advice of society backfires.

    8. A. B., a gentleman, who like the subject of the foregoing narrative had always abstained from spirituous liquors, and who had like him indulged in the use of tea and coffee, although by no means to the same excess, gradually lost his rest at night ; lying awake for several hours after he went to bed, and seldom falling asleep until two o’clock in the morning. At the same time his appetite became bad, his spirits extremely low, he had a fixed pain in the region of the heart accompanied with palpitations, and his life seemed to be in danger. By an accident he took neither tea nor coffee on one evening, and that night he fell asleep immediately on going to bed, and slept soundly all night ; he abstained the next night, and that night also slept. He then renounced tea and coffee altogether ; his distressing symptoms disappeared, and he has ever since enjoyed sound sleep at night, and his health has been perfectly good. On one or two occasions having for the sake of experiment returned for a single evening to the use of these substances, he has on those occasions had a return of the sleeplessness and of his other nervous symptoms

      Tea in evening as disturbing sleep (see p18 and 19 personal story)

    9. 18-19 Personal story of author with tea

    10. Page 8 and 9 is blurry

    11. Page 16 and 17 is blurry

    12. that all living bodies or parts of living bodies soon become insensible to stimuli to which they are accustomed. Hence the demand for a stronger stimulus to produce the required excitement. It is in this way that the habit of intemperate drinking is most commonly formed; the stomach demanding a larger and larger quantity, or as it is called, allowance of drink, until the temperate man becomes a drunkard almost without knowing it

      Alcohol tolerance leads to drunkenness

    13. Of the intoxicating substances which I have mentioned, tea and coffee are those to which the inhabitants of this country are most likely to have recourse as a substitute for strong drink, both because the taste for them is already formed, and because their use is approved of and recommended (3) in a pamphlet lately published by your Society, and attributed to a gentleman of the highest eminence in the medical profession.

      Coffee and tea as alternative bec of taste and pamphlet by society

    14. where the prohibition of wine has been followed by such enormous excesses in opium, coffee, and tobacco, and is in accordance with the known passion of man for that high state of excitement, which for want of a better name I have called intoxication, a term commonly applied to that particular species of excitement only, which is produced by spirituous drink.

      New substances (including coffee) for higher states of consciousness/excitement — "intoxicating substances"

    15. Your Society is threatened by two manifest dangers arising from this diversity of opinion and practice. The first and lesser danger is that it will on this account make less progress in the opinion of the public, and will be the more likely to have its numbers thinned by defection ; its members adopting first one plan, then another, and then a third, and at last perhaps, dissatisfied with all, returning to their original habits.

      (danger 1) Too many replacements for alcohol — regress back to "old habits" (consuming alcohol)

    16. The other danger to which your Society is exposed is still greater ; it is the danger that habits injurious to your own health and prejudicial to the interests of the community will take the place of the habits which you have laid aside ; that the use of one stimulus will be exchanged for that of another, and that some other intoxicating substance as opium, or tobacco, or tea or coffe

      (danger 2) Replacing one bad substance with other

    17. abandoned their former habits, but they are altogether at a loss to determine what new habits to establish in the place of those which they have abandoned

      Replacing alcohol with other substances (see page)

    18. But although abstinence from strong liquors has been at all times recommended by the few, and although it has been proved to be practicable by the experience of nations, yet has it happened that in this country, down to the present moment, no effective or even vigorous effort has been made to banish these destructive liquors

      England in a drunken state (no efforts made to reduce intake)

    19. Your Society, formed with a view to the adoption of such measures, carries with it the good wishes of all men, and already deserves the double praise of having discovered where the root of the evil lay, and of having used a powerful and well-directed effort to eradicate it.

      Drunkenness seen as evil

    1. 20.00 What if isn't procrastination at all, but rather a signal you should pay close attention to?

      See Musashi on how we can work with anxiety — letting it whisper in your ear, a signal.

    2. How to beat procrastination?

      07.00 Clear goals — goals that focus on the action, not the outcome. (Very specific)

      See GTD on next-actions that make a distinction between outcomes (projects) and clear goals (Next-Actions)

      "This keeps your brain from wondering, what is the first step?"

      10.00 Challenge-skill balance. Find sweet spot where challenge is slightly more than your skill level. Too much challenge is anxiety, too little is boredom. How to tune it? (1) Lower the hurdle. (2) Compress time for a given task. (3) Define scope (What needs to be done? Why? How long?)

      14.00 Bypassing/response inhibition. Engaging in a task as soon as you are committed. Don't waver. Sleep to flow is an example.

      17.30 Flow payoff — have long blocks of focus, where the struggle to get into flow is actually worth it.

    1. A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable. Dependent variables are studied under the supposition or demand that they depend, by some law or rule (e.g., by a mathematical function), on the values of other variables. Independent variables, in turn, are not seen as depending on any other variable in the scope of the experiment in question.[a]

      Dependent variables depend upon independent variables (whereas independent variables are independent).

    1. Shanks saves Luffy from a sea beast. He shows complete mastery over his mind. First, he saves Luffy without any regard to his arm that is bitten off. Second, he directs and focuses his attention and anger at the sea beast. His anger is focused and redirected.

      "It's only an arm. It's no big deal" says Shanks

      One Piece Ep 4.

    2. Furthermore, Shanks thinks of Luffy in a dire situation, rather than anguish at his arm that is bitten off. Shanks truly loves Luffy — love that is shown when we are ourselves suffer deeply

    1. Promoting coffee as an alternative to alcohol was a tactic of the temperance movement that had begun to take hold here in the early 1800s, and by the end of the century it looked as if it might actually be working. Certainly, it was more subtle than some attempts to curb drunkenness – in Islandmagee, for example, local landowner Lord Dungannon had dealt with “the appalling number of sudden, violent and premature deaths, solely from the effects of intemperance” by the simple act of smashing up all 14 pubs on the peninsula

      Replacing coffee with alcohol was a way to combat intemperance (Temperance movement)

    2. Coffee shops are the new pubs, a friend once remarked. And he may well be right. As traditional bars struggle, coffee outlets are popping up on every street corner. Many pub landlords, especially in country areas, are only keeping their doors open in anticipation of the day someone will make an offer for their licence. Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs in horseboxes can hardly turn out the mochaccinos fast enough. Somehow, we’ve gone from ‘fancy a pint?’ to ‘see you for a coffee’.

      Pubs making way for coffee shops

  3. Dec 2023
    1. 08:00 Ryan Holiday built in a bunch of structure — as he progressed more in his career, he transitioned to flexibility.

      • See ZK on balancing Confucius and Lao Tzu
    1. 31:00 Technological advancement makes flow more important than ever. We need flow to solve complex problems. However, flow is harder to attain with tech advancing — more distractions, less focus, more information.

    2. 04:18 All flow triggers are either (a) reducing cognitive load, or (b) increasing dopamine or norepinephrine, that drive focus.

      Rian Doris people to first start reducing cognitive load. People are overwhelmed and feel like they can't take on new habits and tactics. He recommends to remove clutter from one's life. The more clutter we remove, the more time is left for flow.

    1. The mind is an information processing and pattern recognition machine that we have a certain amount of control over based on our level of consciousness. The mind is a system – containing a complex set of systems – that accepts, rejects, and uses information to aid in the goals you feed it.

      The mind holds a set of goals. It either discards or integrates incoming information based on these goals.

      • see ZK on goals and projects as information filters
    2. A routine is a set of practical goals that order the mind. A writer who moves to a new location or travels for an extended period of time will have a stressful acclimation period until their mind runs on new systems. If they can’t write well in their normal routine, they feel threatened, because “who they are” may die.

      Routines order the mind

    3. Your bad habits don’t seem worth quitting because you don’t have responsibilities (or prioritize those responsibilities) that deserve you at 100% capacity.

      Goals and projects require sacrifices. Bad habits are/need to go.

      I am currently experiencing this. I want to do a lot of fun and important stuff. Because I have clarity on these goals right now, my bad habits — gaming mindlessly, going on news rabbit holes — "have to go".

    1. 1:04:00 Build information capital and social capital

    2. 59:00 Purpose and belonging as drivers for happiness. Try to balance both. Purpose can easily cannibalise belonging.

    3. 55:00 Being dispersed over many projects makes attention random and disultory. Whereas, when you have one big focus, attention is focused. Your default mode network productivity skyrockets.

    4. 43:00 Feeling that something is off/uneasy/anxiety is intuition and not listening to it is detrimental

    5. 29:00 We structure our consciousness around goals; else we fall into entropy (Rian Doris)

    6. 20:46 Flow brings you closer to the moment; to the essence of who you are; aligning with certain activities that "fit" with your being

    7. 20:00 Flow makes life meaningful

    8. 08:30 High action sports like F1 have a higher innate rate of pregression due to their being flow, naturally, in these sports

    1. 15:00 The ring is pure evil. It takes away choice and freedom — the thing that one needs to have a moral victory.

    2. 11:00 Moral above physical victories

    3. 01:42 journey beyond our own world holds a deeper meaning that we can glimpse

    1. Not a mindless army of individuals but a team and crew of spirited and individuals led people leads to great heights. Luffy and Shanks his crew are all well rounded individuals whereas Gecko Moria wanted to build an army of mindless people.

      One Piece is about friendship.

    1. People accused [coffee] of wasting their time, when they should have been working. People also accused it of being an exotic luxury, wasting the nation's hard currency for product which has no nutritional value. This sort of connection between physiological fear of the effects that coffee was having on British masculinity [became] a vector for hostility to coffeehouses,” said Markman Ellis, a professor of 18th Century studies at Queen Mary University of London.

      Coffee as wasting time versus saving time; people should be working

      See other account that mentions that coffee saves time. Theme of time seems to be present with coffee.

    1. of energy I mean we all want to have more energy and focus and normally we hear about the concept of energy in the context of caloric energy like what should we eat and when and how much and we need to get sleep but what you're really referring to is neural energy like the engagement of ourselves that's you know uh sitting there ready to be

      28:00 Neural energy

    2. 21:40 You feel purpose in your body; it is emotional, it is visceral

    3. 20:50 Huberman his spring of life is flora and fauna memory —something that energises him

    4. 17:30 dig deep into your history like an archaeologist to find what moved you

  4. Nov 2023
    1. dat je wel erg naïef moet zijn Wil je geloven in de milde Wilders Ja natuurlijk is hij nu door de omstandigheden want ja hij ruikt de macht Hij dacht van Pol verri Dit wordt een hele andere vertoning dus ineens die 00:02:47 verschrikkelijke Islam die die ongelofelijke dreiging van de westerse cultuur de Arabië dat is ineens weggewaaid dan komen we Ens aan een ander interessant punt natuurlijk dat 00:03:00 als die als die gaat regeren daar moeten we het zo nog even uitgebreid over hebben als die gaat regeren dan zal dat alleen mogelijk zijn wanneer hij het overgrote deel van zijn politieke agenda door de wc trekt daarvan moeten toch

      Wilders ruikt de macht en stapt daarom over zijn schaduw heen.

    1. 57:00 transition from drunken nation to caffeinated nation supercharging productivity

      • see zk on Protestant work ethic and coffee
    2. 55:00 coffee was linked to politics early days (bans)

    1. 08:35 underneath manga and anime are the author his thoughts and beliefs

    2. Being yourself and not holding up this social persona

    3. 05:00 Onizuka is an attainable hero model (that speaks more to people)

    1. source: Passion Recipe Masterclass by Rian Doris

    2. 17:00 Where does passion intersect with a big problem in the world? That intersection is purpose.

    3. 16:00 passion is selfish, so, like an alchemist, turn it into purpose

    4. 11:00 passion gives dopamine (which is addictive), making us obsessed with our passion

    5. 04:00 passion creates focused attention which, in turn, creates a flow state, which creates more passion (virtuous cycle)

    1. 20:47 take on responsibility even if you are wronged or you didn't do anything particularly wrong

    2. 13:00 a competent man, even if knocked down, will rise back to the top

    3. 10:30 Maximus loses everything at the hands of Commodus "except his character"

    4. 08:30 Maximus and Commodus as symbolic Cain and Abel story

    5. 06:30 Commodus would use force and power at any cost to achieve his ambitions

    6. 02:00 Maximus uses force and power necessary but resorts to being gentle and reserves power

    1. 1:05:00 flow checklist: keeping word to yourself

      • see Allen on not fulfilling commitments as causing ambient anxiety
    2. 46:00 Creativity is state of consciousness, not perse skill

    3. 39:00 flow can be misused by people that sell courses or whatever.

      Like doping people so "they feel good"

    4. 36:00 after a flow experience, "the ego comes roaring back"

      The ego takes pride in flow and hijacks it, and then doing and saying all sorts of weird stuff

    5. 34:00 passion and purpose can become a prison

    6. 32:00 "passion and purpose gives focus for free" Steven Kotler

    7. 28:00 generalism to find the intersection for a "match fit"/passion

    8. 19:00 people teach personality at coaching, but it fails; what scales is biology, not personality

      • see idea on how copy/pasting from someone else doesn't work
    9. 16:00 brain conserves energy when you think you don't have internal control (locus of control)

      17:00 social justice folks have victim mindset

    10. 07:00 flow increases dopamine/pattern recognition

    1. 13:00 the right flow of information is sweetspot between overwhelm and being bored (too little information)

      16:00 balancing consumption and creation is sweetspot

  5. Oct 2023
    1. 52:00 habits create freedom "create capacity and space to have autonomy"

    1. 1:25:00 Structure and some order creates room for creativity, experimentation, and so forth.

    2. 56:00 Allen going on an adventure (inner and outer exploration)

      • see note on discovering oneself, getting lost, trying many things
    1. 13:00 default mode recovers glucose; nap, breaks, vacation

      Tv and such is not a break; let your mind wander in breaks

    2. 11:00 default mode is non-lineair/creative thinking (problem solving occurs generally)

    3. 12:00 depletion from energy of the brain (glucose)

    4. 09:00 task positive and default mode network

    5. 04:38 multi-tasking doesn't exist; it is "sequential tasking"

    1. 15:00 "David, you are so organised, can't you be spontaneous" GTD actually allows for spontaneous action

    1. 16:00 habits & routines as systems that we don't have to spend any psychic energy into (if designed well, can be useful)

    2. 07:00 structuring the mind with information (away from entropy), via setting a vision, which you break down further into goals, projects, tasks

    1. Very confusing video on zettelkasten.

      • reference note and literate note as separate; though I get the workflow of summarising highlights (just call it only literature or reference notes, call the highlights, highlights, or marginalia)
      • fleeting notes seen as todo (which it shouldn't)

      These add up to be a lot of "homework" for the user: fleeting notes tasks, going from reference notes to literature notes.

      • Then goes on to say that keeping two different notes (reference and literature notes) "gives him permission to not be so selective for highlighting".

      Being selective with a book (or anything you read), is actually very important. Making short annotations of what you read, be it marginalia, whatever, is a way we can subvert the homework process (because we already did the thinking as we read it).

      04:23 he says that making the literature note forces him to think about the book, but we can be more active when reading, annotating and stuff, so that we don't need to do his process.

    1. 11:00 intense suffering can become gateway to enlightenment

    2. I think MV Summers speaks of this so well: Instead of running away from yourself or avoiding yourself, you are opening the doors to your inner world, letting all the demons out, letting all the darkness out, turning on the lights in the dark recesses of your mind. ... it is a practice... a practice which requires courage...

      MV summers on shining light unto darkness

    3. 07:00 running away from a monster doesn't work after a while; it is at this time you should face it, transform it

    4. 05:35 consciously pulling out darkness/fear/terror gives more control over it (before doing so, however, you need to be conscious and aware), surrendering to it (not fighting it)

      • see zk on bringing out darkness to shine light unto it (4 section)
    1. 47:00 Piers makes the argument that Israel defend themselves (Hijab on "define defence")

      • Romans used to use a strategy in war: they would say they defended themselves, but they used it as justification to attack
    1. 37:00 solving problems/goals (projects) as creating flow (see this as challenge, seeking improvement)

      And also have a vision, which you then break down into goals, projects, etc. (Horizons)

    2. 06:30 focus on info (input/output) as building identity

    1. One of the most important of the early writers on coffee was Abd al-Qadir al-Jaziri, who in 1587 compiled a work tracing the history and legal controversies of coffee entitled Umdat al Safwa fi hill al-qahwa عمدة الصفوة في حل القهوة.[15][12] He reported that one Sheikh, Jamal-al-Din al-Dhabhani (d. 1470), mufti of Aden, was the first to adopt the use of coffee (circa 1454). He found that among its properties was that it drove away fatigue and lethargy, and brought to the body a certain sprightliness and vigour.[1]

      source on how coffee was reported to bring "vigor", "liveliness and "drove away fatigue and lethargy"

    2. In 1511, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca.[15] However, these bans were to be overturned in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Suleiman I, with Grand Mufti Mehmet Ebussuud el-İmadi issuing a fatwa allowing the consumption of coffee.[16]

      coffee bans were overturned by Sultan Suleyman I in 1524

    3. Associated with Sufism, myriad coffee houses grew up in Cairo (Egypt) around the religious University of the Azhar. These coffee houses also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo,[11] and then in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, in 1554.[11]

      first coffeehouses grew/were associated from Sufism (see history)

    4. Sufis in Yemen used the beverage as an aid to concentration and as a kind of spiritual intoxication when they chanted the name of God.[11] Sufis used it to keep themselves alert during their nighttime devotions

      (see first annotation) coffee as concentration for sufis

    5. The word coffee entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve (قهوه), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah (قَهْوَة).[2

      "coffee" stems it root from "koffie" (and from kahve, qahwah)

    6. Coffee houses were established in Western Europe by the late 17th century, especially in Holland, England, and Germany. One of the earliest cultivations of coffee in the New World was when Gabriel de Clieu brought coffee seedlings to Martinique in 1720. These beans later sprouted 18,680 coffee trees which enabled its spread to other Caribbean islands such as Saint-Domingue and also to Mexico. By 1788, Saint-Domingue supplied half the world's coffee.

      coffeehouses in Western Europe

    7. Also, in the 15th century, Sufi monasteries in Yemen employed coffee as an aid to concentration during prayers.[1]

      Sufis, coffee as aid for focus during prayer

    1. 04:30 education business as scam (bec information is not tangible)

      • information and knowledge, historically speaking, is fundamental to society and culture
    1. 10:50 prioritising education (attracting one’s own audience)

    2. 07:50 sharing what excites (writing as stream of consciousness)

      Capture as first step in value creation (see my framework wherein it starts with capture)

    1. 04:40 high highs and low lows: trauma as catalyst for growth (throwing oneself into the unknown) creates meaning

    1. 04:40 stories that give us something we could be (give hope, meaning)

      • see "a rising sun" as a fitting metaphor
    2. 02:55 death as a gift for men

      03:40 fear of death as corruption/weakening (via Melkor): seeking long life and other ways as coping (not embracing it)

    3. 00:30 sun rises when gondor arrives

    1. 04:43 Amerika probeert vrede te stichten

      • is Amerika juist niet degene die pal achter Israel staat?
    2. 04:10 hamas maakt tweestatenoplossing onmogelijk

    3. 1993 oslo akkoord: palestijns zelfbestuur