Some days are so good I’d trade 100 normal days for them, and a few probably 1000 days
I had 100x day a couple weeks ago and a I’m having a bottom ~10 percentile day today. Remembering how outlier-good the best days are makes slightly-bad days far less bad
Interestingly every 100x day has been known about ahead of time and planned (eg selling a company, fantastic romantic moments, psychedelic-therapies)
The couple -100x days I’ve had were unplanned (eg bone-infection in a rural jungle). I’ve been lucky not to have many
Remembering how bad -100x days are also makes slightly bad days way less visceral for me. The true goods and bads of life are counterintuitively extreme everything else is practically a rounding error
I’d probably trade 3000 normal-good days for 3/19/19. Maybe I did and today is one of the days I traded. Would do it again
lol nope I was wrong, hit second jhana for the first time, in total bliss today is awesome
(I’ve been trying on and off to hit it since 2016. I was tensing my too much before, jhana should be soft and loving and happy not forced. Absorption, not concentration. It really does feel like MDMA)
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We should put heavier weights higher up than lower ones. People are more likely to hurt themselves lifting heavier weights up to arm-level, so put the lighter weights down there
Every gym I know does the opposite
So just to be clear, the way it is in the photo is how I want it. It’s not normally that way
It does look aesthetically weird though. Anyone have creative solutions?
All the people saying it puts less structural force on the rack: if all these guys in here killing themselves to get strong I expect our racks to put in some effort too
Can apparently jhana now (I think) and so far it’s the freest lunch of free lunches
Ready at all moments to be bamboozled with the catch
N=5 tries, all five complete sensory overload of pleasure and serenity when I was otherwise not feeling great moments before the sit. Feelings last ~2 hours afterwards (weaker than the sit though)
One benefit of making every day the same it way heightens your senses for small physical and emotional small changes
My knees usually feel slightly heavier up these cafe steps, did I sleep well? I usually tweet three times walking to the gym, am I less extroverted today?
My life is actually a hilarious balance between extreme consistency and extreme spontaneity. Every once in a while (4mo?) I randomly throw away everything move somewhere new and pick up entirely different hobbies and life. Then do it the same way every day until it happens again
eg I didn’t workout for a few years until a few months ago. But I’ve worked out several hours a day every day since then excepting one group retreat in the forest I hosted and one day when I was sick
It’s undertalked about how being very happy is a learning disorder. Everything is wonderful and you’re too optimistic. Great for most creation, bad for daytrading
Flip side for depression
I’m not at all convinced being too optimistic is maladaptive though. Most people I know who are too optimistic end up trying lots of things (projects, asking people out, new hobbies etc), not really updating when things fail, and eventually something works out and it’s great
It’s actually kind of ridiculous the extent to which acceptance / letting go is the solution to most problems. You can be an agentic force of nature while still accepting everything. There’s not really a tradeoff, they’re just two really good things and you can have both
My favorite part of both psychedelics and Buddhist cultures is they deeply understand this, usually through going through really hard experiences and finding out experientially that acceptance makes them like 95% less bad
I like to work on this explicitly. It feels just like weight training, where you can see your max limit go up every week very tangibly
I like to practice when I’m in a great state so I’m protected when accidents inevitably happen in the future and I’m not