Would you consider setting functional goals? Like gaining the ability to lift x times your body weight or run y distance in z minutes?
We are all tempted by physical appearance goals, but trust that they will come too. I’m of course not in your head so have no idea what your true motivations are, but functional goals usually produce more lasting lifestyle change.
Either way, I wish you an injury free health journey.
#grownostr
That’s a great attitude in my opinion. :)
Being excited to tell others in your life about something you find interesting or fun is much better than evangelizing something as “pure” or “perfect”. This kind of message usually turns people away.
You could say the same of viruses. We are no more virtuous simply because we claim our intentions are pure and our motivations divine.
#grownostr
Or just be glad we have this as an option for ourselves.
Others may come, they may not.
Seeking quality over quantity and maintaining a low time preference works well for me.
Please consider reading the book “Being wrong” by Kathryn Schulz. It’s very accessible and a fun read.
Wish this was required reading in schools.
Your future self will thank you. While some exercise only for vanity (and that’s better than not at all), anyone who has experienced loss of a key organ (or system or limb) will tell you that their singular wish is that they had appreciated their bodies function more while it was whole.
If given the choice to end their lives without pain or anxiety, what percentage of people do you think would still choose natural death?
I know that this is a high percentage from professional experience, but I think about this often as it pertains to the general population.
Personally, I am eternally grateful for having the knowledge and skills needed to easily and painlessly end my own life if I ever needed to. There is zero chance, if given the chance to plan it, that I will die naturally. Seems to me that this should be a basic human right though.
A fear of pain and death is after all the most basic way in which we are controlled by our puppet masters.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
#thinkdangerously
#grownostr
Step 1: Produce quality content.
Step 2: Have a low time preference.
Step 3: Stop caring about having broad appeal and instead seek to engage with quality plebs who disagree with you but follow steps 1&2.
Step 4: Personal growth>popular growth
#grownostr
Am doctor (amongst other traditionally “educated” credentials)... I buy Bitcoin. I have no Fiat.
Fools live in a Fiat world.
They may be educated or otherwise.
Anyone who cares about human suffering can live in a Bitcoin world only.
Exercise is awesome.
From a biomechanical perspective, RIP. :)
The recipe for a good insurance product is a large enough underwriting pool and a vast network of participating (contracted) providers.
If #nostr were to take off, you could do this, but it has to achieve scale first. Just one of the many ways a large network of humans is a valuable thing.
Thank you for sharing your work.
As someone who enjoys painting purely for the fun of it, I’m jealous of your talent.
Please post this to #thinkdangerously or #getoffended.
And I agree with you 100%.
I’m curious whether you have had personal experience with this as I have earlier in life.
I think I understand where you’re coming from, and I agree that difficulty and challenge can provide valuable perspective.
But where is the value or perspective for example in early onset malignancy that produces spinal osteosarcomas that impinge on a 6 year old’s peripheral sensory nerves leaving them crying in agony during months of agonizing “treatments” and surgeries because the parents couldn’t come to terms with the fact that their child was dying?
There are limits to perspective being a good thing. Sometimes life is just plain fucking awful and unfair.
Let’s hope for your children’s sake that you are right! :)
You sure seem to think you are.
I personally could never be so sure of anything as to risk someone else’s life on my “faith”. What happens if having kids is just another in the myriad expressions of human vanity and narcissism? Surely adoption grants the same purpose no?
There is no fact in science, only best guesses based on available evidence. Media often portrays scientific results as fact but media, as we know from so many other examples, is singularly stupid and looking out only for itself and its profits.
The entire basis of scientific reasoning is that there is always room for error and revision of even its most “sound” theories happens all the time. This is the singular advantage that it holds in my opinion over other “faith” based reasoning approaches.
In any event, thank you for explaining your position. I think it’s nice that even when we clearly disagree on something, we can respect each other as people.
There are many flaws with your reasoning here. The most glaring is your assertion that just because something has never been detected or measured makes it impossible.
The obvious contrary possibility is that the tools to detect dark matter simply don’t exist or haven’t been built yet. History is littered with examples of this. Bacteria anyone?
You then go on to use the very kind of logic you are trying to fault the scientific community for using by arguing for a divine force as an alternate explanation.
Have you detected God? If so, how tall is he/she? How much does a God weigh anyhow?
Sorry - I know it’s hard to think about stuff like God and children in ways we weren’t raised to, but that doesn’t make those opinions we disagree with any less likely.
#grownostr
#thinkdangerously
#getoffended
Dangerous opinion: freedom means having choices. Having choices makes many humans anxious. As a result, many humans are willing to give up freedoms in exchange for someone else’s (false) certainty.
You see this pattern most impressively in organized religion and politics.
This also explains why it is unrealistic to expect Bitcoin to reach a wide audience on its freedom merits alone. Unless they are forced to use it, most humans are just “happier” under a Fiat standard.
#thinkdangerously
#getoffended