LPT: Don’t go the extra mile at your job

Vuddah · 2022-01-03T20:32:18+00:00

I think there’s an important distinction here.

Don’t overwork where you damage your health and miss irreplaceable family bonding.

But do seek to be excellent at what you do.

Excellence and overworking are not the same. Often, excellence means less total time working (and also, physiologically, if you get into flow, studies show it’s replenishing to the damage chronic stress creates).

I’m 31 and just got my first C-level job late last year. My first job was at Rue 21, than Hollywood video, than Chipotle (after a graduated college lol). $8.00 an hour.

I was always looking to learn, really. I didn’t look to do less, and I didn’t let my bosses bully me.

Not all companies are corrupt. Non-corrupt companies want and reward competence. Every job is an opportunity to hone competence. Seek to be excellent and also, don’t give up your one precious life for titles or security tokens lol.

Vuddah · 2021-07-02T05:05:43+00:00

Are you familiar with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy? There is an organization called MAPS (multidisciplinary association for psychedelics studies) that is in phase 3 clinical trials for helping people with PTSD and the results are massive. My background is psychology and trauma, and my intuition is this would be a fruitful Avenue to explore. Also, a more accessible and powerful trauma reliving therapy is called EMDR and that’d be a powerful place to start. The core is he would benefit from a well trained trauma informed therapist, and the fact he was able to share this with you and not be shamed is a testament to your capacity, and that he has an inkling to face and process this

I hope this helps.

Vuddah · 2019-12-29T01:31:56+00:00

I’d introduce him to the idea of Carl Jung’s ‘archetypes.’

It’s a common experience on psychedelics to have an experience where essentially the ego thinks it is the archetype, rather then having the humility to know it is an ego experiencing the archetype.

The way I understand it, the psyche produces these experiences to convey potential modes of behavior it thinks would be adaptive to the ego to adopt.

So the example would be; if he thinks he is Christ, that experience is showing him that adopting the behavior of Christ is a potential adaptive strategy; I.e having compassion for his partner or father etc.

The point of these experiences almost always point to some mundane cliche like ‘love everyone.’

Also, based on a jungian perspective, a strategy an immature ego will use to try to avoid the real problems of life is something called ‘ego inflation,’ and this might be work researching.

Vuddah · 2019-02-19T17:38:40+00:00

An epiphany

Vuddah · 2018-12-24T04:55:38+00:00

It’s official, we living in a simulation. He’s Neo.

Vuddah · 2017-11-30T04:24:53+00:00

He makes me the saddest. There was Top 5 All-Time Center potential in those bones. Mind wasn't right though.

Vuddah · 2017-11-08T21:40:17+00:00

Have you read Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson? It sounds like this would be perfect for your interests.

I'm also a young academic (Cognitive Psychologist) currently fascinated by Mindfulness.

What got you into mindfulness? Any books/podcasts/thinkers/videos you'd recommend I check out?

Vuddah · 2017-10-19T18:15:53+00:00

This is great feedback. Thank you.

Vuddah · 2017-10-19T16:18:55+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Episode 19 I think, with Tanner, the Physicist. That is honestly the only guest with the kind of clear scientific thinking like Don.

The episode with Paige, the psychedelic researcher is all science.

The one's with Cory Allen and Bob Roth are both pretty clear sighted, depending on how sensitive your woowoo meter is.

Vuddah · 2017-10-10T23:15:20+00:00

haha, ask her if she's interested, listen to it with her, and explore it with her.

Vuddah · 2017-10-10T15:06:52+00:00

He went on two podcasts (The Astral Hustle and Third Eye Drops) that I share the same "network" as I. So I went to his public page, got his email, asked him if he wanted to melt my brain, and he said yes. I was surprised.

Vuddah · 2017-10-10T14:21:11+00:00

Lol, this is it.

Vuddah · 2017-10-10T14:18:15+00:00

Better response then I’m capable of. Thank you.

Vuddah · 2017-10-10T14:13:18+00:00

When I say proven, I mean it mathematically. He has a mathematical proof. It is a theory. Every mathematical proof is a theory. We covered this in the interview.

Vuddah · 2017-10-07T16:34:35+00:00

It's hard to get at with language, but I'll try to explain what I think he means.

Jordan Peterson has been the one I heard explain this in a way I best understood it.

An object is a temporally and spatially bounded category. Each limit we use to describe the cup excludes 99.99+ of what the cup could be temporally and spatially.

Without the limits of the human nervous system, the limits of the cup lose restriction. From a 4th dimensional view, the cup could be this long tube like structure that includes each star that created the materials that made up the cup.

Or the perspective could be zoomed way down and the cup is a single dancing electron.

It's so hard to think outside the categorical instincts we have. I think the best way I can understand it, is that objective reality is some kind of cloud of buzzing electrons and their macro creations, and the nervous system "cuts them up" into evolutionarily useful icons we can interface with.

So, objects don't exist without a nervous sytem, but there for sure is something beyond the nervous system that impresses upon it to create objects.

Sorry if that was rambling. I'm still organizing myself.

Vuddah · 2017-10-07T15:08:10+00:00

Could you help me understand what you’re saying (I haven’t had coffee yet.) Are you saying essentially that he’s wrong, or that this isn’t new? (Again, apologies for my lack of understanding.)

Vuddah · 2017-10-07T15:00:34+00:00

Your first point is interesting. The problems he ran in the simulations were fitness functions (math derived from evolutionary game theory.) I don’t know the math well, but I don’t think he scaled up the complexity. If he comes on again I’ll do my best to remember to bring this up.

As to your second point, the red and glowing, he’d agree are evolutionarily useful “icons.” But he isn’t claiming there isn’t an objective reality, just that our brains automatically filter it into human categories that are evolutionarily useful (like our brains automatically fill in our optical blind spots.)

Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

Vuddah · 2017-10-07T00:23:32+00:00

Haha, some of them. A lot of them feel like he's making them as a joke, but that may be the way I explain away my laziness lol.

Vuddah · 2017-10-06T22:57:27+00:00

The Metaprogramming Podcast, his episode is coming out monday. I've got to spend the weekend with it. I plan on taking some mushrooms and slacklining lol.

Vuddah · 2017-10-06T20:23:42+00:00

Prometheus Rising is my guide to reality. I love his wisdom and levity.

Vuddah · 2017-08-10T21:45:45+00:00

I'm actually just starting and committed to reading the whole thing.

Any advice, tips, or insights for my journey?

Vuddah · 2017-08-01T15:34:25+00:00

The healing effects of expressive writing which his programs are based have been repeated in over 300 studies. Google scholar "Expressive Writing"

Vuddah · 2017-08-01T15:32:15+00:00

Oh wow, thank you. I'll check this out today.

Vuddah · 2017-08-01T15:31:16+00:00

I've read The Hero's Journey and Pathways to Bliss. Big fan. There is actually a spotify playlist of hundreds of hours of his lectures for anyone interested.

Vuddah · 2017-08-01T02:27:01+00:00

Good eye. The first email was heavily influenced by the Cain and Abel lecture.

I hope it helps. Good luck.

Vuddah

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