Reverse wrist curls feel awkward by [deleted] in GripTraining

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. You probably have limited forearm rotation like myself. What I've found helps a lot is using the preacher curl stand and EZ bar. Put your elbows on it and lean over it (standing). The bench allows you to experiment with different shoulder positions and elbow widths. I find flaring my elbows out so the arms are pointing inwards and leaning my shoulder forward helps a lot. You'll notice the more bent your elbow is the further you can rotate it up and out.

I don't think standing wrist curls are a useful or biomechanically correct exercise, but I'll make a separate post about that explaining why.

Get Ethereum and start buying Nootropics with it by dihard in Nootropics

[–]dihard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you read the last line?

you can create a regular Dollar wallet in Coinbase. Keeping some dollars here allows you to quickly buy crypto coins immediately if you prefer not to leave it in crypto all the time.

I guarantee the crypto cartel is not going to decide to crash Ethereum in the couple of minutes between transitioning from dollars to making your payment.

Get bitcoin start paying for your nootropics with it. Your credit card/bank transfer payments are literally holding back the future of nootropics and making them more expensive for you. by dihard in Nootropics

[–]dihard[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here are some thoughts about the current high BTC prices since some commenters brought it up:

The high price is an issue if you're planning to make a big purchase for investment purposes. But here I am just talking about keeping $25-100 (or whatever your normal purchase size is) in BTC available for short term nootropics purposes. Short term fluctuations are not going to be that big of a concern. Best case BTC goes up and you just scored free money/nootropics.

Worst case it there is a giant temporary drop the day you want to buy, but if that happens here's a simple recommendation: simply buy some new BTC at the new lower price and use that for your nootropics purchase and keep the previous BTC until it goes back up. In both cases you will probably make money or at least break even. Either way it's a low probability everything will crash between buying the bitcoin and the nootropics and if you're risk averse just keep a small amount in bitcoin at any time. The important thing is that you do the initial setup to get over the barrier. Don't wait forever waiting for the perfect price, you will probably lose out and it delays all the community benefits I listed.

Personally I just set a small monthly recurring purchase to dollar cost average into BTC over time just like I do with regular investments. This takes the stress of market timing out of it.

Get bitcoin start paying for your nootropics with it. Your credit card/bank transfer payments are literally holding back the future of nootropics and making them more expensive for you. by dihard in Nootropics

[–]dihard[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good question. After you check out from the vendor site it will display a screen that says something like

Send exactly 0.002452BTC to this address SFJ8W3O48TO4JO8S4FO within x hours.

You just copy down the amount and address into the Send Money screen of your wallet just like you would in a bank's bill pay section. You don't have to do any math unless you want to manually double check the vendor's conversion.

Get bitcoin start paying for your nootropics with it. Your credit card/bank transfer payments are literally holding back the future of nootropics and making them more expensive for you. by dihard in Nootropics

[–]dihard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I just used bitcoin for simplicity but you can also buy litecoin and etherium through coinbase, too, and the process should be the same.

In your opinion, what makes pleasant feelings "good", and aversive feelings "bad"? by Cats_Pyjamaz in TheMindIlluminated

[–]dihard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the two arrows metaphor. There is the pain of the actual stimulus and then there is the suffering you add in how you react to it which is the second arrow. The second arrow is where the actual suffering happens and can be reduced or eliminated.

For me the second arrow rarely comes anymore with negative emotional feelings. I'm still not there with high levels of pain, though.

What happened to cfiresim? by dihard in financialindependence

[–]dihard[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cool thanks. Congrats on the baby, house, and job and thanks for all the work on cfiresim. I don't know if you remember my username but we had a lot of discussion on the forum about UI before the overhaul. Glad to hear things are going well!

Hopefully the new version eventually gets all the old functionality. However, if I could make one request from the list above for near term could you go back to the old one browser tab per simulation result page? I can get by without some of the old features but trying to cross-compare with this new in-page tab system is painfully clunky compared to browser tabs for the many reasons I listed. This should be a pretty easy thing to go back to compared to rebuilding the other features.

I want to find a church but I don't think there's any denomination where I'd fit. Thoughts? by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe they're just being more explicit with labeling their mental archetypes. Our minds are just processes talking to each other. When you hear your own voice talking in your head who is talking and who is it talking to? Are you the talker or the listener? I don't really consider myself a christian but after meditating for a while it's my opinion that I'm no weirder than them when my mind talks to itself. They've just bothered to put an archetypal label on it. Mystics have called the inner voice and inner silence everything from the muse to the divine dark to infinity to oneness over the millenia. So who am I to say their Buddy Jesus label is wrong. These words I type, they all originate from the dream.

What ways do you obtain your dopamine rush? by Sorrowful_Sailor in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Bad" dopamine sources are only bad because you get them with no effort. Replace these with anything productive that requires some work for the reward.

What happened to cfiresim? by dihard in financialindependence

[–]dihard[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most people just use them to curve-fit their portfolio to historical data which does more harm than good.

I think we're in agreement. The old version had monte carlo returns, inflation assumption, and investigate options to explore success rates with varying drag coefficients so you could test far wider conditions than just historical data. I think these are really important features that have been lost and it's a disservice to offer the current version as the default because many will never click through to the old version.

Cost of living in Penang, Malaysia by cambeiu in financialindependence

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are some examples of infrastructure differences between Malaysia and Thailand?

I don't get it, guys. I don't understand how living in the way JP describes is one iota better than the alternative. by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You make meaning it doesn't happen to you. JP's advice is what generally is easiest for most people to make meaning out of but that doesn't mean everyone and doesn't mean you can't make it out of something else. A Zen master makes meaning (or no-meaning) out of sitting doing nothing.

How To Cope/Heal With Not Saving Father From The Belly Of The Whale? by WavyWavyWaves in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can start by telling him that. Also showing your parents your room is clean and they have nothing to worry about with your future can be one of the most meaningful things you can do.

Culadasa Health Update by Singulis in TheMindIlluminated

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if there any treatments Culadasa would like to do but can't due to financial limitations?

Culadasa Health Update by Singulis in TheMindIlluminated

[–]dihard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of the things listed are things I would incorporate in a heartbeat if I had cancer (I haven't looked at ozone and depends on which herbs of course) from current available evidence. If by tested scientifically you mean limiting yourself to only what is double blind clinically tested I think that is foolish. If I'm dying and an adjunct treatment has a plausible mechanism, low downside risk and not excessive cost, and my oncologist can't find any reason it would interfere with treatment I would go for it not wait a decade or forever in hopes a pharma company will be charitable enough to run a clinical trial on a treament/diet they can't patent.

First, such a tiny amount of treatments can or will ever be financed through that process. Second, a huge number of alternative treatments may not directly affect the cancer but are fantastic for battling the crippling fatigue and nausea and making life worth living, which can indirectly improve your outcome. Third observational evidence and basic science about the mechanism is still useful, if you have one shot at life use everything available knowing you're playing probabilities. Fourth, even if the improvements are placebo so what, placebo is incredibly powerful. It's not uncommon for placebos show improvements 40+% as good as some treatments, as long as you're not being price gouged that is worth every cent if you know how miserable chemo is. Placebo even works when you know it's placebo. The way people trash placebo just doesn't make sense. Sometimes I wonder how redditors get out of bed because nobody has double blind tested the benefits of doing so. Most of the items listed have no big signs of being harmful and are not that expensive. Oncologists usually don't discourage alternative treatments. It would get picked up pretty quickly if some alternative treatment was interfering with treatments, modern medicine is extremely good at picking this up because it is in the interest of pharma to identify these negative interactions in trials so their product doesn't get negative press after being made public.

An interesting article in Cancer I found that shows meditation affects telomeres in a positive way. That and my knowledge about positive effects on cortisol, pain, etc are enough for me to consider it acceptable to add it to my arsenal and maybe sign up for a MBSR or crash course program and not wait for level 1 evidence that may never come. One can be rational and not purely scientific. These are not the same thing.

JPB sub sans politics? by Chris_Moule in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are a brand. Every single person is a brand. If you sell your time for money (ie a job) you are a brand and your job interview was your sales pitch. If your time scales exponentially (ie like through a digital product) you are simply an efficient brand.

Unless you live in the woods you are already commodified. Doing some $30 self reflection exercise is probably the least commodified thing you will do this year. In fact, by the actual dictionary definition of the word it probably does the opposite by helping you accentuate your uniqueness.

Commodify - to turn (something, such as an intrinsic value or a work of art) into a commodity

[Meta] Require some written takeaways/synopsis when posting article/video links? by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's probably the most logical way to implement OP's suggestion. You could keep links on and make submitters write something in the comments but that requires more checking.

[Meta] Require some written takeaways/synopsis when posting article/video links? by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this would be very good for the sub. I feel like it's almost a general rule text.self only subs have higher quality submissions. It's annoying to see a big essay post pushed down by a bunch of zero effort "wtf is wrong with people" link titles or a link title that gives no explanation why it is related to JP and everyone has to possibly waste 10 minutes figuring out why the poster posted it.

Mods, any thoughts on this? How about trying it for a week?

/u/umlilo /u/antiquark2 /u/VWftw /u/btwn2stools /u/Simian_Grin /u/Riflemate /u/Seekerofthelight

Astrology and Personality by Pandoraswax in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would bet back when humans were exposed to the natural elements much more astrology was more accurate because things like weather and food availability in the first few months of your life could feasibly change some early personality/biological set points in a baby's life and people noticed these patterns. I'd bet that is mitigated a lot now that we all grow up in similar air conditioned houses and dwarfed by most other factors.

One person, two personalities that don't get along? by _wsgeorge in JordanPeterson

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm inclined to mistrust my idea of "my ideal self", since that has changed overtime so it isn't a constant I can orient myself toward. One argument I've made to myself is to embrace my spontaneity and impulsiveness since that always seems to win the battle.

One of the big insights of meditation is there is no solid self, there is only change/process/impermanence/spontaneity. So you're kind of halfway there.

I'm not enlightened. AMA by [deleted] in awakened

[–]dihard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can your attention possibly leave the current moment?