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Amphibian220

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  1. I want to say something, if you quit video games, you may have not quit the games completely. I was a fan of boxing matches throughout my youth and visited boxing tournaments. There is such a thing that the commentators call “forcing your fight on the opponent”. This is when the opponent is put into a disadvantageous position when he is going to have his ups and downs, but on the whole it is a lost fight for him. If he doesn’t find that thread, or trick how to transition the fight to a different kind, his opponent will dominate. One athlete also said that your body sort of knows what you are going to put it through, and prepares in advance to eliminate any chance of growth. This is when the athlete hits a plateau and cannot rise above a certain level. To get rid of that athletes put their bodies in shock (ofcourse they have to be sure not to cause themselves permanent health problems) Now on to your post, the stress mounted over time. Could it have been because you haven’t reacted early by changing things around or that changes have been too small? This is me thinking out loud to try and steer you more towards analysis, although you may already have figured this out. how long has it been since your last vacation Matt?
  2. Well evaluated video games. If I have been too absent minded in the day, I wasted that day. The more focused I was on my tasks, the more points I award myself. I will share something about 9 to 5 jobs from my experience. there was a moment that I mastered the generic skills required on a particular job, after what I decided to go because the job was not serving my goals anymore. 1. Don't go for a job that is below your skillset, try to bargain for a job that will not put your health at risk but at the same time will test you enough to require the best of you. This will force a good discipline and make you a healthy person. 2. Most importantly, don't lose sight of the big picture. One of the companies I had worked for overcharged its customers. My non negotiable position now is never to accept working for extortionists. 3. The red lines that you establish from the start will stick. Don't delay expressing important needs of yours.
  3. Day 62 In my first IT class in the 2nd year of high school I heard the teacher say “Computers are stupid, they cannot understand information but can only process data that is input by the user”. Data and information are distinct because information is more complex and can only be understood by the user. Data can be read by the CPU to produce an output on the screen, and the tasks that the computer can perform range from industrial use, to education, entertainment, marketing, executing sales, storing and backing up information. Now the computer that is connected to a global network is no longer a stupid machine. This kind of computer can be employed to control the user by targeted advertising. I feel a lot more control that my internet usage has gone down to a minimum.
  4. my implication was that the more technology decides things for you, the more passive you become. It wasnt so much a value judgment about people who use phones. Technology has to be dumb in that it should serve your goals, not control you.
  5. Matt, if we’d have a part in an election campaign, what sort of slogan would you come up with? I thought of “smartphone - dumb person. Smart person- dumb phone”
  6. Day 44: Self sabotaged by snacking. Snacking causes the need to get distracted by watching online sports (NBA league). New plan from Day 45 Day 45: No snacking, drinking sufficient water between meals. No more NBA league. No useless videos. Investing time in communication skills.
  7. Good statistics. Do you watch any useful videos on the internet, or are you going cold turkey on all internet videos?
  8. Interesting with how this ties in with short attention spans Matt. Short attention spans are programmed by the structure of internet. Internet is heavily geared towards advertising. Take a 10 year old kid that had no access to electronic media. If he is offended by someone, he will find it illogical to eat more food or play video games as a relief. In that case, he works without failure by looking at remedies and expressing his concerns. He needs a safe person to whom he can express his concern. He has got a longer attention span and a better awareness of the problem at that moment. You know how many of our things were neglected in the past? You see the chores that you are accustomed at avoiding and you suddenly do them CONTRARY to your habit, but by adding humour and communication into it. Suddenly you have "wasted" your day that you could have spent on day dreaming and resting. This "wasted day" repeated enough times will awaken you and make you aware of what you have to do in your life. It will embolden you and make you brave. Worked example: A person detects that the work structure is too stressful and unhealthy for him at this point in time. He knows it deteriorated over a span of a few months but he doesn't know how it happened. He may be lacking enough humour, rest, sport activities, charity and communication with family and peers. His work may be structured inefficiently with several functions that are redundant and bring no benefit to his organization. He may be ignorant of what really matters for his organization because his communication skills are underdeveloped. He is hard to understand for his team and it is difficult for him to understand what others are trying to say when they are addressing him. Because that person was wilfully ignorant and lazy about his important needs, performace severely fell after two months, but the person was fooled into thinking he wasn't putting enough effort in the job. He thinks he has to struggle "more" on the job. This has two effects: 1. It has a downward procyclical effect on awareness and attention span. He is going to increase stress on himself, shortening his attention span, becoming less aware and compensating with wasteful activities to stimulate absent mindedness. Absent mindedness will cut off awareness and morale on the job. 2. It will negatively affect physical health. Chronic untreated physical health problems will push the person to becoming complicit and make harmful habits more frequent. A warrior has to work towards long attention span analytics, carefully tracking how other people perceive him in the organization, how he treats himself throughout the day. Felt like he hasn't respected himself enough that day? He should put that scumbag habit in check.
  9. This is like a separate personal development portfolio research, I really have to try some things and attend interviews in order to see where my comparative advantage lies. I can choose new fields in legal advice (this is a model where you give limited advice online to people in need) or just try myself in completely new unfamiliar roles. This kind of probing can unlock immense potential but it requires discipline, to be in good health and a hunter mindset.
  10. Day 21: No useless social networks or websites Day 21: Investing time in communication skills. Target by day 90 - master a language (basic French) Improve fitness level - KPIs set Start online business - Financial Plan to be devised
  11. Are you doing it with a professional coach? I wanted to gain muscle mass in the past and I worked out so hard I couldn't fall asleep and caused immense pain in the abdomen. Later on I found a coach who helped me to slowly get to my goal without hurting myself.
  12. Video games and entertainment have a strong influence on slowing you down mentally and being unable to deal with unexpected situations. the greater the degree of control, the faster is the state of decay. Job with easy rewards accelerates the state of decay? Job with challenging problems irritates, but teaches the body to deal with pain of learning? Low energy reinforces the pull for high control activities. High control activities keep a person in a constant mental low. Modern economy is most taxing on the office jobs, the accountants and lawyers. They are exploited to a far greater extent than menial jobs. Interesting how casinos are needed by some to add some excitement in their lives. Casinos are an environment where lack of control and mental pressure are both present. What happens if you are frequently in limited control situations? You learn to deal with uncertainty and apply on the fly solutions. What if you no longer care about challenging work? Create pressure to find it. Mediocre goals are not worth pursuing. Cameron, would you be prepared to leave the virtual communication system and be fully self sufficient man, building your house in the wilderness and growing your own produce? The more automated the system is, the more vulnerable its members are. The less automated it is, and the greater the volatility in the system, the more powerful and self sufficient the members are. Need stimulates research. But better than that a great mission stimulates research.
  13. Welcome to game quitters, what field of work are you interested in? Number 3, I find great relaxation in repetitively kicking a soccer ball against a wall. There is a hobby tool on this website that offers a lot of different activities.
  14. Plus you are investing in long term health by skiing. Your general stamina, lungs, heart and eyes benefit from this. I remember a news report about a gaming club in China where one teenage was so frustrated with the mistakes of his teammates in a strategy game, that he literally grabbed the monitor in front of him and smashed it with his head. The picture of it was shocking, there was a huge hole in that monitor and the other players sat next to the guy were so busy with the match they couldn’t get up to check on the guy. You should have seen them, collapsed in their chairs like these lazy animals that live on trees.
  15. Remembering your NHL gaming time, you need that (1) competition and (2) group feeling as a motivator to continue going and improving. You should absolutely look for a competitive sport that you will enjoy. Im so happy you are getting married! You are the first Game Quitter whom I know who has had this success. Absolutely control your sleep. Don't go greedy, the initial losses will be overcompensated by long term increases in productivity. Food attracts us so much because it is marketed in such a predatory way. Remember that a lot of modern food is laboratory tested to be ridiculously tasty . The neat packaging adds to your cravings. I remembered James Clear’s guidance: make it less attractive make it more difficult to do OR make it impossible to do . What I did was count over a 6 month period how much money i would save if I cooked my food at home. Now the savings were an insane amount. I then considered what i could spend it on and will start tracking my savings on a monthly basis to create a stronger craving than wanting to eat at cafes. If I still want to eat, I will go for a fast cardio workout, break a sweat and that gives me the reward of being able to eat more. The best illustration about harmful habits for me is a type of plant I saw in a scientific magazine. This plant feeds on flies. Now the plants are destined to die from starvation, but because they resemble a type of food that the flies eat, many flies enter this plant and get sucked in. This is an excellent illustration of things such as cigarettes, alcohol, games and other harmful substances because they create an illusion that there is a benefit to be gained, whereas they take advantage of you and harm your health.
  16. Day 3: No useless social networks or websites. day 3: investing time in communication skill development. I had to watch a film episode about negotiating skills. I would book it as a violation of my Rule number 1 if it wasn’t directly relevant to my field of work.
  17. Day 2: No useless social networks or websites. day 2: investing time in communication skill development. Had my meals cooked from home for a change. Feel much more content as it is a money saver.
  18. Day 1: No useless social networks or websites day 1: investing time in communication skill development. Currently need to speak to my coach about increasing the weekly number of my training sessions.
  19. What a nice picture it is. During my undergraduate study my university organized a trip to a French ski resort and we had a lot of great experiences there. Tell you something, that charged me up for the rest of that academic year. Are you updating the bucket list? Its no less important than completing the goals on it. I started a list of non-current goals of my own. More like targets of opportunity.
  20. Regarding stress, are you in he habit of proactively addressing issues and cutting at the root, or being reactive to them (treating symptoms), or just avoiding issues outright? I had a gaming time followed by a time when I didn't play games but spent a lot of time thinking about them. In both of these periods, I would not address my important needs because I was unaware of them. This fueled long term stagnation. “Its not too bad” was the self deception. I took all the precautions to extend the constant low until I was out of moves. Sometimes better awareness causes you to go out and fight. When I understood that I am backed into a corner with nowhere to run or hide, I went out of my way and stated very clearly to myself and people around me what I wanted and this was not tentative, it was assertive. I then took systematic action to get to my goals and sacrificed time, effort. it also killed the low expectations in me. When i learned how much was at stake i was ready to put the lazy character in check and confront people.
  21. Your point about occasional playing I think has to do with identity perception. A person who does not consider himself a gamer and has no strong attachment, will buy a game and play it until hw gets bored when there is a lot of publicity about it. But repeating something on a regular basis is building a stronger attachment and shifting identity. Its also important to be developed in multiple aspects ( i.e. sport, communication, work, charity and family relationships) so one thinng doesn’t define you completely. Video games supply a gamer with endless problem solving and modify the brain to a very unhealthy work pattern. It is very reminiscent of how the food companies entice us to overeat by presenting something simple and functional as a way to get satisfied. Just one week away from the telephone and “fast thinking” and I started noticing actual solvable problems that were not noticed before. The brain started doing its work. In this age information is a “Jammer”. One of my observations over the last 2 years. One of the members of GQ travelled to Yukon, Canada, another went to a city in Iceland. In both cases they had no to minimal access to technology, plus they gained access to an internal spiritual resource that activates when one moves away from financial centeres that suck energy and life out of him. They related how they got clarity with what they needed in their lives, what was neglected and required mending. I will also state that in my case, digestion improved greatly. Without the crazy marketing, I just ate plain food, and only took as much as I needed.
  22. When I look in the mirror to see the deltoid, biceps, triceps, better posture etc. When I play a basketball game and recollect how my game has improved. This is my progression now.
  23. Disposable economy, disposable people. Reclaim my responsibilities. Today my message is that Exercise is more important than daydreaming. What to do if my body is sore? Jog !
  24. (2) Perception of being overwhelmed. “keep them poor!”. There are several ways of extending aspiring men’s poverty. One way is filling up their spare time with rubbish distractions. This way they lose awareness and cannot become worthy of managing organizations. Im in a job and the manager is trying to trigger fear, but the workload is impossible to do on time. I just put it back straight to the manager. Solid response, I don’t have to make excuses, but can discuss it like a man. But what would be better? set up pockets of time to switch to a work setting with better management. As soon as i start getting my bearings my worth increases and the shackles start to lose their grip. You are very accurate that it is only a perception, so hold the line and take care of your needs- health, rest, communication, support. Even watching something healthy on the internet is good if it is planned in tour diary and has no loopholes for abuse. (03) Seeing somebody else fail in a similar fashion as you but react in a cool way, maintaining their composure, will cure that very quickly. You messed up just because you messed up. And it is better to study history and plan how to have lower stress levels on a constant basis. In fact gamers mess up because they want to stay in a flow state for too long. That tires them out. When you start figuring out the important work that will open doors for you, and differentiate it from mundane work that you gradually have to move away from, you will have more strength, less stress and higher authority. The amazing answer is, you beat yourself up because the standards may be set too high or in the wrong KPIs. Sounds strange to go exercise in the lunch break huh? I did that, spent less time at the computer, cut all the crap out and did MORE actual work..
  25. Day 1 I put minimal effort into revising today because of low energy. I was unable to work out how I can become stronger. Most of my friends communicate with me online, which i am not sure is on pr with meeting with people. Meeting people requires more concentration with dress and behaviour. Watched the video on the sunk cost fallacy again. I want to build my body up and make the right career choices. I feel inspired by your team Cameron. This may be odd, but young people can be blind to things that harm them for many years. I still want to get a high from a sport which I will try to do and record my experience here. so video games put you in a state of flow but so does work and sports. But video games are the easiest to access. there is another issue, video games are a patch, a non working solution for the problems that society has created. Is there a point researching medicines for diseases that arise as a result of destruction of the environment? No. Makes more sense to tackle values and life style changes. Now there is a lot of feedback coming that men are not in charge of their families, are shirking their responsibilities, not giving due example for their children, wives, brothers. What does the society offer “Ignore the information with these distractions”. This is not coping, coping is influencing policy change. when there weren’t that many distractions, people asked for policy change. In the early twentieth century people had more rights because they were more consistent and had longer attention spans, people lose their rights non linearly as they accept more and more of innovative entertainment
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