A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

Post by anileated » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 3:29 AM UTC

MichaelZuo wrote: post #121

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I do not know what you mean. What I described with regards to agriculture is how it worked historically with communities growing stuff for themselves or to sell at a local market. I encountered leftovers of that personally growing up. People could work hard in planting/harvest times during summer and in winter do mostly nothing except maintenance and such. I am not talking about commercial industries which may well b…

It's not all rare for certain workers to to spend 14+ hour days, 7 days a week, for multiple weeks straight, without any breaks. And they do this every year, year after year. And they can still live to their 80s. The claim that a long period of rest is always necessary in-between 100 hour work weeks is simply not true.

Post by anileated » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 7:15 PM UTC

groby_b wrote: post #107

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Nobody works 100 hours a week.

Video Games industry survivor here, chuckling at the low number ;) Yes, people do. It carries potentially huge personal costs, but if people are passionate enough, they absolutely will risk that. (Mind, I'm not saying this is a good idea, at all, but merely that it happens) At least in the cases I did, it was usually a 9 month gruelling sprint at the end of a ~2.5-3.5 year project. Followed by people lollygagging abo…

Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:48 PM UTC

anileated wrote: post #123

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> Are there people who just do not need any of those things? Yes. That would have described me very well at one point in my life. Coincidentally, it was at the time I was running my first (unsuccessful) business.

Did you at least still participated in social media and such, or it was literally just work? If it was just work, do you now think it was a good idea to ignore everything in life except work? I.e., you thought you didn’t need those things and you actually didn’t need those things, vs. you needed them but you thought you didn’t and it caught up with you eventually.

Post by anileated » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 1:04 AM UTC

MichaelZuo wrote: post #125

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Physical work? Maybe, if the person is fit and the work is sufficiently easy. Creative innovative mental work? In these amounts it will fuck you up.

I've met at least 1 person capable of doing 'creative innovative mental work' on a similar basis. Making categorical claims over billions of adults is simply incorrect.

Post by timewasterthrow » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 7:55 PM UTC

bagacrap wrote: post #114

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I actually think its better than rolling a 50 sided die. That was me just being nice about it. I think if you actually actively work with the goal of making it to the NFL, your odds are even better than 1 in 50. For example, sprinting times are atleast looked at. How often have you heard of a highschool or college athlete hiring a running and sprinting coach? I assure you its not very often. (my college gf of 7 years…

A running coach is not going to turn you into Tyreek, it's just going to be a waste of money. All the people you claim just didn't want it bad enough were realistic enough to realize that. Obviously, if this were a career path available to anyone who bothered to hire a coach, it wouldn't pay millions of dollars.