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Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by makeitdouble »

hprotagonist wrote: post #70
makeitdouble wrote: post #46

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The obvious other side of that coin: of the two things we're doing at once, one of them is neither fun nor engaging. Making it the thing to 100% focus on will also mean it it's now a stronger candidate to procrastination, and just won't be done at all.

learn to find something of worth even in the mundane. they’re there.

Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience.

If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by wholinator2 »

lelanthran wrote: post #81
runjake wrote: post #63

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Same, but with brown noise[1] (not to be confused with the brown note[2]). I find it less harsh and it seems to drown out office talk much more. 1. https://open.spotify.com/artist/4H1DT9A2uoT7pTVRDSolnk 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

The white noise I listen to sounds exactly the same as the brown noise in that playlist. What's the difference?

The different "colors" of noise correspond to the altered frequency amplitudes of the random frequencies that make up the noise. White noise should be totally flat with an equal contribution of all frequencies. Brown noise has some of the highs rolled off. There's other colors like pink which have different characters.

The nature of the sound is still noise. To an untrained ear it might be hard to detect the different frequency reasponses and it is highly dependent on the quality of speaker you're listening to it on as each speaker imposes a frequency response curve on top of the noise itself.

If you want to detect the difference i'd recommend wearing headphones and switching back and forth between the two. There, you should be able to hear a difference assuming it's actual brown noise.

I use a website called mynoise.net which allows you to select from a variety of noises, one of which is white noise. The key to mynoise.net is that it includes an equalizer that allows you to "tune" your noise to the environment. When working in a loud library i will sit there with my headphones and mynoise.net on white rain and pull each equalizer knob up and down until it perfectly covers the noise around me. I do that for the entire frequency table and I've got a perfectly tuned white noise/sound blocker for the people's voices around me. It's honestly amazing

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by hprotagonist »

makeitdouble wrote: post #91
hprotagonist wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

learn to find something of worth even in the mundane. they’re there.

Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience. If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by makeitdouble »

hprotagonist wrote: post #93
makeitdouble wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience. If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete.

What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by hprotagonist »

makeitdouble wrote: post #94
hprotagonist wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete. What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.

i am not quoting any of that

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by weiliddat »

hprotagonist wrote: post #93
makeitdouble wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience. If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

I heard that speech when I was much younger and didn't understand it. Now, going through life in my mid-30s, not finding much "greater meaning" and trying to get through things, it's a really good reminder. Thank you

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by weiliddat »

makeitdouble wrote: post #94
hprotagonist wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete. What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.

It's David Foster Wallace's This is Water

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by weiliddat »

andrewpolidori wrote: post #85
hprotagonist wrote: post #70

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learn to find something of worth even in the mundane. they’re there.

This is good advice, if doing dishes is boring, procrastination won't help it'll only make it worse. Taking pride in a dish well washed and a clean kitchen/living space makes the task worth it.

Also, doing boring necessary things are a bit like walking. It gives your mind space to think while keeping your body busy. Unless of course, you can't live with your thoughts.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by hprotagonist »

weiliddat wrote: post #96
hprotagonist wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

I heard that speech when I was much younger and didn't understand it. Now, going through life in my mid-30s, not finding much "greater meaning" and trying to get through things, it's a really good reminder. Thank you

“the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.” gets me every time.

from Auden:

“Not to lose time, not to get caught, Not to be left behind, not, please! to resemble The beasts who repeat themselves, or a thing like water Or stone whose conduct can be predicted, these Are our common prayer, whose greatest comfort is music Which can be made anywhere, is invisible, And does not smell.”

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by makeitdouble »

weiliddat wrote: post #97
makeitdouble wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete. What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.

It's David Foster Wallace's This is Water

Thanks, I wanted to get the wider picture and completely failed to reach the original.
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