Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable
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Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable
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#3Thanks for reading and sharing what you learned in Indistractable. Glad it was helpful!
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#4I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange life in this context to try to re-capture some sanity.
Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return naturally.
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#5I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange life in this context to try to re-capture some sanity. Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return…
Stuff like this is useless for families. See his schedule. 7-830AM, time for "journaling"? Laughable. Try:
0600-0800 handling a bunch of small, very active and loud kids while doing laundry, kitchen, making breakfast, preparing lunch, dealing with constant messes, clothes.
0900-1200: deep (?) work, while constantly knowing you need to do like 12 baskets of laundry.
1200-1215: "lunch"
1215-1300: dealing with issue at school and sick family members.
3PM: "jimmy" comes over and poops his pants, sticks hands in poop and draws on walls.
1700: everybody is home again and the madness only now begins in earnest.
2000: "me"-time.
2100: winding down and preparing next day.
2200-0600: catch like 6 hours of sleep becayse of screaming baby, pissed pants, nightmares, whatever. All at once sometimes.
Good luck with your "brazilian jiu jitsu".
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#6I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange life in this context to try to re-capture some sanity. Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return…
Self-employment is the only answer I have seen provided. From memory, some people said they were able to transition into it, some others implied they felt they only had the chance at contract work due to a long onramp they made for themselves working at it earlier in their life. Hopefully we'll get some anecdotes.
Well, I suppose there is teaching your children discipline; depends on what you mean by whimsical demands.
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#7Not a bad read, probably the most succinctly worded self-help piece regarding time management that I've seen so far. I'm still not convinced I have to live like that. The site is ironically called sovereign-individual, yet the author seems to have every minute of their life bound by a schedule. Is that our ultimate purpose as humans?
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#8Not a bad read, probably the most succinctly worded self-help piece regarding time management that I've seen so far. I'm still not convinced I have to live like that. The site is ironically called sovereign-individual , yet the author seems to have every minute of their life bound by a schedule. Is that our ultimate purpose as humans?
You are a "sovereign-individual" if you have a tight schedule and that's what you really want.
I wish I could do that but it looks like I can't without meds or a higher purpose (or something that motivates/obsesses me).
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#9Not a bad read, probably the most succinctly worded self-help piece regarding time management that I've seen so far. I'm still not convinced I have to live like that. The site is ironically called sovereign-individual , yet the author seems to have every minute of their life bound by a schedule. Is that our ultimate purpose as humans?
You are a "sovereign-individual" if you have a tight schedule and that's what you really want. I wish I could do that but it looks like I can't without meds or a higher purpose (or something that motivates/obsesses me).
The question is why would they want to live like that? Are they still in control, or is it our capitalist society's firm grip on our lives that tells us we have to become ever more efficient, ever more robot-like?
It's a serious question about the meaning of life. Do we want our societies be run like Toyota factories?
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#10Mikeyman here has a point, in fact