Don't become more productive. Do this instead.

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Roughly speaking, there are two paradigms of science:

Reductionism and Holism.

Reductionism considers that breaking down any system into its constituent parts is the best way to understand it fully.

In this paradigm, all systems can be fully reasoned only with reference to their elementary parts. The whole is just the sum of the parts.

Holism understands something in reference to the ecosystem it belongs to and the relationships between its constituent parts. To a holist, the whole is more than just the sum of the parts.

While Reductionism doesn't care about the relationships between the interconnected parts within a system, Holism uses those as the core reference for its analysis.

Why does this matter?

7 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #LevinSavesAmerica

We're In Historic Real Time

Today's work will have even more moving parts than usual. But one part more important than any other is last night's @marklevinshow's historically transformational

How to vet a woman. Qualify her by setting your standards.

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If you want to vet a woman properly, you need to separate two components that makes up who she is;

Macro scale - her deep values that make up her belief system.

Micro scale - her everyday habits & behaviours.

Macro cannot be easily modified, the micros can.

A woman's belief system in life takes one of two pathways,

she either chooses a path of independence, where her values shape around it,

or she chooses to seek femininity.

One directly conflicts with the other. The more independent she becomes, the less feminine she is.

Obviously you want a feminine woman. And that would mean to vet how far she is willing to go in her line of career. If career ascension is her aim, her belief system does not align with yours.

Her career must stop somewhere for her to be able to regain her feminine nature.

Determine how agreeable she is. By default, all women are more agreeable than disagreeable.

That means a woman who's gone out of her way to become disagreeable (for example career ascension) is a red flag, unless circumstances justify it.

#MakeAbleistsUncomfortable if you think giving money to charities is more "legitimate" and "safe" than giving money directly to any of the many disabled people on here begging for our lives, for freedom from abuse, for needed mobility aids, etc, that's a problem.

And it is linked to the idea of fraudsters scamming the welfare system; that idea has created a deep association between disabled people desperately asking for help, and greedy fraudsters. It has deepened the already-extent idea of the "deserving" and the "undeserving", as well

as the idea that charities, organisations, the government, etc - in short, mostly non-disabled people - are qualified to decide who really deserves money and support, that they should be authorities over us and have the power to determine what we have access to and what we don't.

It's ok to support charities and organisations, so long as you've actually done your research (listening to what disabled people say about them) to ensure they're good. I'm not saying you have to give to people asking for money. I'm just saying that if you have some deeply held

conviction against giving money directly to people in need, just in case they're scamming you (which charities might also be doing, for the record), that's likely based in some ideas that have already been harmful to so many disabled people in so many ways.

Optimism vs Pessimism

This was the difference between me and my husband.

And it IS a choice.

That doesn't mean it's as easy as choosing, but it does mean every step you take is down one or the other path, and you can choose each step.

Pessimism is seeing bad things as Personal and Permanent. Reverse for good things.

Optimism is the opposite: bad things are caused by things that are external and changeable/fixable.

Optimism looks at the journey to improvement.

Pessimism is *solution avoidance*.

My optimism has been a Light that I shine in the world.

A light that tends to make those around me happier, and more hopeful.

I love shining this light, and bringing out that happiness in each person I touch.

But with my husband (and even my kid) that Light doesn't have this effect.

He thinks it's me trying to tell him how to feel.

But it's me trying to help him see the beauty in the world by calling attention to it.

Pessimism also seems to be involved in *heirarchy*.

He thinks I think I'm better than him. I don't feel that way at all.

I look at our sameness, not our differences.

Optimism might also be that: looking for sameness, working to achieve sameness by learning or teaching.

Thread: People love to rag on Nate Silver for his arrogance & they should, but he's merely an example of a larger issue that the web has made it easy to draw inferences from data without knowing the context in which it lives. 1/x

Alexander Pope's warning that "a little learning is a dangerous thing" has never been more true than an age in which we can obtain information about anything without being able to understand it.

Having data doesn't mean you can use it.

Western society has a very significant problem that expertise in one area is often conflated with expertise in others.

Men are the main culprit. We have been socialized to think we know more than we do. There are many studies showing this. Here's one:

Not only do men think we're smarter than we are, we also overestimate our own attractiveness:

Male overconfidence has lots of negative implications for society. The biggest is that too many men in media have amassed followings by speaking confidently about subjects they don't understand.

Nate Silver finds Donald Trump appalling, but his shtick isn't all that different.

if you’re depressed, open this

just because you can’t find your happiness today doesn’t mean you never will

maybe you had to go through darkness before you can appreciate the light

so far, you’ve survived 100% of your worst days.. this too shall pass

it’s okay to struggle, you’re doing better than you feel like you’re🙂

How to find the motivation to do something.

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I lean heavily towards psychoanalytic theory & Nitzschean philosophy.

That means with regards to this thread,

I believe not everyone has the ability to be motivated. And those that do, have multiple personalities constantly affecting their motivation.

Ill address accordingly.

Nietzsche believed not everyone can achieve an aim,

that they lack self-determination; which is a combination of self-control & self-legislation i.e

the ability to write laws in place that will help attain an aim while suppressing desires that directly/indirectly disrupt it.

This thread assumes you have the ability to set yourself an aim that generates enough motivation for you to pursue it.

Obviously the "how" of this thread will fail those who don't possess this quality.

Some will disagree & claim everyone possesses it.

And yet still fail.

Having the motivation to do something cannot be pinpointed or quantified. There's infinite amount of reasons on what compels people to do things.

But there is room to work and generate motivation for those who have none,

(assuming they possess the trait in temperament).

Today on Darwin Does Dating. Love may be blind but it stills sees quite well. Surely that's a contradiction? How we evolved to doublethink about our partners. A thread! [1/15]

When judging the qualities of our partner, people tend to see the best in them, thinking of them as smarter, sexier, and funnier than they really are. Relationship psychologists call this “mean level bias”. We see our partner through rose tinted glasses.🌹👓[2/15]

At the same time, people tend to have a really accurate view of the relative strengths and weaknesses of their partner. They’re able to recognize when they are stronger than they are funnier, smarter than patient, and so on. This is often called “tracking accuracy”. [3/15]

So, there’s an elephant in the room here🐘. People appear to both hold accurate and inaccurate views of their significant other. A bit reminiscent of Orwell’s “doublethink” in 1984 - the idea that people can learn to sit comfortably with contradiction in their heads. [4/15]

Dig deeper and we find that these two judgments appear to have different functions in relationships. Let’s start with mean-level bias. First of all, it’s quite variable, and much larger among those satisfied with their relationships (at least in the early stages). [5/15]

There is this inertia that most people in business who think they are successful have that prevents them from acting on things until it is too late. It is why they are caught unawares by change.

I read ”Only the paranoid survives” and I am seeing it play out in real life again.

Constant paranoia doesn't mean acting like a crazy person or even a mean and greedy person. It means that you are constantly aware that adverse change can make you irrelevant very quickly. The speed of irrelevance is much faster now and it largely depends on team types.

Some teams can be deluded. They believe too much in themselves because of past glory that it clouds their ability to see future danger. When the unexpected finally happens, they turn on each other and blame themselves and abandon the ship. They have always been living a lie.

Some teams can be totally ignorant of what is happening around them and can have tunnel vision. They end up working on products that have become irrelevant before they finish. They still believe somehow that others will adapt to them and csnf understand why failure happens.

Some teams can have extreme keyman risk. One person knows most of what needs to be done and nothing works well when that person is not in the picture. This type is more prevalent than we can imagine. Once one person takes more initiative, others just become passive.

#AYA

1. Beloved Ones Of My Heart!

With A Breath Of Sacred Light, I Observe And Bow At Your Ongoing Perseverance To Find The Path Of Freedom! Since The Arrival To The Earth School, You Have Done Your Best To Learn And Grow Through It All!

For the Time limited hustler who strives for wealth and freedom, you have 2 choices to make

1. Increase the Value of your Time

2. Completely separate the money you make from the time you spend

Pick whichever sounds nice to your ear before you continue reading this thread

I'd like to

1. Increasing the value of one's time is the realm of very successful business practitioners and self employed men

Musicians, footballers, doctors, etc

Wizkid can get paid millions for a couple of hours

Messi gets paid thousands of dollars for 90 minutes on the pitch

But there's a caveat...

In going down this route, one has to be AMAZING at what they do

What's worse?

Even if you're the best at what you do, other people still get to decide what your time is worth...

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

Perhaps All Reading This Deserve A Little Cheering Up!  We Send Love In High Vibrations To You As You Celebrate New Beginnings!  It Would Not Be Accurate To Extend A 'Happy New Year',

Thread – Observations on the Past and Future

1. The following commentary received from a friend mirrors my own remembrances and thinking exactly. There are more of us than there are of them! Here is what he had to say.

Good Morning Beautiful Sovereign Paradise, StarSeeds, Earth & Galactic Guardians, Protectors, Exchequers, Executioner, Enforcers, Diplomatic Guest & Loved Ones

Historically I shared there were ZERO Elections & more as an Energetic bridge & anchor for
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I woke up realizing that there is something very wrong with thinking in categories and classifications. Many people accept the idea that this kind of thinking is at the core of abstract thought.

Douglas Hofstadter argues otherwise in a very thick (not dumb in the Brit sense) book of his ('Surface and Essences') where he argues that analogy is at the core of thinking. You'll have to read his book, specifically the last chapter to understand what he means.

The problem with categories is that they create artificial boundaries that are too crisp. But we know that when we master any subject that there is a distinct fluidity between concepts. The master seems wrong from a by-the-book novice because he keeps on breaking definitions.

Analogy making employs the tacit knowledge gained through experience to adroitly navigate between similar and competing concepts. A master has an intuitive feel of the vocabulary he employs to create expressions that have previously never been heard.

Biological brains feel their way through their realities. Something feels like red because our interactions with that thing feels the same as if it was red. We do not see the color red, we feel the color red. There is no red in this picture:

Jeff Bezos sells me a holodeck.

Not as fully-appointed as the facilities you’ve seen on television, but the part of me that reads has never been happier in my LIFE

But there are people who recoil at this

I am one of those people. I think it’s gross. The devil’s agreement one makes with this device is that you permit an enormous corporation an outpost in your backyard.

It skeeves me a little. I think it should skeeve anyone.

It’s in your house, it’s on your network, it’s handling your data:

A multi billion dollar company.

Hoovering up data about the things you put into your BRAIN. Explicitly. Because you want it to.

Because you need more shit for your brain. You’re hooked on feeding it now.

I put up with this revolting transhumanism—consumer cognitively parasitized by corporation—because the upsides are, well, magical.

You tell the thing what you want to read.

30 seconds later, you are reading it.

This is some Reading Rainbow ACID TRIP shit.

The convenience of summoning any book you want, at any time, even if it’s 3 AM and the book shop is closed.

No weight penalty. Nothing heavy to haul around.

The process is so painless.