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[ZackerySprague]

Interesting Video on finding your purpose by Dr.K

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHEY7CjjTI

 

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[BizyDad]

Interesting Video on finding your purpose by Dr.K

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHEY7CjjTI

Great. Now I get to tap dance around a conversion with my little one about what pornography is and what is meaninglessness.

 

[ZackerySprague]

Great. Now I get to tap dance around a conversion with my little one about what pornography is and what is meaninglessness.

Sorry!! . Recently I spoke with my brother who’s in jail and has his parole review coming up next month.

I asked him a question that I didn’t know the answer to. I told him, what’s the difference between Zack back then before my pre-Kayla relationship days, and Zack now.

He said it was because I lost my drive or my sense of purpose. My inner drive as to why I do what I do.

And if I’m to be honest he was right. I would have never thought that my brother who is. Jail would have the answer I’ve been looking for as to why I lost my drive.

He was wrongfully jailed for something he didn’t do. He was the one who gave me confidence when I was little and couldn’t stand up for myself. My sister's past history and her choices led him to be in jail. I will never forgive her for now. I have so much internalized anger for what happened.

He always knew the answer to the questions I didn’t have. I honestly looked up to him and the confidence he had.

If anything my purpose would be to be the big brother he could look up to and to him help financially secure his life, payoff my moms house, pay for his car straight out, so he wouldn’t worry about anything ever again.

And to help my little sister who has been wronged by my real father, who has literally abandoned her for her entire life.

And to never worry about money ever again. For the situation I had caused myself.

I created a phrase for myself. I say Never, Never Again. I Will Not Lose. I will see and payoff every debt I owe. I will see zeros on my credit report so that I will never have to experience the situation of seeing all my credit cards maxed when I was 25, each wanting about $500 dollars minimum and living with my parents feeling like a failure and helpless ever again.

Or the feeling of being neglected by my family.

 

[PureA]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635890677602213890

View: https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1635890677602213890


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[Xeon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635890677602213890

View: https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1635890677602213890


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Assuming this is a show for kids under 12, which I think it is, this sort of thing should be made criminal and charged under the same severity as pedophilia and sexual assault on minors. I would if I'm Biden. Crackheads, nutcases. These guys need to be in the mental hospital with the doors locked and keys thrown away.

 

[Xeon]

MidJourney v5 alpha version is out!


EDIT: Just did a quick test. Insane. Interior renderings are perfect now, maybe 99.9%. v4 had serious issues with making things look normal (e.g: chair end up having 7 legs and tables are joined at weird angles with holes).

 

[Roli]

Makes me think of @Roli 's signature

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Millions I tells ya!

 

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[Roli]

On a positive side…

Entrepreneurs live more in 1 year than many do in 10 or 50. By that math, when I die I may have lived 1,000 years and will be ready to go.

Funnily enough that's been scientifically proven.

We think we experience time faster because a year represents a smaller and smaller portion of our lives as we grow older. However the truth is our time perception is dictated by how many things we do and as we get older we do less things. As a twenty year old you have a much wider friend group you do as a fifty year old, thus you aren't going out as much, visiting people etc.

So they proved that our perception of time, is dictated by the amount of things happening in our lives, yes, "time flies when you're having fun". But we don't live our lives in the present, we are in a perpetual state of perceiving the future and past.

Think about holidays you've been on, if you have had an adventure packed one and also a lazy one, which one seemed to last longer in your memory? Chances are it will be the one whereby you did loads of things. Whereas the chilled out one on the beach you kind of remember as one long day of sameness.

This makes perfect sense as we perceive time to be "the rate at which things happen".

In another interesting related experiment, Derek from the Veritasium studio attempted to stay in a completely white room for seven days. After less than an hour he was completely disorientated and had no idea how long he'd been in there.

Afterwards he reported his time felt short when looking back, because he hadn't done much else other than wake up, eat, exercise, sleep. Thus his brain, (rather I think like computer memory fractalization) edits out most of the experience.

So that's basically a long way of saying, if you don't want life to speed up on you, do more stuff.

 

[Raedrum]

Funnily enough that's been scientifically proven.

We think we experience time faster because a year represents a smaller and smaller portion of our lives as we grow older. However the truth is our time perception is dictated by how many things we do and as we get older we do less things. As a twenty year old you have a much wider friend group you do as a fifty year old, thus you aren't going out as much, visiting people etc.

So they proved that our perception of time, is dictated by the amount of things happening in our lives, yes, "time flies when you're having fun". But we don't live our lives in the present, we are in a perpetual state of perceiving the future and past.

Think about holidays you've been on, if you have had an adventure packed one and also a lazy one, which one seemed to last longer in your memory? Chances are it will be the one whereby you did loads of things. Whereas the chilled out one on the beach you kind of remember as one long day of sameness.

This makes perfect sense as we perceive time to be "the rate at which things happen".

In another interesting related experiment, Derek from the Veritasium studio attempted to stay in a completely white room for seven days. After less than an hour he was completely disorientated and had no idea how long he'd been in there.

Afterwards he reported his time felt short when looking back, because he hadn't done much else other than wake up, eat, exercise, sleep. Thus his brain, (rather I think like computer memory fractalization) edits out most of the experience.

So that's basically a long way of saying, if you don't want life to speed up on you, do more stuff.

I had the exact same thought some time ago, I've always had the feeling that live was passing too fast, and the last month I did more focused work and get more results, finally this was one of the slowest month for a long time.

This compel me to work more ^^ Glad to see that this is scientifically proven

EDIT: I think that this is more the results that are involved, that time passed working. It is the accomplishment that slow time, not "work" itself.

 

[heavy_industry]

What's up with time eh? A month feels like a week these days. I'm 28, but time seems to have sped up dramatically these last 4/5 years.

It get's worse right?

Our perception of time is relative.
The vast majority of people have a cognitive bias that influences their perception of time based on what they have already lived:

• At 5 years old, 1 years is 20% of your life.
• At 10 years old, the same year is 10% of your life.
• At 20 years old, the same year is 5% of your life. And so on.

This is one of the reasons why very young people fail at all their goals and give up immediately. For a 15 year old, spending 2 years building a business seems like an eternity that will never end.

This cognitive bias is an evolutionary advantage that we needed during the stone age. There is no point in working at something long-term for 2 years, if in 6 months you will be eaten alive by a tiger or die during a hunting expedition.

For the rare people that have the wisdom to see past this illusion, and understand how short and limited the human life really is, those are the ones that have the potential to become world-class performers.

Time is unbelievably precious.
Most people are too stupid to fully comprehend this - until the time runs out. And at that point, there are no refunds.

Claiming that a pound of iron is heaver than a pound of feathers is NOT opinion.

Of course it's not an opinion!
It's a FACT!

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Saw a post about how hydro electric power is "free" electricity and it had over a million likes. No, it's not free. The energy generated is the cost of construction depreciated over the life of the project to replacement divided per unit of energy produced.

I guess people think you just build stuff and it lasts forever with zero maintenance cost. Never has to be replaced or upgraded. Haha...

In other news, turbines are just wheels and we are basically using tech from the Middle Ages with extra steps. That's how innovation and creativity work - adding things to existing ideas.

 

[Andy Black]

Heard a great line on a podcast:

"No-one wants to give you a job. Everyone wants to give you advice though."

Ask for advice then?

 

[Xeon]

Heard a great line on a podcast:

"No-one wants to give you a job. Everyone wants to give you advice though."

Ask for advice then?

Most people give crappy advice, especially the ones outside of the FLF.

 

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[Raedrum]

Heard a great line on a podcast:

"No-one wants to give you a job. Everyone wants to give you advice though."

Ask for advice then?

Most people give crappy advice, especially the ones outside of the FLF.

Yes that's why I decided to spend more time on TFF

I realized self-employed and entreprenneur are 2 very different mindset

 

[Lex DeVille]

Yesterday ActiveCampaign announced a major price hike because their email service is so amazing.

Today, I can't even get an email to send...

 

[JAJT]

However the truth is our time perception is dictated by how many things we do and as we get older we do less things.

That's what I've always heard as well.

The density of memorable moments / novelty is a strong factor in determining our perception of time by giving us lots and lots of "anchors" to recall during a given time period.

If you do nothing for a month, you effectively have no meaningful memory of that month, hence it feels like it "flew by".
If you did something new or novel almost every day, you'll have a hard time even remembering everything you did, so the month feels like it lasted forever.

 

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[Andy Black]

Most people give crappy advice, especially the ones outside of the FLF.

I think it was good advice.

Hi everyone,
I'm doing XYZ.
Do you need help with XYZ?

(Asks for a job, gets ignored.)

vs

Hi everyone,
I'm doing XYZ.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get more business?

(Asks for advice, gets loads as everyone loves giving advice.)

 

[Black_Dragon43]

Hi everyone,
I'm doing XYZ.
Do you need help with XYZ?

(Asks for a job, gets ignored.)

vs

Hi everyone,
I'm doing XYZ.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get more business?

(Asks for advice, gets loads as everyone loves giving advice.)

Hmm, asking for advice will get you responses, but imo low quality responses. The advice you get may be great, but how does it position you?

They’ll think: “this poor guy, he must have a hard time getting clients, obviously what he does is probably no good”

It doesn’t make you look like an expert.

The first one isn’t great either, but at least that gives you a better fighting chance imo.

Ideally you’d network and become friends with the people first, and only tell them what you do when they ask about it and take it further if they show interest.

Then you create a dynamic where you are being chased, rather than you chasing, which is the most powerful kind of dynamic for sales.

 

[Kak]

Normally I see these as low value clickbait… but there is a SHOCKING amount of detail in this article.

Where he finds his leads, where he buys his machines, what he buys, even his credit card processor and how everything works.

He really opened up. @JLE you could do this… It’s just one of a billion things.

This 28-year-old built a side hustle that brings in $30,000 a month: 'I only have to work 6 hours a week'

During the pandemic, Quinn Miller quit his sales job to start a vending machine side hustle. Today, his business brings in $30,000 a month, and he only has to work six hours a week on it. He shares how he got started.

www.cnbc.com

 

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[JordanK]

Novak Djokovic prepares to make final call on Miami Open offer

My rant of the day is that I still can't visit the US. Hopefully on May 11th the rule is dropped.

 

[Andy Black]

Hmm, asking for advice will get you responses, but imo low quality responses. The advice you get may be great, but how does it position you?

They’ll think: “this poor guy, he must have a hard time getting clients, obviously what he does is probably no good”

It doesn’t make you look like an expert.

The first one isn’t great either, but at least that gives you a better fighting chance imo.

Ideally you’d network and become friends with the people first, and only tell them what you do when they ask about it and take it further if they show interest.

Then you create a dynamic where you are being chased, rather than you chasing, which is the most powerful kind of dynamic for sales.

That was just an example off the top of my head.

If I'm in a Facebook group of Irish business owners I'm quite happy asking for help with some grant I'm interested in, someone to explain wtf GDOR is about, or whatever.

 

[Fox]

Pretty amazing how far consistent work will get you...

 

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[Black_Dragon43]

That was just an example off the top of my head.

If I'm in a Facebook group of Irish business owners I'm quite happy asking for help with some grant I'm interested in, someone to explain wtf GDOR is about, or whatever.

I see what you mean. I think it’s a bit different than asking about how to get clients, especially if you are in marketing/sales, that really doesn’t position you well imo. But asking about advice in other areas, that’s a solid strategy to start a few conversations!

 

[Kak]

Anyone try/like masterclass?

Some of it looks like woke garbage, but there are some interesting names on there too. Look like potentially more educational mindless entertainment.

 

[Lex DeVille]

Anyone try/like masterclass?

Some of it looks like woke garbage, but there are some interesting names on there too. Look like potentially more educational mindless entertainment.

Yes/no

 

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[Subsonic]

Believe it or not, this is a homemade Ferrari LaFerrari

Homemade Ferrari LaFerrari: Owning a $1.5 million LaFerrari is a dream only few get to realize. So a group of friends from Vietnam built one instead.

supercarblondie.com

Had to post this because its just too good. Building a ferrari from scrap metal, a shit car and clay.

If this is somehow legal to do in germany ill buy some crash car and give this a shot myself. Just the tought of driving around in a home made ferrari/lambo at age 19 is making me crack up.

 

[Ing]

Believe it or not, this is a homemade Ferrari LaFerrari

Homemade Ferrari LaFerrari: Owning a $1.5 million LaFerrari is a dream only few get to realize. So a group of friends from Vietnam built one instead.

supercarblondie.com

Had to post this because its just too good. Building a ferrari from scrap metal, a shit car and clay.

If this is somehow legal to do in germany ill buy some crash car and give this a shot myself. Just the tought of driving around in a home made ferrari/lambo at age 19 is making me crack up.

In Germany BBS Replica wheels are confiscated and destroyed, if the right police officer gets you. So with a fake Ferrari you will get about half the way to the TÜV until it’s confiscated! So no, not in Germany!

 

[Xeon]

Adobe's Record Revenue is Why Software Subscriptions are Inevitable

Monthly payments are just too valuable.

petapixel.com

This is why there's a Need for *cough cough* "black market software"

 

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[Skroob]

Adobe's Record Revenue is Why Software Subscriptions are Inevitable

Monthly payments are just too valuable.

petapixel.com

This is why there's a Need for *cough cough* "black market software"

One of these days I’ll put together a post about this subject. But the short short version is: nobody can stop you, but I wish you wouldn’t.

 

[loop101]

Here is a video of 10 jobs you can do remote and on your own schedule. I had not heard of "Instructional Designer".

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFjuU3V1Yk