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Maybe dig a little deeper into this one? There is nothing about European settlers in this game.
https://www.amazon.com/Greater-Than-Games-Spirit-Island/dp/B01MUHP51S

It is basically taking the premise of Settlers of Catan but playing from the perspective of Catanians and Catan itself, and switching style from competitive to cooperative.

It is as much anticolonial resistance as Catan is colonial exploitation. That is, to the extent game mechanics are allegorical and experientially instructive.

This comes from the textbook "Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence: A Systems Approach". It's used in a Master's of Education counseling program, regardless of concentration, e.g. School Counseling, Clinical Mental Health, etc. There are more slides, but it just makes me madder to even see them. They are filled with post-modern social constructionist views, the ever-mysterious and ill-defined 'white privilege,' and the ever-favorite 'microagressions' that, apparently, white people dole out to minorities simply by existing.

EDIT: Here's a link to the rest of the slides

The definitions have changed:

Social psychologists have introduced the idea of modern racism, which refers to subtle forms of prejudice that coexist with the rejection of racist beliefs. Modern racists tend to believe that discrimination is no longer a serious problem and that minority groups are demanding too much societal change, as in too many changes to traditional values (Henry & Sears, 2000). *~ Psychological Science (Fifth Edition), pg 532 Michael Gazzanig*a

https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Science-Fifth-Michael-Gazzaniga/dp/0393937496

So, if you even have questions or doubts about what is going on, you are apt to be labeled.

This is why, I believe, Jordan Peterson said: "I dont like to cede linguistic territory to the people with whom I disagree."

Excellent! I think that is exactly the right response. It's not "it's unfair that companies give raises to people (mostly men) who ask for them". It's: "If men get raises because they ask for them, maybe I should try that." I'm definitely more uncomfortable asking for raises than many of my male colleagues - but I make much more of an effort now than I otherwise might.

I still struggle with lack of ambition for a management role. I enjoy being an individual contributor - and can point to work I've done personally that impacted stock price. I'm a very good connector -so I have solved several cross-functional problems by bringing people together (including a few clashing egos) to drive solutions to high-impact problems. That's not something that has a traditional pay grade attached to it (for ICs) - so I've had to work to advocate for compensation commensurate with impact.

Interestingly there are a number of studies showing that women raise the "collective intelligence" of groups. This is based on the idea that no one individual, no matter how talented, is as effective as a group that works well together. Women, in general, are better than men, in general, at integrating participants into a group- improving overall performance. (https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Up-Excellence-Getting-Settling/dp/0385347022)

We just need to take responsibility for identifying when, where and how we add value and advocating for appropriate recognition. If the value is there, in my experience, recognition (and pay) eventually follows. Even if other people claim credit in the short run, in the long term they can't replicate the success on their own - and are eventually exposed.

Everyone needs to read Breitbart's Righteous Indignation. You've been lied to about this guy. He's a true hero, that's why he was murdered (look into it).

https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526992910&sr=8-1&keywords=righteous+indignation+andrew+breitbart

First let me say I enjoy power lifting and will go to a local competition next month hoping to bench 150kg. It’s a great way to improve ego while accepting there is always a bigger fish out there.

Your discussion of muscle calorie burn is technically correct but the increase is small. 10 lbs of muscle will burn 50 calories while the same amount of fat burns 20. Small gain for a lot of muscle.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/features/8-ways-to-burn-calories-and-fight-fat

The real benefits are hormonal from exercise and psychological from better body imaging. There is also a social aspect many people lack in their daily life that being in a gym regularly can help with.

If people want to lose weight they need to change their diet, no other way.

If I understand correctly, they propose that statistics and math are false because they are based on a patriarchial, hierarchial view of the world.

Edit: "the idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking" Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins

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Off topic comment, but here's a few tips:

1) Firefox supports better privacy than Chrome or Edge/IE
2) uBlock Origin browser add-on blocks adds, scripts connected to ads, and some other tracking mechanisms
3) Disconnect browser add-on should take care of most anything else.
4) If you want to take it a step forward, consider a VPN (Virtual Private Network). I, personally, use ExpressVPN, but research and evaluate the options yourself.

Not a perfect solution, but those will take you 95% of the way for online privacy against trackers and profilers.

Does anyone have an opinion on the quoted book?

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By Neil Postman

i continue to be surprised by how catastrophist these reactions have been.

with minimal effort, we're in near 100% control of our reddit experience:

• 1 - install RES & use the ignore feature. use it a lot. this alone will filter most of the nonsense.
• 2 - don't read/reply to threads that seem to be self-evidently low quality or inane; e.g. the umpteenth re-iteration that JP/the sub "doesn't understand post-modernism," or "it's not real Communism, Marxism, etc." this is exactly what u/Seekeroflight means above.
• 3 - when confronted with difficult or ambiguous claims that could potentially warrant engagement or investigation, check the account details of the person(s) involved. promptly ignore those with a history of dumb, inflammatory or thoughtlessly anti-JP statements. this is precisely ad hominem, and it's absolutely appropriate when attempting to filter through the noise produced in (most) online forums & especially when dealing w/ issues like briganding.
• 4 - ignore people who use aggressive language or make claims about what's "really happening" in other people's heads.
• 5 - friend people whose posts you find insightful & spend more time perusing their stuff instead of aggregate subs.
• 6 - broaden your interest to include other places set up to encourage participation from deliberate, thoughtful people--r/SlateStarCodex leaps to mind.

a parting shot: if you find managing your experience on an online forum to be so difficult & frustrating as to ask/encourage/demand babying, how in hell's bells are you supposed to manage things more complicated & messy by orders of magnitude like your career, health or relationships?

tldr: less swooning, more competence. get it together, people.

Eh, Marx was inevitable. He took the ideas of a genius, Hegel, and the idea of the historical dialectic and inverted it.

Marx made a good observation about a way of interpreting the driving forces behind human history. He was ultimately wrong (historical materialism is too simplistic), but that idea was going to happen one way or the other.

We ought to blame Marx as much as Stalin and Mao as well as everyone else who behaved like a total fuckwad when it wasn’t necessary to behave like a total fuckwad.

I recommend everyone to listen to Peter Singer summarize Hegel

https://www.amazon.com/Hegel-Short-Introduction-Peter-Singer/dp/019280197X

And Marx

https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Short-Introduction-Peter-Singer/dp/0192854054

Edit: Lots of overlap between Peterson and Hegel btw. Though Hagel was highly critical of the Classical Liberal notion of freedom.

Edit: Fixed spelling for all anal retentives

Hitler's own personal beliefs are not synonymous with Nazism. Hitler and the Nazis were skeptical of organized religion insofar as it posed a threat to the authority of the Nazi party.

However, to be an open atheist in the Nazi party would be unheard of; atheism was akin to Communism. The Nazi party made immense use of Christian themes and institutional support in its rise to power.

>Saying that Nazism was an atheist doctrine is as correct as it gets.

Open a book for once in your life. Something like these, for example, written by actual historians.

https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Reich-Conceptions-Christianity-1919-1945/dp/0521603528

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8820.html

God I hate this sub sometimes, and PC culture, and the opposite of whatever PC culture is, down home simple folk American culture is.

what is a "lady"

Can someone define what "acting like a lady" is.

Is it riding a horse side-saddle?

Is it wearing a dress and being all coy and saying "I declare"?

Is it fainting when you see man without a shirt on?

Here's an instruction manual on how to act like a lady

> In the ladies' room, have one, or if your party is large, two women to wait upon your guests; to remove their cloaks, overshoes, and hoods, and assist them in smoothing their dresses or hair. After each guest removes her shawl and hood, let one of the maids roll all the things she lays aside into a bundle, and put it where she can easily find it. It is an admirable plan, and prevents much confusion, to pin to each bundle, a card, or strip of paper, (previously prepared,) with the name of the person to whom it belongs written clearly and distinctly upon it.

To all the people "reeeing" about the "reeeing" about this sign,

Consider this: it means absolutely nothing other than "kind of act vaguely like I imagine women are supposed to"

It's completely retarded.

It's also completely retarded because "acting like a lady" has no promise that he will "act like a gentleman"

Back in the heady first days of the internet's spread (in this case 1994) I read a book called "Orwell's Revenge", in which the author (while still respecting him) made the case that Orwell was wrong, that new technology would allow even the most rigorous dictatorship to be defeated. The idea was that Orwell's Thought Police couldn't be everywhere, couldn't monitor all people at all times, and people could even hijack the state's communication network to secretly communicate and push for freedom. Back in the early 90s it seemed like it was true.

But the author, Peter Huber, underestimated the power of software. Sophisticated enough software can, in fact, monitor everyone at all times. There's no need for a Thought Policeman to listen in on your conversations. The system can just monitor for key words when people are talking, run facial recognition software to look for malcontents, go through social networks flagging crimespeak as it's encountered. And when it encounters something it sends a message to a human who can then deal with the situation... if such a response even requires a human. The software being run already blocks users, bans online conversations, demonetizes YouTube channels, and nary a human has to be bothered. Except the people being silenced.

This is some scary stuff, and worse because you just know there are politicians here in the West drooling over this technology. If I had to bet I'd figure that they're already looking at it for Airstrip One, the increasingly-Orwellian Great Britain.

It's all about timing. Don't go up to a girl and unload on her like she is your therapist, but if she asks you a question you better tell her the truth. Girls actually love a guy who isn't afraid to tell the truth. In fact, an entire book has been written on the subject of telling the truth as being the most efficient dating strategy.

It's called Models by Mark Manson. I read it when I was 18, and it changed the way I approached dating. There aren't a lot of books that I would say every guy must read, but this is one of those books that every guy should read. Seriously, check it out, the free .pdf is available online, but it is well worth buying a physical copy.

I suspect that JPB is primarily a Rogerian psychologist. The main technique is simply to listen to what patients say, and challenge any inconsistencies and (possible) false beliefs. The problem with this approach is that it can take an awful lot of time, something which clinicians working in public health services simply don't have. CBT provides a much more direct route to helping people, which is why it is favoured. Also, the more traditional techniques are said not to work very well.

If you want a Rogerian psychologist, you will probably have to go private, which will be expensive. Alternatively, you can look at the Human Givens approach, but this is not yet mainstream enough to be available from public health services. A useful book is <em>How to Lift Depression [...fast], The Human Givens Approach</em> by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell. It's not that expensive, and has a lot of good ideas.

> What schools are teaching white privilege?

Here's a video of an elementary girl who was traumatized by CTR training.

https://twitter.com/theREALbenORR/status/1408041591567224839

> Why is teaching white privilege a racist idea, and can you prove that it is?

To judge people based on the color of their skin is racist. Consult a dictionary.

> What part of CRT teaches white privilege?

Buy a copy of Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction by Richard Delgado https://www.amazon.ca/dp/147980276X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_8ZC7RYRCPY00HFTRPN13 and read it.

> Do you not think that privilege exists for every culture under the context of different variables, and if so why wouldn't white privilege be relevant to teaching US history?

Because it's racist, and also, bogus. I've never seen a coherent description of white privilege that withstood any scrutiny.

For reference, you can find this quote in Lewis' collection God in the Dock, specifically "The Humanitarian Theory as Punishment." It's one of my favorites. And while I'm not a Lewis expert, I believe the sentiment recurs throughout his work.

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Reverse google search leads to a text book titled "Civics and Citizenship Canadian Investigations" published in 2014.

Amazon reviews seem to agree with us.

https://www.amazon.ca/Civics-Citizenship-Student-Angelo-Bolotta/dp/0199007691

I used to read that subreddit back in 2013 when I was going through a particularly difficult time with my mother. She's mentally ill and was abusive towards my father and I was considering going "no contact" with her (which is a term used in that community to refer to fully breaking ties with someone). My mom is self-centered and unable to empathize with others and I thought that subreddit could help.

There were some legit posters who also seemed to understand how narcissists behave (they have traits like making very fast friendships and also dividing everyone in their life into rigid "with me" or "against me" camps). That was then, in 2013, and I only read it for maybe 4 months. There was also an undercurrent of victimology among some posters who were looking for people to blame for their own unhappiness. It's one thing to be dealing with a narcissist who you live with or who you're married to -- that's a big problem if you find yourself in conflict with them, fighting with a narcissist is scorched earth stuff -- but once you've "escaped" your npd parent and are an adult, it's time to assume responsibility for dealing with it and moving on. Some people prefer not to move on because they don't want to bare any responsibility because doing so means accepting that at least some of their unhappiness might be their own fault.

I just checked out the subreddit again now and it's fairly unrecognizable from its 2013 version. Yikes. My guess is that the SJW problem has gotten a lot worse in the last 5 years and so the balance of power in the subreddit has tilted decidedly in favor of newer, younger victim-minded posters. Jonathan Haidt's new book should deal with some of these trends in child rearing and socialization.

If you want to follow that path even further, read this book.

It's a journey through how Putin creates exactly the feeling you're experiencing to control Russia, how the strategy developed over time, and what it's like to live in Russia once truth died.

Church of Spies

"The Vatican's stance toward Nazism is fiercely debated. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold.

Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. When he learned of the Holocaust, Pius played his cards close to his chest. He sent birthday cards to Hitler--while plotting to overthrow him.

Church of Spies documents this cross-and-dagger intrigue in shocking detail. Gun-toting Jesuits stole blueprints to Hitler's homes. A Catholic book publisher flew a sports plane over the Alps with secrets filched from the head of Hitler's bodyguard. The keeper of the Vatican crypt ran a spy ring that betrayed German war plans and wounded Hitler in a briefcase bombing.

The plotters made history in ways they hardly expected. They inspired European unification, forged a U.S.-Vatican alliance that spanned the Cold War, and challenged Church teachings on Jews. Yet Pius' secret war muted his public response to Nazi crimes. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert actions, he never spoke the "fiery words" he wanted.

Told with heart-pounding suspense, based on secret transcripts and unsealed files, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. "

Idk -maybe grow a spine and develop some important coping skills.

I'm with Rupaul: But don’t you dare tell me what I can do or say. It’s just words. Yeah, words do hurt… You know what? … <strong>You need to get stronger. You really do, because you know what, if you think, if you’re upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.</strong>

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Read The Kingdom Of God Is Within You. It is among the books the prof. Peterson recommends in his list but I don't think people realize just how big of an influence the ideas presented in this book are.

Seriously time to start divesting from Google.

For mail, I'd recommend Proton Mail.

For YouTube, LBRY might be a good decentralized alternative.

There are tons of Blog services.

Not really. There's a lot of different things that go in to this and what you do depends on how much you're willing to sacrifice. Increasing privacy and security almost always comes with decreasing convenience. For example, I do not use SMS. If somebody I know wants to "text" me, they can use Signal or Threema. I also won't converse with anybody over a cellular connection unless it's an emergency. This is extremely inconvenient both for me and for some people who want to keep in touch with me, but I consider this to be worthwhile.

There's a lot of stuff you can do to enhance your privacy. The easiest thing I'd recommend to everybody is to replace your Alexa/Google home with Mycroft. I don't go nearly as far as some people though. For example, Snowden says don't use wifi or 4G. He plugs an ethernet cable into an adapter for his phone.

I've recently taken responsibility for the fact that I'm lost when it comes to socializing/making friends. My mind goes completely blank when I consider attempting to get to know someone or even have a conversation with people I'm relatively comfortable around. Im happy that I've recognized that my too cool for school, outcast/loner persona needs to be shed because I've let a defense mechanism become a large part of my identity.

I've started JP's reading list with Man's Search for Meaning and Crime and Punishment is up next. I'm starting to really enjoy reading and I'm excited to continue.

Im just starting Self Authoring and like it so far! My Big 5 results were a bummer, it bothers me to have the lowest possible score of industriousness and being in the bottom percentile of intellect. I want to do my best to improve in these areas and have been thinking about how to utilize my high agreeableness and other strengths.

I'm sorting myself out. I'm lost in chaos but I'm no longer fooling myself.

That could be part of it. Adams is very concerned with how he is perceived. He's been busted creating aliases to defend himself on Metafilter. And reddit.

https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189

>They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.

Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler's Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal.

Read his fantastic book: Black Rednecks &amp; White Liberals.
How many 500+reviewed books on Amazon do you see which have a full FIVE STAR RATING?!
After those ~250 pages, his world is your oyster.

One of my favorite positions of Dr. Sowell's is his lengthy discussion on how "minimum wage increase" theories predominantly affect minorities (particularly blacks) most. In a bad way.

ref: Dr. Thomas Sowell is black — inb4 "racist"

My guy is Noam Chomsky. Here is his opinion.

> What you're referring to is what's called "theory." And when I said I'm not interested in theory, what I meant is, I'm not interested in posturing--using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there's no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can't. So I'm not interested in that kind of posturing. Žižek is an extreme example of it. I don't see anything to what he's saying. Jacques Lacan I actually knew. I kind of liked him. We had meetings every once in awhile. But quite frankly I thought he was a total charlatan. He was just posturing for the television cameras in the way many Paris intellectuals do. Why this is influential, I haven't the slightest idea. I don't see anything there that should be influential.

Compiling that video playlist seems like an awful lot of work.

You likely know of Khan Academy. Why not start there?

The Great Courses, though it does cost money, has an elementary course.

And why not head to a bookstore? You can find something to your likings. For example, Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan is popular. And there's always the "For Dummies" series. One advantage of a book is that it will make sure you don't miss anything vitally important.

Here are two textbooks, which can be purchased used: Statistics Unplugged by Sally Caldwell (very basic, used by psychology students, conversationalist approach but doesn't mention p values) and Probability and Statistics (more advanced, make sure you remember your calculus).

You're an adult and you're not the only adult who struggles with this. A couple pieces of advice for you: 1) You are more self-conscious about this than other people notice. 2) conversation is a learned skill and any learned skill takes practice. Fortunately, there are great resources out the for improving your abilities and comfort level. A few for reference: -The F.O.R.D. method is clutch: https://lifehacker.com/use-the-ford-technique-to-make-small-talk-easier-5937348 -Winning Friends and Influencing People is a must read book for anyone regardless of conversational comfort. -Toast Masters is a national organization that focuses on developing people's comfort with public speaking and presentation. I've never been but there are people I respect who love it. 3) Life, accomplishment, and feeling good about yourself is largely about taking on new challenges and making progress. This is your burden to bare and everyone's is different. Grab the bull by the horns and steer it. Sometimes you're going to fuck up. Learn to laugh at yourself, forgive yourself, and be gentle with yourself as you are with your best friends. Relish in your small accomplishments even if your only accomplishment is putting yourself out there and getting embarrassed.

Good luck. I'm rooting for you.

https://www.docdroid.net/51gFbYD/black-anality.pdf

Jennifer C. Nash

Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies Ph.D. Harvard University, African-American Studies, 2009 J.D. Harvard Law School, 2004 B.A. Harvard College, Women's Studies, 2001

https://www.afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/jennifer-christine-nash.html

Here is a 2014 review of the literature. Seems to be minimal differences between hetero/homosexual parents and child success in a number of factors.

Jason Hannan from University of Winnipeg wrote a great piece titled 'Trolling ourselves to death - Social Media and post-truth politics' that builds on Postman's analysis - link here

https://steemit.com/libertarianism/@kierkeguardian/stefan-molyneux-enemy-of-liberty

Here is an article equating Stefan with the far-right, about a video in which he denounces libertarians. Is this a liberal news source? No, it's by and for libertarians. Regardless of your political association, it seems almost everyone, including Stefan's listeners, equate him with the far right.

What is the best way to get in contact with Peterson, to debate logically and factually the value of continued appearances with Stefan and where he really stands?

I'm from Latvia and that "news agency" is a propaganda machine and has nothing to do with free speech.

As one example I can say that they try to push the idea that Latvians are nazis and racists.

RT is well made propaganda machine.

if you want to know what happens with free speech in Russia, check what happened with one journalist from https://meduza.io/en (forgot the name)

https://flipboard.com/video/wcvb/c5b4bf0b7b Was just about to post about this to see what memes this subreddit would come up with. It could only be better if he said afterward that it inspired him to clean up his houseboat or something along those lines.

JP keeps saying there's going to be a "couples" version of the Understandmyself personality test. That's cool and all but I'm wondering if he's thought about partnering with OKCupid or Match.com to see about incorporating that extra level of compatibility for those of us who are still searching? Things that make you go hmm.

>Does this mean the summaries at the beginning of each chapter should be read before the body of the book itself?

Yes.

Here is a summary of those summaries, if you're interested: https://www.docdroid.net/fdoSUWT/summary-and-guide-to-maps-of-meaning.docx.html

I gave you an answer. Go purchase a CRT book on amazon. Here's a popular one:

Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction https://www.amazon.com/dp/147980276X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_KJKGVJK2J8D1877CBFZ3

Then read what they say about "white privilege", "whiteness" and "white supremacy."

Except he did actually report the trauma of the wife of Liu Xiaobo while he was imprisoned and died of the neglect of his cancer.

>1 person's personal bias & exaggerated opinions

Critical error. His book "Bullets and Opium" is actually not something that he collected in his own story, but interviews of former Tiananmenn protestors and what happened during the night and what happened to them in prison. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982126655/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_SK8DKBNE0C0B0376QR7H

>1.4 billion satisfied & proud & unified Chinese people, sorry

Oh I'm sure they're happy as fuck https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307388379/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_Q0GM0JESNA3MTMCWNEX7

Weird ain't it, that we're slowly becoming accustomed to how frequent these sayings are becoming?

So frequent some real scientists had to write a book about it https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023

And even wrote fake papers that got published in these pseduo-scientific fake journals masquerading as actual science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" when I wasn't much older than you (listed on JP's Great Books list). It's loosely an autobiography about a man who takes his son on a cross country bike trip while trying to sort out some things in his mind. It's not a heavy read (as Pirsig says, not much about Zen or motorcycle maintenance for that matter), but has a way of drawing you in as he gets closer and closer to answers.

Warning: you may come out the other side wanting to own a motorcycle :)

Nothing does not exist, so why can one imagine nothing?

Clearly, nothing exists. But that's a paradox...

The point of this paradox is to show that reductive materialism necessarily forces one to adopt a language that is contradictory in order to operate within the world if it is the case that the material is all there is. This situation can still be rescued if one recognises that the rules of thoughts and the rules of objective reality work differently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus#Christianity

>Plotinus' philosophy had an influence on the development of Christian theology. In A History of Western Philosophy, philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that:

>>To the Christian, the Other World was the Kingdom of Heaven, to be enjoyed after death; to the Platonist, it was the eternal world of ideas, the real world as opposed to that of illusory appearance. Christian theologians combined these points of view, and embodied much of the philosophy of Plotinus. [...] Plotinus, accordingly, is historically important as an influence in moulding the Christianity of the Middle Ages and of theology.[22]

Long story short, Plato's forms are where the word 'information' comes from. The majority of mathematicians are still Platonists.

So that begs the question, are numbers real or ideal? The reductive materialist, it would seem, cannot answer this question without invoking the very metaphysical ideal reality he would claim does not exist in order to argue his point.

You might also find this series of videos helpful, as it goes deep into the historical origins of Western metaphysics.

In general, theocratic rule is incompatible with democracy, but support for state-backed religion is hardly unique to Muslims: Denmark, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Greenland all have official Christianity and state-backed churches. Most Church-attending Christians in Europe support some form of state support for religion, and most Americans believe that state-enforced Christian observance in schools should be allowed.

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I think these are bad policies that conflict with core democratic values, but there are lots of democracies (maybe even most) where a large segment of the population supports un-democratic things.

new account, so who knows--benefit of the doubt.

if you'd like people to engage constructively, it's useful to be precise with your remarks.

what do you mean by "this site," all of reddit? this sub? a particular post?

what, exactly, is subversive, and why is it "left leaning"? what makes it garbage/rubbish?

online forums tend to have atrocious signal to noise ratios. it's up to everybody to individually curate their own content intake. even if /r/JordanPeterson seems bad, it compares favorably to many other subs. i'm a big fan of RES to keep track of user impressions, ignore those i find to contribute next to nothing and follow those who post careful, well-thought items. give it a try.

Definitely upvote.

The link is posted however on the panel on the right - 42 Things Everyone Should Know

There are many more useful links there that people often miss, like the Search Engine.

"42 things" are great to put on a poster, meditate on or do writing exercises with. We will probably find some of those rules expanded upon in JBP's next book.

Flip-Floping

I heard an interview with him about the why. I found a news report also explaining the why (worried for mask shortage) …but I’m sure you’d rather hear it from his own mouth.

At the end of last week's show, Dimbleby said JBP would be on this week, i.e. tomorrow.

"we're going to be joined by a man who's been described as the most influential public intellectual in the western world, and equally as a professor of piffle. Campaigner against political correctness, Jordan Peterson."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bqrbfj/question-time-2018-01112018#t=58m30s

I recommend taking America's Founding Fathers by The Great Courses.

Laws and statutes were already being pushed or on the books in a number of states to disincentivize or regulate away slave ownership in a scheduled manner. Slavery was hotly debated during the convention.

Do you know why it was not called "the constitutional convention" at the time? Because they absolutely had no mandate to be there drafting an entirely new constitution. They were there simply to amend the Articles of Confederation. Beyond slavery, there were a number of problems with the way the new colonies had set things up and they were there to address those issues.

That they went ahead anyway and created the document we have today is a historical milestone for the human race. Basically everyone agreed, no matter how they felt about slavery itself, that it was wholly untennable to address it right then and there. The civil war started less than 100 years later. Now consider the context of the wider world, and the history of the human race.

This article not only misses the history, but in doing so, feeds the passerby a reason to further feed the trope-ish meme about the "founding fathers" being racist white dudes when they were quite the varied bunch. When you listen to their arguments and speeches that much is clear. It's articles like this that mis-frame things like slave representation only being 3/5ths as being evidence of the racist homogeny even though this was actually an anti-slavery provision.

It's poisoning the well for clicks and virtue signals.

I have a "Great Courses" sub... what's the Nietzsche one called?

About 2/3 through "Redefining Reality" myself. Good stuff.

A few things I find useful:

• Google Calendar
• Momentum (Browser Extension for Chrome): https://momentumdash.com/
• Habitica (To-Do List RPG website): https://habitica.com/
• Monthly finance tracking/logging: On the first of each month, I dedicate 30 minutes to an hour going over the previous month's bank accounts and finance statements. I log income, expenses, changes in investments/net worth, credit score, etc. in a spreadsheet, and use this to make sure the financial situation is on-track. This is also the day when I pay any bills which aren't set to auto-pay. I've found this to be very useful, personally.

This is the argument of Michael Steele. I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578637

Many years ago (in the mid 1990s, at the dawn of the modern internet) I read a book called "Orwell's Revenge."

https://smile.amazon.com/Orwells-Revenge-Palimpsest-Peter-Huber-ebook/dp/B00X4112OK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1537524675&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=orwell%27s+revenge

It was about how Orwell was wrong, how the internet was going to usher in a new age of freedom, how the authorities couldn't control the new networks. It was pretty much the essence of "Can't stop the signal, Mal."

But what the author failed to understand was that the system COULD be used to create exactly what Orwell dreaded, and in fact could become more intrusive than Orwell even believed was possible. Winston Smith in "1984" thinks that one never knew when the telescreen was being monitored. There might be a member of the Thought Police looking in on you, there might not be, so best to behave. But software doesn't sleep, and we carry our telescreens with us. Those cameras in China are always looking, and the systems behind them are getting better and better at spotting anything untoward. China is just doing what many in power in the West wish they could do. It's a way of ensuring that there's never another threat to their power.

I have tried reading it twice, but I didn't really enjoy the way it was written.

I think Models by Mark Manson is a great alternative. A lot of his life philosophy overlaps with Peterson's, but he goes into greater depth on relationships.

I don't know how many treatises exist on MERELY communism (It's usually mixed in with an explanation of why [classical] liberal economics is good), but you can find some cogent critiques in the following books:

• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• The Law by Frederick Bastiat
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• We, The Living by Ayn Rand (philosophical fiction)
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (philosophical fiction)

The book Thinking, Fast and Slow is 1. written by a neurotic and 2. explores the benefits of neuroticism without calling it by that name.

For example, a point made in the book is that neurotics who have activated their neuroticism by frowning or feeling unhappy are much better statistical thinkers than optimists.

That said, as an extreme neurotic, it can be a real nightmare too. And if you read The Undoing Project (partially about the man who wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow) you'll get some insight into how tortured Kahneman's mind is, and yet how smart, curious and interesting it is too.

> Um that's us.

Speak for yourself. That quote just about describes everyone and every cause, you would wish certain people wouldn't be on your side. :]

Crime and Punishment

One thing that was discussed in the Q&A videos is porn addiction. As /u/gryazlux mentioned, aggregation websites, infotainment and social media are probably the most popular distractions so I'm going to assume that's what you mean by "internet addiction".

First of all, Jordan mentioned a few times that fighting with addictions has to come with a lifestyle change. For example: you won't stop drinking if you meet with all your friends in a pub every weekend.

Secondly, also mentioned by JP, you need to realize what you want, not only what you want to stop. How are you going to use the time and mental energy saved? Aim for something meaningful (to you), because your free resources are going to be used faster than you notice.

If your goal is to get back some of your mental energy and be able to focus better, Cal Newport's "Deep Work" might help. Here's an excerpt:

> “Once your brain has become accustomed to on-demand distraction, Nass discovered, it’s hard to shake the addiction even when you want to concentrate. To put this more concretely: If every moment of potential boredom in your life—say, having to wait five minutes in line or sit alone in a restaurant until a friend arrives—is relieved with a quick glance at your smartphone, then your brain has likely been rewired to a point where, like the “mental wrecks” in Nass’s research, it’s not ready for deep work—even if you regularly schedule time to practice this concentration.”

The article he's referring to is here: https://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking.

Human knowledge is superior to Google 😉.

It’s 22:45 GMT start.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone

That’s the live stream. I’ll see if there’s any other services that might ignore VPNs.

(Warning: you’ll need to sign up with a BBC account. If this works; then you should get access to the streams.)

If this doesn’t work; try this over the VPN...

https://tvplayer.com/

Allen Bloom wrote &quot;Closing of the American Mind&quot; in the mid-80's, it was a reasonably popular book and yet it had virtually no notable impact on the continuing slide into deconstructionist idiocy.

There are numerous spelling errors in the following lengthy excerpt, but manual transcription can be a bitch.

https://puritanreformed.blogspot.com/2008/05/excerps-closing-of-american-mind.html

It's no longer so narrow. Here is the anthology that most people who are debating this have read or refer to: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Writings-Movement/dp/1565842715

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07YTM9HLV/ref=pd_lpo_201_img_2/142-6411508-9580349?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=B07YTM9HLV&amp;pd_rd_r=6977328c-f5de-4349-a855-26f87daa57e7&amp;pd_rd_w=X8R2Q&amp;pd_rd_wg=o2YlP&amp;pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&amp;pf_rd_r=CYV1PF6ZKMGX7W03M9E1&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CYV1PF6ZKMGX7W03M9E1

Hard to argue with your statement since nobody can prove otherwise, but I think it's misleading in that it sounds like you're espousing a tragic sort of fatalism which eschews an individual's capacity to make life defining choices (for better or worse).

To OP, maybe you can consider this kernel of wisdom from Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

Whether you can change your fate or not is irrelevant if you remain committed to choosing your own way.

I started reading the Gulag Archipelago (I have read 350 pages), and I like it. I have also done the "future authoring program", not the whole thing. I think it's pretty good. It doesn't take a lot of time.

I don't know how effective it was, because I was doing a lot of similar things all at once. But I am now working much more toward my goals. I think the book Think and Grow Rich helped a lot. Also being mindful of how I feel in certain situations and paying attention to what influences my decisions. For example, say I'm in school, starting a new course. While in school I'm thinking "This seems interesting, I'm gonna study a lot for this!" But when I get home my friends ask me if I wanna play some online game. It's very easy to say yes to that, because the environment has changed completely. But doing things like the self authoring program and paying attention helps a lot if you want to keep your eyes on the goal and avoid getting influenced too much by your environment. Paying attention to how you feel when procrastinating, or doing things you know you should not, helps too.

You should try watching some of his UK Kitchen Nightmares shows. The US ones are as you say, just yelling at people and telling them they're shit. The UK version has some of that, but he is also really motivational and caring in the way he does it, and shows genuine knowledge of the industry and the subtleties of what makes a good/profitable restaurant.

Because of this difference, I'm given to think that the US version is just a cartoonish exaggeration, deliberately set up to get ratings and nothing else.

Evidence:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21euft

This episode deals with a chef who is under pressure and turns to drink and the way Ramsay deals with the situation is just right.

You forgot to include the example for point 3:

>The doctor enforced a strict dietary regimen.

In contrast, see force (verb):

>to make someone do something, or make something happen, esp. by threatening or not offering the possibility of choice

and enforce (verb):

>to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted

>Marriage is not imposed onto you. You are not compelled to get married.

Exactly.

But marriage is a form of socially enforced monogamy. And if you read the article I posted in my previous comment, you will find out why.

"Facts" according to ee4m:

Every American politician except Bernie Sanders wants to return to 19th century economic policies, just like Foucault did.

Right libertarians want a State that solely serves the interests of corporations.

The Soviet Union wasn't really Communism. They were right wing. Mass starvation there was capitalist countries' fault for not selling them farming equipment.

Identity politics was invented by the Ford Foundation.

Postmodernism was a grassroots social shift that academics noticed, not something they started and spread.

Blames capitalism for the Holocaust.

Estado Novo was liberal.

American media are all right wing.

Got any evidence?

Also assault weapons aren't banned, do your research she's already answered most of your questions

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-abolish-ice-newsroom-sot-vpx.cnn

Some of the books have been brought-to and read in school board meetings.

One parent was removed for "indecency" due to the lude contents she read verbatim in another district.

The war on drugs was started to target blacks.

Yeah, they're technically criminals, just like all the people thrown into prison camps for bullshit reasons in other countries.

For those interested, there's a complete and free audio book/reading of Epictetus's Golden Sayings on Librivox (along with lots and lots of other goodies, of course).

Read as much as you can, and extend your vocabulary as much as you can. Look up the meanings of words that you are not familiar with (and the precise meanings of words that you are familiar with). Check the etymology of words that sound strange to you. Learn to pronounce words correctly (but don't be ashamed of your accent). Cambridge online provides reliable UK and US pronunciations. Finally, learn to write as clearly as you can.

They were posted around the theater his talk was in, the First Ontario Concert Hall

BBC IPlayer might do it live, but should at least upload it in a couple of hours.

Edit: This might be easier.

While OP may be a troll, and I agree it's pretty obvious, it would be an interesting and useful discussion.

OP: I'd like to recommend The Foundations of Western Civilization, produced by The Teaching Company. It's a Notre Dame course that provides a fascinating look into the origins of Western ideals, including the religious/spiritual.

You can use the flashcard program Anki for recalling information. It's made so you'll only get asked questions of which you are likely to forget the answer quite soon.

I once wrote about the program and how to use it, for anyone interested.

Sure thing! So, A lot of people will reccommend CodeAcademy, and if you're an absolute total beginner, it may be up your alley. I am personally not a fan of both its tone and how slow it goes. It's extremely handholding to the point of being infuriating at times. This is true of all its materials. Frankly, I believe the goal of it is not to teach people to code, but to do the above: to say they're a coder. Very, very often, if you look at people who claim and look at their github (an online repository of a person's code they choose to put up) it is chock-full of tutorials and not much else.

Personally, from what I've seen, both https://www.freecodecamp.org/ and https://www.udacity.com/ are much better. If you become interested, in general, you move up to CSS, and then finally JavaScript. When you get to that point, you'll generally be immersed enough to know your next step.

I will give you one tip as a former educator: HTML is merely boxes inside boxes, and sometimes, those boxes have properties (known as attributes), and what those boxes contain denotes what box you should use. That's it. If it's looking complicated, remember that it isn't, and also remember that people like me with 15 years or more under their belt will, on the daily, go to Google to lookup things, very often in the format of "how to do this specific thing"

What the fuck is this shit? I seriously have to question your mental health op.

Edit: This guy should really be banned. All he does is link to this nonsensical video that he made in all his comments.

Edit 2: Holy shit, look at this guy's website. I've never encountered something less coherent. This person is legitimately insane.

Here's a more relevant one, since many deny that CRT is in education:

Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education by Amazon.com Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415899966/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4SWDRAWJKVF9J7XE86FH

The book has a "Look Inside" option where you can check the first few pages.

https://www.amazon.ca/Critical-Race-Theory-Third-Introduction/dp/147980276X

There are other more extreme books on CRT. There's disagreement among it's authors and users. This book is the primer and most reasonable out of all of them in my opinion.

That said I've only read this one myself. The others were recommended to me.

Reminds me of some of the suggestions made in ”an education for our time” (Josiah Bunting) - a vision of a wildly unlikely but interesting concept for integrating leadership and civic duty into higher Ed.

https://www.amazon.com/Education-Our-Time-Josiah-Bunting/dp/0895262223

"Nobody gets rich, you only attain new levels of relative poverty"

Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker

I read it when I was sixteen or seventeen. Truly amazing book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1561840734/

It's a bit hard to find nowadays. This is the only one on Amazon but the cover is weird, and it includes a commentary by "Robert Anton" something.

You should read Seven Days in the Art World if you want a look behind the scenes of the fine art community:

www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039333712X

EDITED to add: Brief summary stolen from a reviewer since Amazon doesn't really give one:

"Over the span of five years, cultural sociologist Thornton visits seven different stages during the rise of mass contemporary art consumption: Christie's auction house in Manhattan; a critique session at a California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) seminar class in Los Angeles; Art Basel in Switzerland; Tate Museum's Turner Prize competition in London; Artforum magazine; Japanese artist/celebrity Takashi Murakami's studios; and Venice Biennale."

So why are you failing? Do you test poorly? Is your state of mind stopping you from studying. Do you want to be there?

If you’re depressed then why? Past history of something terrible? Lack of movement/exercise? Eating the wrong foods? Family history?

You don’t have to answer me, but ask yourself these and more questions. Tackle the problems one by one. The dopamine hit you get from accomplishing something can help.

Try reading this book Blue Mind and get near some water. Might help one part of the problem.

Just a couple of days ago, Doyle wrote this denial/confession:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/04/lisa-graves-i-am-not-titania-mcgrath-go-f-yourself/

And his/her book is published today

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woke-Social-Justice-Titania-McGrath/dp/1472130847

I found this searching for "old testament" and I am reluctant to step into this cesspool of a sub, but the Old Testament deserves defending. Jordan Peterson doesn't seem to understand very much since he is stuck in the degeneracy of modern culture. And his followers here are typical modern scum who can't tolerate contrary viewpoints. Anyway...

The whole point of Christianity is to anthropomorphize God as much as possible, even giving God human form in Jesus. If you don't like anthropomorphizing God, then Christianity is not for you.

While the Old Testament is full of archetypes, particularly in Genesis, you can't really understand it if you are stuck with a Western perspective and philosophy. A good book explaining the fundamental concepts of the Old Testament is this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096BCVPG/

I follow the Old Testament and I would be glad to answer any questions, but not in this cesspool where my karma is -25.

I would argue there are already good, practical books written on the subject. Perhaps Peterson should be promoting them more. I mean, I wouldn’t mind if he wrote his own, but off the top of my head, I can think of Deep Work by Cal Newport. The book purports to be about doing better intellectual work, but make no mistakes, it’s secretly conscientiousness training 101 or “steps to battle ADHD symptoms”. There are also books on human motivation I would highly recommend such as The Science of Self Discipline by Peter Hollins. On extroversion, charm and grace, we have The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane, who offers concrete tips. On cleaning your room, even, there’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, although I would more recommend Spark Joy which is her follow up, more practical book that even teaches you how to fold your clothes neatly. The first book is more fluff and her arguing why you should tidy up. If you want the nitty gritty of it, skip that book. Presumably if we’re here we already want to clean our rooms.

All in all, if Peterson writes such a book I will definitely read it. But the above are some of the most useful books I’ve read that left an impact, from experts who have spent years of their lives thinking on this subject alone. On intellectual productivity you can’t do much better than Newport, and on cleaning your room and staying clean, Kondo is queen. And here’s even more of a plug for Kondo. I have severe ADHD and my room has always been a war zone with brief ceasefires. But now my room is almost always neat with only brief periods of mess. Having a concrete system is a good way to keep chaos out of your life.

Apparently he discussed it in the book Capitalism and Freedom. If you search around you should search for “negative income tax” and “guaranteed income” because those are the terms he used. There are also videos of him on YouTube about it.

In case you are wondering, these are the titles I read:

Books I really enjoyed and would highly recommend:

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
• The Richest Man in Babylon, George Clason
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Mark Manson
• Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan
• The Power Paradox, Dacher Keltner
• To Sell Is Human, Daniel H. Pink
• Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma
• How to Write Better Copy, Steve Harrison
• The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

If your into that sorta thing:

• The Rational Male, Rollo Tomassi
• Minimal Game, Aaron Sleazy
• The Geography of Thought, Richard Nisbett
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• The Warrior of Light, Paulo Coelho
• Notes From a Friend, Anthony Robbins
• The Tao of Coaching, Max Landsberg
• The Body Language Handbook, Gregory Hartley
• The Art of Living, William Hart

Meh, or worse:

• The Self-Made Billionaire Effect, John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen
• This Book Will Make You Smarter, John Brockman
• NLP: Principles in Practice, Lisa Wake
• Disrupt Yourself, Jay Samit

Weird synchronicity:

Somewhere around 15-20 min. Peterson describes his "Ball & Hurricanes" dream, which is about how the most powerful thing can't be categorized.

And just this morning, I read a chapter in "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" (link) which related to No-self and non-duality, which presents a series of paradoxical, self-contradictory statements and then claims you can understand this, but not with the rational mind.

I totally get you on the self-help book industry. For every 1000 garbage books there are 1 or 2 really great gems. I would really recommend checking out Deep Work and So Good They Can't Ignore You. Both had a huge effect on myself and career.

Check out a book called Deep Work by Cal Newport. This will change your focus from getting distracted by the dopamine rushes that can be found in social media, and help you re-focus your efforts on solving actual, valuable problems in your environment. You can unlock your potential when you stop trying to fix the world and focus on "cleaning your room" (or your work place or your relationships, etc.).

Let me guess. You also have large ambitions, but scare yourself to death with the potential downfalls and problem that may arise from it.

When you have two conflicting personalities it means that a part of you is acting impulsively and the other part of comes from your ideal self. This is extremely common and basically, everyone has these "guilty pleasures"/bad habits whether it's smoking, isolationism, or messiness.

There's two things you can do to help this inner battle you have:

1. Schedule

If you're afraid of social interactions then plan to expose youself to these fears. JBP even says this in a talk, you need to confront your dragons so to speak. Put it on the calendar to have at least 2 social events a week and face it head-on.

2. Meditate

People who are high in neuroticism can benefit a lot from meditation as it can help them tone done those at times paralyzing irrational thoughts. It can help you be more mindful and be less inclined to follow emotional impulses that may disgust you afterwards.

Long-term planning is a hallmark of intelligence and success. That's why scheduling and meditation can be your two go-to tools to attack things that challenge.

Fun fact, in Tim Ferriss' Book, Tools of Titans, it's the most common denominator among his interviewees. These two strategies can help keep you in order and on track.

Sad to see this post did not get much traction so I will mention some of the things that I found useful, even though I am far from a paragon of productivity.

• schedule time with your family and protect it as you would any major work commitment
• there is a myriad of productivity advice out there: nothing had such a profound impact in practice for me as the Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen. Recently I've been trying to implement more and more Deep Work in my life (see Deep Work by Cal Newport)
• dealing with disruptions: acknowledge there will always be disruptions and simply don't allow them to completely derail you. Just make sure to come back to your schedule, define actionable next actions and start executing them.
• for me procrastination is usually a sign of lack of proper planning and specification of next actions.
• I have been increasingly taking my energy cycles more into account. For example I try to schedule mindless admin work for after lunch and I try to tackle cognitively challenging tasks early in the morning when I feel fresh.
• important habits include an evening review (how the day went + preparation of the following day) and a weekly review where I meditate on what I failed in the week that has passed and try to set goals for the week ahead.

It would be fascinating to hear Jordan Peterson comment on these topics.

That you should pursue quality in what you do, it was at the 7th biblical lecture during one of the questions where he got into discussing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that caught me recently.

Trying to bring real quality to the things that you create, and there's a difference between a good and a bad job......

If you're gonna be a plummer that's great! But be a damn good one

> Some things to help point you in the right direction though would be E.B. Whites "The Elements of Style", which will basically lay out everything you need to know to right concisely,

Please, please, please don't. It's absolutely notorious for being full of errors, bad definitions, rules that simply don't exist in modern English, and frequently violating the very rules it teaches. White had no particular training in grammar or editing, and the book even fumbles basic concepts like the difference between active and passive voice and their proper usages. It's really quite a bad book, both ignorant and arrogant.