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Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing

by nikivi 7y ago

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I made a while back. Makes navigating life so much easier when you know where you want to go and can deconstruct the goals into actions. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing Aside from all that I feel like the time I spent optimizing my workflow by learning great tools immensely valuable. I am now at the stage where I build my own tools to solve my own problems. And it feels great. There is still like 2 people out 7 billion that abuse Karabiner to the extent that I do. In some ways it's sad how so many people are missing out on its power. On the other it gives me great leverage. Just need to use it wisely. Another success has been writing in my journal openly for the last 2 years, every month. Been a huge mind cleanser. Here is most recent entry. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-august https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-augus...

mig4ng 7y ago
Hi nikivi, Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements. To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner. Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!
- nikivi 7y ago
  Would be hard for me to move as I rely on some software that is mac only for my productivity. I use Linux as deployment environment. Trying to find time to learn Nix & NixOS. :)
__blockcipher__ 7y ago
At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals. Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough". Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it). [/off topic rambling] To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)
- nikivi 7y ago
  That's interesting. I'm fascinated by psychedelics ever since I tried salvia, I learned just how strange consciousness is or rather our perception of reality. Salvia is so bizarre that it's impossible to put to words, the experience. It's also interesting how unlike other psychedelics it is, like LSD & tryptamines, it doesn't target the serotonin receptors but opioid. I am not a believer in external entities or anything of that kind as I believe all these psychedelics do is show how powerful our brains are in constructing and reconstructing the raw input of the world. It's just so bizarre though that's all even possible. Some interesting threads: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_stress_how_literal_salvia_dissociations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_str... https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_affected_your_belief_in_godthe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_aff... And this GIF is quite accurate in how salvia feels like if you can even describe it. https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv
ijustwanttovote 7y ago
I don't know how I bumped into your knowledge base, but it's been cool to see. I've been stealing a few things here and there.

by nikivi 7y ago

mig4ng 7y ago

Hi nikivi, Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements. To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner. Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!

nikivi 7y ago
Would be hard for me to move as I rely on some software that is mac only for my productivity. I use Linux as deployment environment. Trying to find time to learn Nix & NixOS. :)

__blockcipher__ 7y ago

At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals. Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough". Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it). [/off topic rambling] To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)

nikivi 7y ago
That's interesting. I'm fascinated by psychedelics ever since I tried salvia, I learned just how strange consciousness is or rather our perception of reality. Salvia is so bizarre that it's impossible to put to words, the experience. It's also interesting how unlike other psychedelics it is, like LSD & tryptamines, it doesn't target the serotonin receptors but opioid. I am not a believer in external entities or anything of that kind as I believe all these psychedelics do is show how powerful our brains are in constructing and reconstructing the raw input of the world. It's just so bizarre though that's all even possible. Some interesting threads: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_stress_how_literal_salvia_dissociations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_str... https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_affected_your_belief_in_godthe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_aff... And this GIF is quite accurate in how salvia feels like if you can even describe it. https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv

ijustwanttovote 7y ago

I don't know how I bumped into your knowledge base, but it's been cool to see. I've been stealing a few things here and there.