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Both Dali and Edison did not have families and children to rise. They were multimillionaries also. If you are also childless and multimillionaire, you can exper

by thesz 5y ago

Both Dali and Edison did not have families and children to rise. They were multimillionaries also. If you are also childless and multimillionaire, you can experiment with what essentially a sleep deprivation, having hallutinations that are useful in a work of... genius? Also, in case of Edison, he used an army of assistants to comb through his ideas and patents avaiable at the time to find what is useful. Again, a privilege of multimillionaire These techniques cannot be used by a person who have to walk a dog early every morning, help his son to go to a school and work with complex code base.

vernon99 5y ago
A comment from a passerby. You say it like this is something you don’t have agency over (at least early on). It’s like saying that “yeah, you cannot be a good painter if you are solving math problems all the time”. Same with childless multimillionaires - it’s not like you are born into being one.
- rnd0 5y ago
  >Same with childless multimillionaires - it’s not like you are born into being one. I'm reasonably sure you're not saying no one is born into wealth, and I'm equally sure that all multimillionaires are born childless
bener 5y ago
You could quite easily use this technique when your child is in bed, before your usual bedtime. It would be an interesting thing to try in the evening when you're stuck on a coding problem. It's only really useful if you can get to that stage of N1 sleep quite quickly anyway so it wouldn't apply to all people. I don't think it's the domain of childless millionaires.
aydwi 5y ago
> These techniques cannot be used by a person who have to walk a dog early every morning, help his son to go to a school and work with complex code base. Of course they can. Just not by you. Mutual exclusion does not apply here.

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Both Dali and Edison did not have families and children to rise. They were multimillionaries also. If you are also childless and multimillionaire, you can exper

by thesz 5y ago

vernon99 5y ago
A comment from a passerby. You say it like this is something you don’t have agency over (at least early on). It’s like saying that “yeah, you cannot be a good painter if you are solving math problems all the time”. Same with childless multimillionaires - it’s not like you are born into being one.
- rnd0 5y ago
  >Same with childless multimillionaires - it’s not like you are born into being one. I'm reasonably sure you're not saying no one is born into wealth, and I'm equally sure that all multimillionaires are born childless
bener 5y ago
You could quite easily use this technique when your child is in bed, before your usual bedtime. It would be an interesting thing to try in the evening when you're stuck on a coding problem. It's only really useful if you can get to that stage of N1 sleep quite quickly anyway so it wouldn't apply to all people. I don't think it's the domain of childless millionaires.
aydwi 5y ago
> These techniques cannot be used by a person who have to walk a dog early every morning, help his son to go to a school and work with complex code base. Of course they can. Just not by you. Mutual exclusion does not apply here.