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My the most fruitful approach is to wall myself off anything which wastes my cognitive ability. No smartphone except of regular calls, no websites with animatio

My the most fruitful approach is to wall myself off anything which wastes my cognitive ability. No smartphone except of regular calls, no websites with animations, no any books or articles which contains some words I consider as "bad". Less attention to dull people. Appreciate when your brain suddenly remembers for you something unexpected like the fact which was sitting here for tens of years without any use before you have remembered it successfully, any time I meet this I think deeply about how is it possible to remember anything for so long. Living without any mood disturbances is my top priority.

MeetingsBrowser 2y ago
Is there any research supporting this method, or is it an original approach you've developed yourself?
- eimrine 2y ago
  The approach is research-based but I am not saving these researches for re-reading because my favorite scientific field is Math and Programming, not Medicine. For example, there are a lot of studies about a harm of smartphones, especially for the younger generation. I do not consider myself young, but if I want to be as productive as a youngster I must to follow good practices for youngsters. I have never seen any study about usefulness of smartphones for anything like human body (except of business) so I do not feel like I have said anything controversial. Ignoring books with "bad" words is something I did not invented, it is something obvious and still deserves to be recommended. If I am researching some "abcde" and I have figured up that "xyz" approach is wrong despite any popularity so why to bother about xyz instead of having free memory for something else? I just forgot the scientist who told a lot on this way of discovery. There are a lot of people who claim that the key to their productivity is calm, I recommend you to get started with Stoic philosophy as one of the most fruitful researches in human history.
unshavedyak 2y ago
My concern here is i think we substitute (brain) exercise with mundane (brain) sugars like Social Media, Youtube, infinite scrolls, etc. Removing those is good, but you have to put something back in their place, lest you lose the muscle entirely. Cognitive use is linked (i believe?) to holding off various aging diseases, so ensuring you're using what you don't want to lose seems to be the most important thing. Exercise for all things. How do you approach brain exercise?
- eimrine 2y ago
  I do not consider Youtube bad because I never look at it. It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks. What about living with no smartphone, I do not need to put anything instead of it because I have recognized the malice of this technology really early, because when I see a human with smartphone, the most similar situation I can name is the relations between a human and a dog, and this never cease to amuze me that the dog in this relation is the smartphonee, not the smartphone. Android 2 was beautiful and never tried to enslave me, Android 4 was beautiful technically but its UX started to rot in the meaning of something not exactly for its users. "Use it or lose it" is a motto of my brain exercises, my focus is not to lose learning abilities. Innocent things like brushing your teeth with not a regular arm but with another (left for most of people) gives surprising results in the long run but the best brain exercise by far is trying to teach someone at something complicated (Math, Programming, Martial arts, Music).
  - badpun 2y ago
    You will lose your congnitive abilities either way, due to old age. Do you have higher purpose behind trying to retain them for as long as possible?
    - eimrine 2y ago
      Of course I will lose it - literally every day at least few neurons die irreversably. My higher purpose is having fun, but I associate the fun quantity of myself with ability to process Math information. Mathematics is the coolest thing among anything I know.
  - unshavedyak 2y ago
    > It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks. Yea, i was mostly saying that because it actively promotes such vapid content with ease. It's attention-seeking-algorithms to the max, like social media in general. Just because it _can_ be good, doesn't mean it is by default imo. Social media in general can also be good, but i wouldn't say it is in general.
BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago
Why books though?
- eimrine 2y ago
  Sorry for bad grammar, the key in that sentence is "bad words". I use to read a huge number of books about some bleeding edge and it is important to have your own understanding of your way. For example, I love Blockchain technology, but anything like "private blochchain" tells me I need to abandon the whole work. That attitude allows me to read a lot of books.
  - BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago
    But how do you detect that this bad words is bad unless you really deep down all the resources to study. And how you remove bias, appeal to authority fallacy etc.
    - eimrine 2y ago
      This is a taste question, and all of my bias problems derive to a way of spending my time. Do you know what taste is? You always can tell when somebody has a worse taste than you but if two persons have a better taste than you each - you have no ability to tell who is better. Reducing the domain area - a hacker method to improve memory.

MeetingsBrowser 2y ago

Is there any research supporting this method, or is it an original approach you've developed yourself?

eimrine 2y ago
The approach is research-based but I am not saving these researches for re-reading because my favorite scientific field is Math and Programming, not Medicine. For example, there are a lot of studies about a harm of smartphones, especially for the younger generation. I do not consider myself young, but if I want to be as productive as a youngster I must to follow good practices for youngsters. I have never seen any study about usefulness of smartphones for anything like human body (except of business) so I do not feel like I have said anything controversial. Ignoring books with "bad" words is something I did not invented, it is something obvious and still deserves to be recommended. If I am researching some "abcde" and I have figured up that "xyz" approach is wrong despite any popularity so why to bother about xyz instead of having free memory for something else? I just forgot the scientist who told a lot on this way of discovery. There are a lot of people who claim that the key to their productivity is calm, I recommend you to get started with Stoic philosophy as one of the most fruitful researches in human history.

unshavedyak 2y ago

My concern here is i think we substitute (brain) exercise with mundane (brain) sugars like Social Media, Youtube, infinite scrolls, etc. Removing those is good, but you have to put something back in their place, lest you lose the muscle entirely. Cognitive use is linked (i believe?) to holding off various aging diseases, so ensuring you're using what you don't want to lose seems to be the most important thing. Exercise for all things. How do you approach brain exercise?

eimrine 2y ago
I do not consider Youtube bad because I never look at it. It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks. What about living with no smartphone, I do not need to put anything instead of it because I have recognized the malice of this technology really early, because when I see a human with smartphone, the most similar situation I can name is the relations between a human and a dog, and this never cease to amuze me that the dog in this relation is the smartphonee, not the smartphone. Android 2 was beautiful and never tried to enslave me, Android 4 was beautiful technically but its UX started to rot in the meaning of something not exactly for its users. "Use it or lose it" is a motto of my brain exercises, my focus is not to lose learning abilities. Innocent things like brushing your teeth with not a regular arm but with another (left for most of people) gives surprising results in the long run but the best brain exercise by far is trying to teach someone at something complicated (Math, Programming, Martial arts, Music).
- badpun 2y ago
  You will lose your congnitive abilities either way, due to old age. Do you have higher purpose behind trying to retain them for as long as possible?
  - eimrine 2y ago
    Of course I will lose it - literally every day at least few neurons die irreversably. My higher purpose is having fun, but I associate the fun quantity of myself with ability to process Math information. Mathematics is the coolest thing among anything I know.
- unshavedyak 2y ago
  > It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks. Yea, i was mostly saying that because it actively promotes such vapid content with ease. It's attention-seeking-algorithms to the max, like social media in general. Just because it _can_ be good, doesn't mean it is by default imo. Social media in general can also be good, but i wouldn't say it is in general.

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago

Why books though?

eimrine 2y ago
Sorry for bad grammar, the key in that sentence is "bad words". I use to read a huge number of books about some bleeding edge and it is important to have your own understanding of your way. For example, I love Blockchain technology, but anything like "private blochchain" tells me I need to abandon the whole work. That attitude allows me to read a lot of books.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago
  But how do you detect that this bad words is bad unless you really deep down all the resources to study. And how you remove bias, appeal to authority fallacy etc.
  - eimrine 2y ago
    This is a taste question, and all of my bias problems derive to a way of spending my time. Do you know what taste is? You always can tell when somebody has a worse taste than you but if two persons have a better taste than you each - you have no ability to tell who is better. Reducing the domain area - a hacker method to improve memory.