victorwho86

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Being Normal Made Me Miserable(victorrotariu.com)
17 points by victorwho86 5y ago|2 comments
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by victorwho86 5y ago
yes, you are, sorry for the inconvenience
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by victorwho86 5y ago
I checked. You are not subscribed. Turns out I had a problem with MailChimp and the subscribe was not working. Please do it again. Sorry for the annoyance.
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by victorwho86 5y ago
When I say a certain environment, I mean wild nature. The jungle and the mountains are more similar than the modern city. I suggest our biological adaptation cannot keep up with the rate of man-made change. The Internet dominates our lives
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by victorwho86 5y ago
I think it's incredible how Buddism and Stoicism arrived at such similar perspectives. And they are both incredibly relevant hundreds of years later. I like the analogy with school bullies :) Replying here to "F.ex. I want to live
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by victorwho86 5y ago
<That's not weakness. That's compromising with your nature that you cannot override.> That's kinda the point of the article. But I do believe you can change the environment and your model of the world, so that this huma
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by victorwho86 5y ago
I had that problem when I moved in the mountains last year. Bought a LARQ bottle (UV disinfection) and fixed it with little effort. Kaladyn also makes good UV disinfection I believe.
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by victorwho86 5y ago
I sometimes write about food choices on the blog: https://victorrotariu.com/ and on medium: https://victorrotariu.medium.com/ But I can sum them up: No sugar (e.g. sucrose), ever. This includes honey, fruit
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by victorwho86 5y ago
Thanks, this is a really interesting discussion I am familiar with David Goggins. He is quite amazing. I think what he does in some ways is mind of human body, but in other ways is an expression of human nature. Let me explain. I was probab
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by victorwho86 5y ago
I think the difference is that now we live in an artificial environment with new problems. few people would have had vitamin D insufficiency before industrialization
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by victorwho86 5y ago
bad water in the sense that it is contaminated or...?
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by victorwho86 5y ago
thanks for the interesting perspective I think my realization was that it's not about 'who I am' but rather about what I do. So the breakthrough was not caring how an action affects my image (e.g. appearing weak) but rather a
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by victorwho86 5y ago
Thank you Good point about the source of my worries about weakness. At the core it's about living up to who I aspire to be. Moments of 'weakness' are like sliding back from that towards the lazy instant gratification monkey.
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by victorwho86 5y ago
wow, thank you I have a newsletter if you want to get posts like this in the inbox <wink> <wink> https://victorrotariu.com/
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by victorwho86 5y ago
thank you, very kind and useful part of the self-therapy of this post was for me to exorcize this framework of 'weak' and 'strong'
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On Weakness(victorrotariu.com)
90 points by victorwho86 5y ago|47 comments
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by victorwho86 5y ago
From what I know there is no scientific proof of this practice because there has been no investigation to measure its effects. The closest to a test of dopamine fasting is to look at other practices that reduce dopamine, like meditation and
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Dopamine. What is it and why you should care(victorrotariu.com)
6 points by victorwho86 5y ago|6 comments
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The pandemic 60 years ago was fought better than Covid(wsj.com)
2 points by victorwho86 5y ago|0 comments
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by victorwho86 5y ago
good tactic :) I observe the same virtue signaling. It's a very powerful belief. Recently someone told me they had to watch Game Changers 10 times because it seemed illogical. But now the same person thinks it's gospel. There are
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You Are Hyper-Carnivore(victorrotariu.com)
9 points by victorwho86 5y ago|2 comments
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You know nothing Jon Snow. And neither does anybody else(victorrotariu.com)
11 points by victorwho86 5y ago|0 comments
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The Oldest Manipulation Tool in the World(victorrotariu.com)
2 points by victorwho86 5y ago|0 comments