Well, I don’t like music with lyrics, but even instrumental is distracting for training
I like listening to podcasts during long conditioning though, but that’s because I want to be distracted
Some of us use it primarily to cover up the sounds our bodies make during lifting, haha.
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Ahh well I guess I have the benefit of being young 
@kdjohn I enjoyed it, especially the awesome shadow I created doing Poundstone curls, but @mr.v3lv3t nailed it: it helped that it was an upper body day. On my squat days, the sound my knee makes needs music to drown out, haha.
@anna_5588 No joke: you need to read more philosophy. I find you often saying you don’t understand how people can XYZ. Spending some time getting into someone elses’ headspace will do you a LOT of good there. It helps to read with an intent to understand and appreciate rather than to learn.
AM WORKOUT POST NIGHTSHIFT (0700)
CIRCUITS (squat-row) Plate change rest between sets until last set
Buffalo bar Squat
5xBar
5x140
5x230
5x325
5x365
5x410
T-bar rows 150
5x10
Superset (squat-hyper) 2:00 rest between sets
Buffalo bar squat 365
5x5
Reverse hyper 410
2x10
3x9
20 standing ab wheels
Belt squat stripset
31x150
5x125
5x100
5x75
4x50
4x25
5xAxle
50 dips
25 pushdowns
50 pull aparts
2 hour break
Fran+ (95lb thrusters, strict chins)
21
15
9 (5:06)
5 (5:58)
Notes: Happy with how squats went. One of the benefits of training post night shift is that even though it’s “early”, my joints are all lubed up and I feel fluid. I tend to have a pretty solid bloat from a full night of eating as well. Felt strong. Fran wasn’t any PRs, but again, thrusters were as smooth as ever. Staying awake all day so I can sleep tonight and reset my clock.
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Also, spending time in your own headspace. She’s stated she dislikes introspection, but I’ve been able to learn a lot about people by spending and uncomfortable amount of time analyzing my own thought processes and decisions, then trying to find similar patterns in others. It’s amazing how similar humans are, despite our vast differences.
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A very solid observation as well. Schopenhauer was big on that. Felt that reading was cheap entertainment, and that the true intellect would just spend their time simply thinking.
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I’ve tried and just couldn’t understand it. No joke, I found the the pure maths textbook I went through over break more engaging
I think that’s what I’m missing. I look at most things academically, and I guess my chosen major is somewhat an excuse to look at people from an academic perspective
It wasn’t too long ago you couldn’t understand maths either.
The trouble with this is applying macro scale models of human behaviour to individual humans doesn’t work.
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what makes you think I understand it now 
I’ve found that I can get interested into any subject as long as I dive in (whether I’m willing is a different story)- philosophy seems to be an exception. I’ll probably give it another shot sometime later, when I’m more mature
yep- the samples are generally crap. I’m really excited for what AI and neuroscience is doing/will do for the field
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There is SO much philosophy out there that this sentence makes no sense. It would be like if I said “read books” and you say “I tried that once”
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Philosophical logic is math, in a sense. It’s an equation.
Example:
I make Z decision. Why? Let’s backtrack and find the X and Y that led to that decision. Oh sweet, I understand human behaviour a little more now.
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I borrowed a textbook my friend used for her “intro to philosophy” class. Got lost and bored 1 chapter in.
I figured that if I had trouble understanding the beginning of “intro material” , I’m either not ready or too dumb
I draw the third conclusion that you didn’t want to learn it.
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I found “high school” history dull as fuck. Because in Britain, that means Tudors, Stuarts and how the Roman’s used water to get clean. Recently I’ve started reading and listening to more history since coming across the “Hardcore History” podcast that struck a nerve with me and I’m literally at the point where I can’t figure out what period nor source or angle I want to learn about next.
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I recommend the Mythunderstood podcast.
humourous take on Greek mythology
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I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it, but there’s an educational site called edx.org, where you can audit a ton of courses for free. One I did was called Justice, put together by Harvard. It looks at classical and contemporary theories of justice (what is right, wrong, deserving, etc), using the writings of people from Aristotle to Locke, Kant, Mill, Rawls, etc and applying them to modern topics. You get to watch actual lectures and in class debates. As someone who hasn’t looked too much into philosophy, I thought it was awesome and showed that there really isn’t an easy answer to a lot of questions.
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Definitely. I took one philosophy class in university, that was titled, “Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric.” It was basically looking at arguments and different types of fallacies and the way people may mislead readers/listeners, intentionally or not. It had similarities to math, in that there was a right or wrong answer.
I’m in a philosophy class right now. Definitely struggling to get what the hell the writers are saying.
I’m confused by this. When it comes to reading, I would normally say understanding and learning are pretty similar. Mind explaining what you mean here?
Also, while we’re on the topic of me asking you things, there’s one more question (technically several) that I meant to ask ages ago, but never got around to it.
In the what you learned in 2020 thread, you said:
Is the first one literal stuff, like items? What was your realization there? Just looked around and thought “I don’t need all this.” Or are you saying more like you don’t need as much “stuff” to achieve your goals, like you don’t need as much sleep to get stronger as people say?
And what did you mean by the second point?
Just curious to hear your thoughts behind these.
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Learning in this context would be learning quotes, Nietzsche says this, Schopenhauer says this etc. I really should have picked easier to spell examples there. Understanding would be trying to explore the reasons and thought processes behind the one line quotes.
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By understanding,it’s about getting in their headspace and discovering WHY they think what they think, rather than just learning about WHAT they think.
Regarding your other questions, literal stuff. It wasn’t the looking around and realizing: it was the going without and noticing it had no impact on me. I had to give up a lot of creature comforts with COVID, and was fine in the end.
For the second part: we kept getting told “Just 2 weeks to flatten the curve”, and so we’d knuckle down and live isolated for 2 weeks, only to reach the end and hear “Ok, two MORE weeks”. At one point, the Mrs and I realized we hadn’t had a date night for 6 months, because we stopped scheduling them because we kept thinking we just needed to wait 2 MORE weeks and then life would be normal again. We knocked that off and just started living our lives again.
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