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Just get some dwarf grass 😎 Only needs mowing 1 or 2 times a year, doesn't grow much longer than six inches and some varieties even have some nice little flowers in them.
Man, neurodivergent folks being hard-wired to be process focused is such an advantage. Too bad we suck at picking any one process to actually be focused on...
I'm not sure it is. Just out of personal experience, there are a few issues that arise. First, you have already addressed the scatter brain, second would be social obstacles that are experienced, which are more important than people realize imo.
The trick is to trap yourself in a sterile environment with nothing but the processes you're focused on. Either that, or focus on self help and discipline .
I was lucky to find somebody. That is really good at giving direction and is thoughtful. After experiencing this in my own life. I found out about a strategy to calm down aggressive out of control male elephants, introduce a bull elephant and the rest calm down. It is amazing how it has worked similar in my own life and my chaotic brain.
As a man who dreams of lifting every strength stone in the world “you must pick up a boulder in your life” is the most powerful statement I’ve ever heard
For hypertrophy, yes spending more time under tension per rep, particularly with pauses at the stretch and peak contraction of a rep is scientifically proven to be superior. However, to train close to failure your final few reps should break down a bit.
I have found my boulder; restoring the natural habitat in my area. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos needs to be protected, so that means taking out the invasives, protecting what is present and planting/seeding what is missing. So if I work hard and take out the invasives that should take me a few years. During and after that I can plant the natives in, that is another few years. Then, after that, is the fire cycles. Each fire cycle is between 8-15 years, so you burn the field, and monitor what comes up, both natives and invasives, and manage accordingly. Now repeat that for at least 3 fire cycles to get it to a stable level. That means if I do everything right I am looking at the next 30-50 years looking out for that field. I tell you what though, it is so rewarding to see things grow and develop. I am happy with my boulder. All the best from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region.
I think that I'm Sisyphus some times when I work at Coles pushing 12 trolleys up concrete ramps. I put the trolleys there, Go to get more... And the ones from before have all disappeared. It's a never-ending cycle.
The paradox of Sisyphus is that he is content to push the boulder endlessly because that is the secret to immortality that Sisyphus had discovered. The punishment is the reward depending on your perspective.
If lifting weights, do it slowly on the way down (2-3 seconds), pause at the bottom of the rep for about a second, and then lift it up quickly but with good form (explosive control).
“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.” ― Eduardo Galeano
I used do the night shift for him I used to hide the rock under a rock and pretended to look bugged in the morning. He never sussed a thing, paid in cash too.
Self improvement was my boulder, as in I was always looking for ways to improve myself. However now that I'm slowly dying from cancer my boulder is staying alive.
Exercising slowly has different advantages to exercising quickly. Fast exercise increases the strength in twitch muscle groups, slow exercise builds large muscle groups. Fastly is not a word.
It's like dieting. You don't change what you eat, you change your lifestyle. I may not ever be Dimebag Darell or Nirvana, but I can live my life to the principles of what their inspiration has evoked in me, and I idolise and emulate the essences what I admire in them rather than emulating and idolising the person and personality which they have already lived.
I watched David Foster-Wallace's "This is Water" speech for the first time yesterday and I'd recommend it to those that haven't seen it yet. It's a good follow on to what Jordan's talking about here. He essentially explains to a bunch of fresh grads for the exact thing here about Sisyphus' boulder/The Infinite Game, and how he's been playing it
Was falling asleep to this until I heard an exercise question!! Slow work out! Better mind muscle connection and more time spent with muscles doing work. Fast also probably has poorer form. At least speaking about weight training, fast is good for cardio vascular exercises like running.
The selfaware moment a I am cleaning, tidying sorting, TRYING to clean this ever messy bombsite that is my room. When it's done, historically speaking, it's only a matter of time till I need That thing that cleaned away, and BOOM messPlosion, DirtyBomb, whatever, shit gets flipped nd it's months before I can spiritually prepare myself to do it again.
2:54 Each time he pushes that fucking boulder he discovers a new techinique, way of using his body, a new way of looking at things. And that shit is transferrable.
Imagine we were all going to go on a boat. But the boat isn't going to go anywhere in particular, and isn't trying to achieve anything on the voyage, were all just going to be happy and enjoy the process 😂😂
Sisyphus is described as always believing he is able to crest the summit, he is never of the belief he is not capable of this act, therefore he is a man whose focus batts away any mania or sadness.
No, you will not always feel depressed. You'll feel sad from time to time, but if you learn to focus on the little things in your life, and to focus externally on the people you care about rather than focusing inside all the time, your depression will go away. Mine did. And you might say you are sad because you are lonely, that you have nobody caring about you, but that's: A) Usually false. B) Doesn't matter. What matters is that YOU care about someone and then for some inexplicable reason, people will start to care about you more.
Nah it's ur internal response to external factors. Dont focus on external things. Focus on your internal reaction and feelings to external things. If you master your internal state and world view you are a master of ur environment.
@@Rissen_ yupp, this makes sense. I had to do a ton of meditating before I was even able to understand that I needed to focus outside a bit more. And what I mean is yes you focus on your feelings on external things, but you also need to try to make those feelings positive, and view them in a more positive light than you'd normally default to while depressed.
Working out your muscles fastly is good if you can still maintain your form as you'll be able to get in a extra rep or two, but working out slowly is also good because it helps more with your mind muscle connection and will get you more out of the negative half of the rep which is the most muscle building part of the rep by far. So each are good in thier own way. Edit: Fastly is indeed a word which I did not know, I just wanted to use it because you said it in the video
Y’know, this reminds of one Adrian Carton de Wiart, a British officer during the Great War and a very interesting man who’s most remembered for the quote “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war.” Now, while this statement does sound, and probably is, wee little bit psychopathic, I can’t help but think that if he did actually enjoy the process of soldiering (which if you read writings, he most likely did), then it would have been a whole hell of a lot easier to cope with the eternal stress of trench warfare, over those who became immortally depressed both during and after the war. Or he was just mad idk.
It depends on what kind of muscle you wanna build aswell as your race, that's joke about black fast twitch muscle fibre is correct, if you want explosive power workout using swift explosive movements, if you want staying power do it slowly.
I am Sisyphus. Everytime I start to get on top of shit, or I get that shit to the top, buddaddabuddadda Oh jeez Aunt Bundy fell down them dang stairs again, buddaddah buddahdaa , oh dear lord help, budddaddadhnud, please Jordieswhy I am i still falling down these god dang stairs. And up we go again, Imma make it this time. But you get to where the top was, and now it's higher, and I think, "sweet maybe this IS the way." But how far can you pull the slingshot back before it breaks
11:45 Don't be afraid of frustration, trying shit and your body just don't do What YOUI WANT, yet, that frustrating feeling, like your covered in ants and just want to go AHHHH, When you'r brain says fuck this this is embarassing stop even when you're by yourself, Fuck all those words off that's just the staysafe part of you labelling dangers, The feeling, like melting solid concrete into a brick wall at room temperature, just keep mashing it slug, It don't feel like it'll give, but it will,Then it's like getting another limb, like being able to manipulate time. Frustration is the name of what it feels like when the brain is learning a new complex procedure, that's the feeling of you're brain flexing, Process orientation can alleviate the emotional connection to frustrati0n and learning, Instead of my goal being typing at 500wpm, my goal is type 15 minutes/day. That's it. Now I would say 15 minutes per day at a level I can do task perfectly, Eg typing, I 100% that fucker at 8-9 words a minute, and then, at a point you don't notice at first, your body just let's rip while you're thinking about what to season the mushrooms with. Process/ time orientation then means you can do whatever the fuck you want when times up without worrying you should do more blah blah, you've already got yiou're schedule planned, AND that's my time for today. Fuck there's stil 2 minutes of playtime, it's taken 2 hours to get this far, And this is just chewing, haven't started digesting yet
If you haven’t yet, you’ve gotta read The Myth of Sisyphus and then also The Rebel if you’re interested in Absurdism from these people online talking about it. Don’t be like the stoicism lads who only read Meditations (or, even worse, only read quotes from it). Other books worth checking out are Existentialism is a Humanism, Being and Nothingness and The Ethics of Ambiguity.
I can see most people who call themselves life coaches being hypocritical crypto investbros,who probably started out with good intentions but moved into thinking they know everything.
Hey the art example used is kind of weird because funnily enough big art schools actually don't really teach you how to draw they are so focused on contemporary and modern art they barely touch on the most important parts if you want to get better at drawing surprisingly the best way to learn is through universities like CDW or CGMA which are primarily focused on making art for entertainment so unless you want to work in a gallery or try to get your stuff displayed at a gallery don't go to art school
Question: There is choosing your boulder and the process of getting up the hill, What makes the cunt come back down? Is that important to recognise, is it always gonna be there, will there always be something, Is it a representation of your true boulder or is it something to snowball and incorporate into the boulder?
Here's my advice: Don't push the boulder. Say, "fuck it," let other people pointlessly push boulders, and just do whatever. Take a nap, read a book, just lay in a field making whistle noises with a grass blade. Doesn't matter, better than pushing some stupid boulder. Unless you love pushing boulders; then do that, I ain't your boss.
6:42Nah man you've done so good , by 30..ish say, but you gotta keep pushing that rock for a long time yet. ***coughcough** Gather round kids, *hakcough* let me tell you the story of how I took down the gubment *coughhakcough** " Awww Grandad Friendly you always tell us that one, tell us another..." ***zzzzzzzzzzzzz****
5:0 Don't see alot of people laughing at bus stops mate, in fact, I think the homeless people are the ones laughing at the people waiting for the bus, and if time/reality only exists in the present moment, then the only difference between them in that moment, is that one group is about to sit in a disgusting dangerous unhygenic environment, and the other group is without a home, BUS WANKER!sorrysorrysorrysorry.
Maybe I could take your advice much more seriously if you weren't always opening your videos with imagery of Jeffrey Epstein's Island and a pervert's soundtrack.
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That ‘one must imagine Sisyphus happy’ quote comes from Albert Camus.
The struggle itself to the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Which explains why it’s bollocks. Fucking modern philosophers. No wonder the modern world is ideologically fucked.
Camus these nuts
I think about Sisyphus while mowing the lawn.
Same!
Just get some dwarf grass 😎 Only needs mowing 1 or 2 times a year, doesn't grow much longer than six inches and some varieties even have some nice little flowers in them.
Man, neurodivergent folks being hard-wired to be process focused is such an advantage. Too bad we suck at picking any one process to actually be focused on...
"we" ?
@@googm myself included...
I'm not sure it is. Just out of personal experience, there are a few issues that arise. First, you have already addressed the scatter brain, second would be social obstacles that are experienced, which are more important than people realize imo.
The trick is to trap yourself in a sterile environment with nothing but the processes you're focused on. Either that, or focus on self help and discipline .
I was lucky to find somebody. That is really good at giving direction and is thoughtful. After experiencing this in my own life. I found out about a strategy to calm down aggressive out of control male elephants, introduce a bull elephant and the rest calm down. It is amazing how it has worked similar in my own life and my chaotic brain.
As a man who dreams of lifting every strength stone in the world “you must pick up a boulder in your life” is the most powerful statement I’ve ever heard
For hypertrophy, yes spending more time under tension per rep, particularly with pauses at the stretch and peak contraction of a rep is scientifically proven to be superior. However, to train close to failure your final few reps should break down a bit.
I have found my boulder; restoring the natural habitat in my area.
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos needs to be protected, so that means taking out the invasives, protecting what is present and planting/seeding what is missing.
So if I work hard and take out the invasives that should take me a few years. During and after that I can plant the natives in, that is another few years. Then, after that, is the fire cycles. Each fire cycle is between 8-15 years, so you burn the field, and monitor what comes up, both natives and invasives, and manage accordingly. Now repeat that for at least 3 fire cycles to get it to a stable level.
That means if I do everything right I am looking at the next 30-50 years looking out for that field. I tell you what though, it is so rewarding to see things grow and develop. I am happy with my boulder.
All the best from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region.
I think that I'm Sisyphus some times when I work at Coles pushing 12 trolleys up concrete ramps. I put the trolleys there, Go to get more... And the ones from before have all disappeared. It's a never-ending cycle.
The paradox of Sisyphus is that he is content to push the boulder endlessly because that is the secret to immortality that Sisyphus had discovered.
The punishment is the reward depending on your perspective.
If lifting weights, do it slowly on the way down (2-3 seconds), pause at the bottom of the rep for about a second, and then lift it up quickly but with good form (explosive control).
He had a routine, though it was a tough and rigorous one, having something to do is better than wallowing in apathy because apathy is death.
Thank you for your never ending work. Our minds are so powerful.
“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
― Eduardo Galeano
I used do the night shift for him
I used to hide the rock under a rock and pretended to look bugged in the morning. He never sussed a thing, paid in cash too.
I saved this video, because I am likely looking back at this. Thank you, Jordan.
Self improvement was my boulder, as in I was always looking for ways to improve myself. However now that I'm slowly dying from cancer my boulder is staying alive.
He always had something to work towards
Thanks bro i needed to hear that.
Love that you dont allow the monitisation eligibility dictact how you shape your stories
The timing of that commercial at 4:20 omg!!
Jordan: "People like--"
Commercial: Cars
thanks jordan
The reason I struggle to sit down and learn network+ isn’t because it’s not challenging enough.
The myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is where the quote comes from
Exercising slowly has different advantages to exercising quickly. Fast exercise increases the strength in twitch muscle groups, slow exercise builds large muscle groups. Fastly is not a word.
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I do love your sales pitches Jorden
interesting stuff mate, keep up the banger content
Push your boulder towards the PMs office Jordan. How fun would politics be with PM Shanks!
It's like dieting. You don't change what you eat, you change your lifestyle.
I may not ever be Dimebag Darell or Nirvana, but I can live my life to the principles of what their inspiration has evoked in me, and I idolise and emulate the essences what I admire in them rather than emulating and idolising the person and personality which they have already lived.
I watched David Foster-Wallace's "This is Water" speech for the first time yesterday and I'd recommend it to those that haven't seen it yet. It's a good follow on to what Jordan's talking about here. He essentially explains to a bunch of fresh grads for the exact thing here about Sisyphus' boulder/The Infinite Game, and how he's been playing it
Camus is the best philosopher. Highly recommend "The Myth of Sisyphus" (where the opening quote's from).
The word is quickly and you want to do both for the optimal workout, someone said it, but the quote is from Camus
Was falling asleep to this until I heard an exercise question!!
Slow work out! Better mind muscle connection and more time spent with muscles doing work. Fast also probably has poorer form. At least speaking about weight training, fast is good for cardio vascular exercises like running.
Satisfaction Vs Love
The selfaware moment a I am cleaning, tidying sorting, TRYING to clean this ever messy bombsite that is my room. When it's done, historically speaking, it's only a matter of time till I need That thing that cleaned away, and BOOM messPlosion, DirtyBomb, whatever, shit gets flipped nd it's months before I can spiritually prepare myself to do it again.
2:54
Each time he pushes that fucking boulder he discovers a new techinique, way of using his body, a new way of looking at things. And that shit is transferrable.
Cpt here, it’s better to have a slower tempo when doing an eccentric movement for muscle activating and for insulin like growth factor.
Imagine we were all going to go on a boat. But the boat isn't going to go anywhere in particular, and isn't trying to achieve anything on the voyage, were all just going to be happy and enjoy the process 😂😂
Muscle growth comes from time under tension, doing 10 slow reps is better than 10 fast reps at the same weight.
Sisyphus is described as always believing he is able to crest the summit, he is never of the belief he is not capable of this act, therefore he is a man whose focus batts away any mania or sadness.
No, you will not always feel depressed.
You'll feel sad from time to time, but if you learn to focus on the little things in your life,
and to focus externally on the people you care about rather than focusing inside all the time,
your depression will go away. Mine did.
And you might say you are sad because you are lonely, that you have nobody caring about you, but that's:
A) Usually false.
B) Doesn't matter. What matters is that YOU care about someone and then for some inexplicable reason, people will start to care about you more.
Nah it's ur internal response to external factors. Dont focus on external things. Focus on your internal reaction and feelings to external things. If you master your internal state and world view you are a master of ur environment.
@@Rissen_ yupp, this makes sense.
I had to do a ton of meditating before I was even able to understand that I needed to focus outside a bit more.
And what I mean is yes you focus on your feelings on external things, but you also need to try to make those feelings positive, and view them in a more positive light than you'd normally default to while depressed.
@@0ne0fmany 100% agree with that 👍
My ex boyfriend had sisyphus
One must imagine him in his prime
"You're all cogs... act like one!!"
Looks like Mr Shanks has been watching some RFK Jr.
Sisyphus? Yeah, my favourite Chicago album.
Working out your muscles fastly is good if you can still maintain your form as you'll be able to get in a extra rep or two, but working out slowly is also good because it helps more with your mind muscle connection and will get you more out of the negative half of the rep which is the most muscle building part of the rep by far. So each are good in thier own way.
Edit: Fastly is indeed a word which I did not know, I just wanted to use it because you said it in the video
Thanks for making a whole video about my one little comment on your Stoicism video. Now do one about Diogenes and Cynicism
One must imagine Sisyphus working smarter 🤣
No U2 on his Ipod.
Processes and mai taining yourself and your relatio ships seems a better guarantee of success than any goal you could accomplish.
Y’know, this reminds of one Adrian Carton de Wiart, a British officer during the Great War and a very interesting man who’s most remembered for the quote “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war.” Now, while this statement does sound, and probably is, wee little bit psychopathic, I can’t help but think that if he did actually enjoy the process of soldiering (which if you read writings, he most likely did), then it would have been a whole hell of a lot easier to cope with the eternal stress of trench warfare, over those who became immortally depressed both during and after the war. Or he was just mad idk.
What is Syphilis? And should i be willing to obtain it?
Is this connected to Oompaville’s book club doing The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus?
7:00 😂😂
What about Atlas?
because he was swoll as fuck i bet.
It depends on what kind of muscle you wanna build aswell as your race, that's joke about black fast twitch muscle fibre is correct, if you want explosive power workout using swift explosive movements, if you want staying power do it slowly.
I am Sisyphus.
Everytime I start to get on top of shit, or I get that shit to the top,
buddaddabuddadda
Oh jeez Aunt Bundy fell down them dang stairs again,
buddaddah buddahdaa ,
oh dear lord help,
budddaddadhnud,
please Jordieswhy I am i still falling down these god dang stairs.
And up we go again, Imma make it this time.
But you get to where the top was, and now it's higher,
and I think, "sweet maybe this IS the way."
But how far can you pull the slingshot back before it breaks
Don't be a sissy be a sissyphus.
one must imagine Jordie happy.
makes sense dawg
I have that shirt
3:30 shit no more typing after this.
It depends on what you want to do, A master would do both.
11:45 Don't be afraid of frustration, trying shit and your body just don't do What YOUI WANT, yet, that frustrating feeling, like your covered in ants and just want to go AHHHH, When you'r brain says fuck this this is embarassing stop even when you're by yourself,
Fuck all those words off that's just the staysafe part of you labelling dangers, The feeling, like melting solid concrete into a brick wall at room temperature, just keep mashing it slug, It don't feel like it'll give, but it will,Then it's like getting another limb, like being able to manipulate time.
Frustration is the name of what it feels like when the brain is learning a new complex procedure, that's the feeling of you're brain flexing,
Process orientation can alleviate the emotional connection to frustrati0n and learning, Instead of my goal being typing at 500wpm, my goal is type 15 minutes/day. That's it. Now I would say 15 minutes per day at a level I can do task perfectly, Eg typing, I 100% that fucker at 8-9 words a minute, and then, at a point you don't notice at first, your body just let's rip while you're thinking about what to season the mushrooms with.
Process/ time orientation then means you can do whatever the fuck you want when times up without worrying you should do more blah blah, you've already got yiou're schedule planned,
AND that's my time for today. Fuck there's stil 2 minutes of playtime, it's taken 2 hours to get this far, And this is just chewing, haven't started digesting yet
I really expected to watch a video about absurdism but I don't even know what this video is about Jordan. Very strange.
If you haven’t yet, you’ve gotta read The Myth of Sisyphus and then also The Rebel if you’re interested in Absurdism from these people online talking about it. Don’t be like the stoicism lads who only read Meditations (or, even worse, only read quotes from it). Other books worth checking out are Existentialism is a Humanism, Being and Nothingness and The Ethics of Ambiguity.
Oh. This is actually a self help channel. Fancy that.
I can see most people who call themselves life coaches being hypocritical crypto investbros,who probably started out with good intentions but moved into thinking they know everything.
Hey the art example used is kind of weird because funnily enough big art schools actually don't really teach you how to draw they are so focused on contemporary and modern art they barely touch on the most important parts if you want to get better at drawing surprisingly the best way to learn is through universities like CDW or CGMA which are primarily focused on making art for entertainment so unless you want to work in a gallery or try to get your stuff displayed at a gallery don't go to art school
Why does all self help sound exhausting?
Question: There is choosing your boulder and the process of getting up the hill, What makes the cunt come back down? Is that important to recognise, is it always gonna be there, will there always be something, Is it a representation of your true boulder or is it something to snowball and incorporate into the boulder?
This is basically The Climb by Miley Cyrus
Here's my advice: Don't push the boulder. Say, "fuck it," let other people pointlessly push boulders, and just do whatever. Take a nap, read a book, just lay in a field making whistle noises with a grass blade. Doesn't matter, better than pushing some stupid boulder. Unless you love pushing boulders; then do that, I ain't your boss.
Look at this dood
You mean "quickly". Also, depends on what you want to get out of "fitness"
Look into Albert cumus and the philosophy of absurdism for more into the one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
6:42Nah man you've done so good , by 30..ish say, but you gotta keep pushing that rock for a long time yet.
***coughcough** Gather round kids, *hakcough* let me tell you the story of how I took down the gubment *coughhakcough**
" Awww Grandad Friendly you always tell us that one, tell us another..."
***zzzzzzzzzzzzz****
kuafu chases the sun
I put Sisyphus in my hsc creative writing this year. Better get good marks or else Im saying Jordan told me to
nice
Uh That was you wasn't it? Bro?
Here's a nice comment 👍
First comment
Thankyou
Albert Camus
I just got 'like' no. 666
Pretty good..just thought I'd mention that..
Prometheus
5:0 Don't see alot of people laughing at bus stops mate,
in fact,
I think the homeless people are the ones laughing at the people waiting for the bus, and if time/reality only exists in the present moment,
then the only difference between them in that moment,
is that one group is about to sit in a disgusting dangerous unhygenic environment, and the other group is
without a home,
BUS WANKER!sorrysorrysorrysorry.
Ffaarrk😅
n
Maybe I could take your advice much more seriously if you weren't always opening your videos with imagery of Jeffrey Epstein's Island and a pervert's soundtrack.