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About tweaking the fundamental settings of your brain

by bfoks on 3/16/24, 10:47 PM with 22 comments

• by politelemon on 3/17/24, 8:14 AM

  I'm struggling to understand and even read this. The author ought to be using headings instead of so many bullet points, which are meant for a tight group of short related points, not paragraph separators.

  But trying to look past that I'm still failing to understand that this is about it what you're meant you be doing.

• by zvmaz on 3/17/24, 9:43 AM

  The author should perhaps tone down and clarify his writing, and thus be more respectful of his readers.

• by Slow_Hand on 3/17/24, 8:38 PM

  Who is the author? I'm looking for more context on them and their writing and cannot divine anything from the website that would identify them. It's almost as if they're withholding their identity.

• by PlasmonOwl on 3/17/24, 8:49 AM

  So basically half of this is in an indirect form to practice the skills of meditation?

• by senectus1 on 3/17/24, 8:06 AM

  good lord, what is this unreadable rubbish?

• by protoman3000 on 3/17/24, 9:05 AM

  > Note 2: do not fix with cognition what can be fixed with chemistry. Before anything else, your brain is a biological machine.

  No no no. Stop with the senseless proliferation of pills. If pills were the solution we would not see the huge need for talk therapy - which works only if there is a genuine therapeutic relationship. If you think this further, if you’re in a situation where your therapist is the only non-toxic person in your environment and the only person you can truly connect to, then it’s not your “brain chemistry” but the toxic environment you need to get out of. Don’t take pills to endure shit. Don’t drink coffee to replace sleep.

• by dkarras on 3/17/24, 8:54 AM

  if this had a repo in github, I'd PR "SSL" to the skill tree.