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I just did something extremely painful yet exhilarating
I've watched over 100 hours of Jordan Peterson on YouTube. He's always fascinated me. He's also helped me. Anyway, I've been meaning to do the Self authoring program by Jordan Peterson for 2 years now. I finally did one part of the 4-step program. The Present Authoring - Faults exercise. Man was it long and arduous. But so absolutely worth it. In the spirit of learning in public, I've shared a screenshot of all my faults that I consolidated. And also the ones that I think are high priority. I'll be working on them. The program's already helped me to structure my thoughts and consolidate what I'd do differently. It took me a total of 5 hours of focused work. Cumulative 7 hours.
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Oh I've never heard of this program, but I just had a great time looking into it, so thanks for that... This really reminds me of the book "Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change" by Timothy Wilson about what he calls the story-editing approach. This seems to have a similar core! I feel like I've been babying myself (XD) without much of a plan, so I might give this a try as well!
I'm obsessed with the style
Yes, I'm alive, moving on: The script, the visuals and overall the vibe of this video is literally amazing. To broaden my skillset and have more than just short animations on my channel, I'd love to start filming myself as well. And to keep things as straight forward as possible, the video I just found will be the style guide. (Straightforward because I've noticed my 4 step process is: 1. Notice I'm overcomplicating things 2. Making a commitment to stop overcomplicating things 3. Overcomplicating things anyways 4. Repeat) I need to study now, but I'll write a list of things this video does right (according to me), later
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If you've been thinking of joining the Synthesizer Mastermind Call...
Just do it! I was only able to attend for the last ten minutes today but in that time alone I heard some really interesting things. I hesitated before because I was a little anxious about enabling the camera and/or unmuting myself, but that's normal I guess. At least the first time I decided to stay a bit in the background, that could be an option for people to get comfortable (especially if you're younger). Next time I'll join the conversation for real and I hope that anybody who has been thinking of joining is there next time! Thanks again for doing this, fellow synthesizers :D
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New comment May '22
Maybe being a creator is about falling and then sorta... Falling again
(also: I refuse to have a consistent voice on here. You're just going to have to deal with whatever writing style I'm with at the moment until I slowly find my own... Someday maybe) What am I doing? Good question. No idea. Or rather: I have no time to think about what I'm doing because I'm constantly putting out fires in my life. Not nice. Although to be honest, not too bad either. The alternative is worse. Because the alternative is spending time I could be making stuff on 𝙥𝞘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 to make stuff instead. Not nice either. So here is my newest semie-impulsive plan to get it together: Just make stuff. Every day. I̶f̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶.̶ Inspired by this video by a funky dude who makes really great stuff on TikTok and apparently on YouTube as well. Maybe I should start today. (Maybe you should too)
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New comment May '22
Don't go to College (Read these books instead)
Why do we go to college? Is college there to • teach you how to think? • farm minor league athletes? • promote scientific research? One of the (many) problems of American universities is that they try to do all these things and much more. (while sinking our youth into a lifetime of debt) I went to a classic American liberal arts college. The goal of a liberal arts education is to "build students into freethinkers, open communicators, knowledgeable citizens, and respectable individuals." - Lyon College If you went to college too, is this the outcome you got? From first-hand experience, most of my classmates were more interested in partying than becoming "knowledgeable citizens" or "respectable individuals." Actually, they used the word "degenerate" (the opposite of a respectable individual) as a term of endearment like bro or buddy. (I wrote a blog about this here) Listen, college was fun, and I'm thankful for the experience. And in many ways, it's better than sitting at home, especially for networking. But if the goal of college is to teach you to be a reasonable, knowledgeable thinker, there are better (and extremely cheaper options). One of those options is the Great Mental Model series from Farnam Street. Filling your brain with useful mental models across diverse disciplines is like loading your toolbox up with a range of tools. You can't be sure when you will need them, but it doesn't hurt to have them. “Developing the habit of mastering the multiple models which underlie reality is the best thing you can do.” — Charlie Munger Lastly, I am not totally against university. Like Sam Ovens has said, if you have no idea what you want to do it's probably better than sitting at home, and if I hadn't gone to college, I couldn't have gotten a Fulbright scholarship to live in Germany. But the main point is: University is not a magic pill; Stop waiting for someone or some institution to save you.
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0 likes • Apr '22
Interesting take. This makes me want to research the american school system. I've often heard people criticise/doubt college in the US, I don't think I've ever heard of that here in Germany (sure, no majority goes to university, but it isn't as criticised on that level). What's the difference? The problem? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this
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Amelie Schmid
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Hey! I'm Ame: Both Logical & creative. I'm an artist, writer and aspiring neuroscientist looking to start out on the internet.

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