Excellent title and motive behind it.
So you’re writing about your experience of other people’s experiences.
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Day 125
15 Oct 2022
Subliminal Break Day
I’m considering running Beyond Limitless or Limitless Executive after this third cycle of my QE/ME custom. The idea of Beyond Limitless “maximizing” my cognitive potential seems to appeal to me now that I’ve spent so much time (close to 5 months) on Quantum Limitless, which should have expanded my potential and done some healing of my brain.
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Day 126-7
16-17 Oct 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 128
18 Oct 2022
1 loop of QL/ME Custom
Day 129-30
19-20 Oct 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 131
21 Oct 2022
1 loop of QL/ME Custom
One week more to the end of my third cycle of my QL/ME custom…
It’s been hell of a week with a bout of hay fever, lowering my productivity to a significant degree.
My main obsession now is with reading Worlds and Minds. It’s become an obsession as I keep on finding new, interesting profiles to add.
There’s a quote from Charlie Munger that is sinking deep into me and making clearer the purpose of what I am doing.
“I am a biography nut myself, and I think when you’re trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personal ties of the people who developed them. I think that you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend. That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better in life and work better in education. It’s way better than just giving the basic concepts.”
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Day 132-133
22-23 Oct 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 134
24 Oct 2022
One loop of Experimental LBFH
Day 135
25 Oct 2022
1 loop of QL/ME Custom
After 5 months into my treatment, I have decided that I will go for a one month subliminal washout after the end of my third cycle of my QL/ME custom, which is on the 28th of October. I will resume the running of subliminals towards the same goal in December.
While on the search for more biographies and interview transcripts, I came across an interview with this chap called David Senra.
David Senra apparently is a biography addict and has read through 100s of biographies of different people from various backgrounds, living and dead. It’s impressive by any standard, and I’d want to be able to do the same, even if that’s the only thing I have to do for the rest of my life.
Anyway, here are some snippets from the interview with David Senra.
When you think about what a biography is, you’re getting to know somebody and they become mentors in a historical context. This is why Charlie Munger has such great advice and why he’s read hundreds of biographies. He’s like, “I make friends with the eminent dead, because if you learn the ideas they have and the personality behind that idea, it’s actually going to stick.” As opposed to just a list of, “Hey, here’s 10 good business ideas.” But if you actually understand why they did it the way they did, why did they think about that? Why were they obsessed like that? Why did they want to avoid other things?
I have a series of heroes, and almost all the heroes have come through the podcast in the research I’ve done. Usually they’re heroes in what they did, they got to the top of their profession. They had a lot of good ideas. They’re very admirable. They’re wicked smart. They don’t give up. They have extremely high pain tolerance, but they’re all imperfect human beings. And that is kind of the cautionary tale, the overall theme of Founders, where I get a lot of feedback too, I’m glad you’re not idolizing these people. They’re people, everybody’s an imperfect human being, so I’ll take bits and pieces from people.
The reason I’m so obsessed with just studying people that got to the top of their profession is because one third of your life is going to be spent working. Half of your conscious life, half of the time you’re not asleep, is going to be spent working. For a certain personality type, to not Excel at that, not to be really good at that means that life is not going to be an enjoyable experience for me. If I had to guess, which comes up a lot, I think there’s some kind of deep rooted fight against a sense of inferiority that is underneath it.
So to answer your question, there’s a quote I have on my phone. I’ve had this quote since 2017. I’m not a fan of moderation. I’m attracted to extremes. What do you want your life experience to be? Do you want to be exceptional? Do you want to push the boundaries of your capabilities? Do you want to walk around in a fog butting up against your potential but never actually realizing it? Then knock yourself out. Be moderate. I’m not interested in that. So I can’t do the podcast less than I do. All I can do is say, “Hey, this thing, this obsession of mine, will overtake my life because I’ve seen enough stories where it can ruin my life.” So I have boundaries. I have a balance every day. The only thing I figured out is because I’m an obsessive person. Obviously, you are. A ton of people that are listening to this as well. So what I realized is like, okay, instead of working like ton of hours, five days a week, I’ll just spread everything out and have a balance, seven days a week.
The kindest thing anybody’s ever done for me happened a few decades before I was born. My grandfather on my dad’s side was living in Cuba. He was just 38 years old. He had a wife and a newborn baby when the Cuban Revolution happened and Castro took power. He didn’t understand the language, had no money and no education, and yet took the gigantic risk … and the complete correct choice at that time in his life … to flee Cuba to go to America, to give his family a better chance and a better opportunity. That one decision changed the entire trajectory of my life.
None of my interests that I happen to be naturally born into, the passions that chose me, that I did not choose, would make a lick of difference if I grew up in Castro’s Cuba as opposed to America. As somebody that studies dead people for a living, it really resonates how our decisions not only affect our loved ones now and our family now and our friends now, but they reverberate through the generations. If you think about it not in the context of what’s going to happen in your life this year or next year, but how the decisions you’re making will affect people that aren’t even born yet, you’ll make your decisions differently.
Day 136-138
26-28 Oct 2022
1 loop of Experimental LBFH every day
The third cycle of my QL/ME custom has finally ended, but I topped of the last 3 days of the this cycle with 1 loop of the new LBFH subliminal.
I don’t know why but for the past few days, I’ve had become very very depressed and feeling low in energy, even as I kept running the experimental LBFH once every day for three days.
There is a feeling of hopelessness and despair in me - perhaps mid-life crisis is hitting me hard while I am strongly aware that my learning disability is still there no matter how much of QL I run.
However, I came across somebody with my disability who had written something that I resonated with.
Personally tend to take in a lot of information, think globally and have the ability to make lots of connections. The phrase jack of all trades and master of none comes to mind. People with the disability that I have tend to be able to follow your line of thought, however, a neurotypical person tends think in a more structured way and as such they tend to get lost. This can cause allot of frustration for both parties. I prefer to think of the bigger picture and tend not to know what to focus on.
At the very least, I would say that over the past few months of running QL, I seem to have improvements in my ability “take in a lot of information, think globally” as well as ability to “make lots of connections”.
And yes, I’m becoming more and more of a big picture person, even though I believe that due to the nature of my work, in certain bodies of knowledge available on the Internet, no one in this planet has researched the hell out of subject more than me.
I’m taking a break from subliminals for at least three weeks before I start listening to subliminals again. I may run QL ST1 again, perhaps in a custom this time.
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Hello, shoutout to you for sticking for so long with this sub. I’ve read half of this thread and so far, so great. Though, I have one question, did you do one cycle for each stage of QL or more? Thanks in advance!
I did two cycles of QLST1 ZP and then three cycles of my QLST1/ME custom subliminal.
Day 139-141
29-31 Oct 2022
Subliminal Washout
Excerpt from a biography of an extremely impressive woman, Helen Keller. This woman succeeded in living her life as fully as she could despite her disabilities.
Her life has been a series of attempts to do whatever other people do, and to do it as well. Her success has been complete, for in trying to be like other people she has come most fully to be herself. Her unwillingness to be beaten has developed her courage. Where another can go, she can go. Her respect for physical bravery is like Stevenson’s–the boy’s contempt for the fellow who cries, with a touch of young bravado in it. She takes tramps in the woods, plunging through the underbrush, where she is scratched and bruised; yet you could not get her to admit that she is hurt, and you certainly could not persuade her to stay at home next time.
So when people try experiments with her, she displays sportsmanlike determination to win in any test, however unreasonable, that one may wish to put her to.
If she does not know the answer to a question, she guesses with mischievous assurance. Ask her the colour of your coat (no blind person can tell colour), she will feel it and say “black.” If it happens to be blue, and you tell her so triumphantly, she is likely to answer, “Thank you. I am glad you know. Why did you ask me?”
Her whimsical and adventuresome spirit puts her so much on her mettle that she makes rather a poor subject for the psychological experimenter. Moreover, Miss Sullivan does not see why Miss Keller should be subjected to the investigation of the scientist, and has not herself made many experiments. When a psychologist asked her if Miss Keller spelled on her fingers in her sleep, Miss Sullivan replied that she did not think it worth while to sit up and watch, such matters were of so little consequence.
Miss Keller likes to be part of the company. If any one whom she is touching laughs at a joke, she laughs, too, just as if she had heard it. If others are aglow with music, a responding glow, caught sympathetically, shines in her face. Indeed, she feels the movements of Miss Sullivan so minutely that she responds to her moods, and so she seems to know what is going on, even though the conversation has not been spelled to her for some time. In the same way her response to music is in part sympathetic, although she enjoys it for its own sake.
Music probably can mean little to her but beat and pulsation. She cannot sing and she cannot play the piano, although, as some early experiments show, she could learn mechanically to beat out a tune on the keys. Her enjoyment of music, however, is very genuine, for she has a tactile recognition of sound when the waves of air beat against her. Part of her experience of the rhythm of music comes, no doubt, from the vibration of solid objects which she is touching: the floor, or, what is more evident, the case of the piano, on which her hand rests. But she seems to feel the pulsation of the air itself. When the organ was played for her in St. Bartholomew’s 16, the whole building shook with the great pedal notes, but that does not altogether account for what she felt and enjoyed. The vibration of the air as the organ notes swelled made her sway in answer. Sometimes she puts her hand on a singer’s throat to feel the muscular thrill and contraction, and from this she gets genuine pleasure. No one knows, however, just what her sensations are. It is amusing to read in one of the magazines of 1895 that Miss Keller “has a just and intelligent appreciation of different composers, from having literally felt their music, Schumann being her favourite.” If she knows the difference between Schumann and Beethoven, it is because she has read it, and if she has read it, she remembers it and can tell any one who asks her.
Miss Keller’s effort to reach out and meet other people on their own intellectual ground has kept her informed of daily affairs. When her education became more systematic and she was busy with books, it would have been very easy for Miss Sullivan to let her draw into herself, if she had been so inclinded. But every one who has met her has given his best ideas to her and she has taken them. If, in the course of a conversation, the friend next to her has ceased for some moments to spell into her hand, the question comes inevitably, “What are you talking about?” Thus she picks up the fragments of the daily intercourse of normal people, so that her detailed information is singularly full and accurate. She is a good talker on the little occasional affairs of life.
Day 140-142
30 Oct 2022 - 2 Nov 2022
1 loop of LBFH Experimental
Some short ramblings about time and space here. It seems that my biggest frustrations are the inability to overcome the time-space constraints.
Achievement of my Goals = f(time, space, personal ability) where by
Time = f(Time-limited Opportunities)
Space = f(Immediate Living Environment, Social Structure)
Personal Ability = f(Action)
If that is the case, I also need to work more on the T and S.
Day 143-144
3 Nov 2022 - 4 Nov 2022
Subliminal Washout
Had decided to give LBFH a try again on 2 Nov 2022. I still felt very depressed after running LBFH for one whole day.
Interestingly, I had gone out to organize a gathering but almost no one turned up except for one person. I decided to just have some drinks with that person and we talked for over three hours over a wide range of topics. It was interesting we realized we both had a lot in common to talk about from industry-related topics to very mundance stuff to pure gossip about public figures. I had never spent so much time talking to someone I had barely known for a long time.
Check out lovebrain for maximising cognitive potential. I don’t know what learning neurodivergence you have.
Day 145-150
5 Nov 2022 - 10 Nov 2022
Subliminal Washout
Day 151
11 Nov 2022
3 minutes of Emperor Black and 7 minutes of QLST2 ZP
I have decided to continue on my Quantum Limitless journey. I will be running QLST2 ZP for 2 cycles…hopefully I can get to QLST3 by January next year.
Found this interesting.
Even more so
Day 152
12 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day.
Not sure if it’s due to EB or QLST2 ZP, or because I was down with a big cold, but I had a very good sleep in a long time, going to bed at 11pm and waking up at 7.25am.
Strangely, I had one of those dreams about seeing myself with missing teeth, but this time I could also feel my jaw tightening in my dream. In a way, while the dream was definitely not lucid, I could “sense” that I was dreaming a lot.
I am also reminded that I should write a little bit about the dream I had in the previous night, where I was supposed to be going on a business trip but couldn’t find the details of a flight at the airport flight information display. However, I ended up being “kidnapped” to another location where I was tortured, but did one of those “revisions” where I made affirmations that rolled me back to an earlier point in time before the event happened.
All the events that I have written in my dream about seem have been dreamt about previously.
Day 153
13 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
I’ve had some idea that I should spend time working on producing a factbook for my industry that could possibly sell well. It won’t be a new product, since there have been earlier versions - I have made improvements and enhancememnts each round - but this time round, I want to make the information I provide as comprehensive as possible.
I want this to be something that I will be proud of for the rest of my life.
Day 154
14 Nov 2022
7 minutes of Emperor Black and 3 minutes of QLST2 ZP
I will continue experimenting until I find my sweet spot.
Day 155-156
15-16 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 157
17 Nov 2022
1 full loop of Emperor Black and 1 full loop of QL ST2 ZP
Day 158
18 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day.
Have become busier and more focused on what I want to achieve. Sleep has also been improving a lot - I haven’t had those sleepless nights for a week or so.
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Day 159
19 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day.
Day 160
20 Nov 2022
3 min of Emperor Black and 3 min of QL ST2 ZP before sleep
One thing I noticed about my dreams in the past two nights was that I had dreamt about interacting with famous people. They aren’t celebrities but world leaders. I was recommended a book which does not exist in real life by one of them, while another world leader in a separate dream had his flight delayed and I helped him with some errands.
Now, I wonder whether all the input from the biographies is slowly seeping into my subconscious.
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Day 161-162
21 - 22 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 163
23 Nov 2022
15 minutes of QLST2 ZP
Decided to drop Emperor Black for the time-being and focus on QLST2 ZP.
Day 164
24 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Been dreaming a lot about books, emails and text.
I’ve also have had strong visualizations about the type of work I should be focusing on.
On another note, my first cycle of QLST2 ZP should be ending in about a week’s time and I will continue with another cycle of this subliminal.
Finally, I’ve also gotten hold of Robert Greene’s Laws of Human Nature. Some of the content in this book looks interesting…and familiar.
- The Law of Self-sabotage
- Law: Our attitude determines much of what happens in our life.
- Example: Anton Chekhov — a Russian playwright and short-story writer — had a tough childhood but in spite of that was able to change his life by changing his view of the world from negative to positive.
- Advice: Change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
- The Law of Gender Rigidity
- Law: All of us have masculine and feminine qualities. But in the need to present a consistent identity in society, we tend to repress these qualities, overidentifying with the masculine or feminine role expected of us. Thereby we lose valuable dimensions to our character.
- Example: Caterina Sforza became an Italian noblewoman and Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola. Such titles were unusual for women in her time. In the author’s opinion her masculine qualities helped her to achieve this.
- Advice: You must become aware of these lost masculine or feminine traits and slowly reconnect to them, unleashing creative powers in the process.
- The Law of Repression
- Law: People are rarely who they seem to be. Lurking beneath their polite, affable exterior is inevitably a dark, shadow side consisting of the insecurities and the aggressive, selfish impulses they repress and carefully conceal from public view.
- Example: Richard Nixon — the 37th president of the United States — always had a positive image in the public. Everything changed after the Watergate scandal which revealed his hidden personality.
- Advice: Be aware of your own dark side. Control and channel the creative energies that lurk in your unconscious. By integrating the dark side into your personality, you will be a more complete human and will radiate an authenticity that will draw people to you.
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Day 165
25 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 166
26 Nov 2022
1 loop of QLST2 ZP
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Day 167-169
27 - 29 Nov 2022
Subliminal Break Day
Day 170
30 Nov 2022
1 loop of QLST2 ZP
Is my fervent pursuit of knowledge and truth driven by unpleasant experiences that I faced on insufficient knowledge of an issue (a.k.a ignorance) in my past? Now, I very much think so. On the other hand, I am diving deep into research on certain topics also because this knowledge will save me.
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