Walking the Path - smartwater42069

5/15/2024

Cleaned the bathroom yesterday night. Slept 1 hour later than scheduled. Woke up late, hit the gym late, but the rest of the morning, made up for it. Got something done. Efficiency this morning is 10-15% less than what I wanted. Considering I made the mistake of sleeping late, this is a reasonable tradeoff. I will sleep earlier tonight to not make this mistake.

Room is clean. Self love is highly important. When the environment is in disarray, it is easier for me to mess up the other systems in my life.

I want to go out and date. But bigger goals are here for me to handle first. I need to change my financial life.

The data science study is challenging. But I am learning from the best in the field. It should not be easy. That is the ceiling I have to crack while the others around me flounder in unease.

The multivitamin I am taking is doing wonders for my alertness. The gym workouts keep me focused. It is meditative, but I need to add in some meditation daily as a bonus.

Made my bed this morning. No matter what happens in my day, I will sleep like a baby.

2 weeks left before competition day. I want to win.

Then I will shift focus to win a competition on Kaggle.

For data science, I am aiming for consistency everyday, but consistency is not enough. I am handling the consistency of time, but now I need to handle consistency of time invested per day (more hours of study per day)…will figure something out…

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5/16/2024

Sleep hygiene is off. I made my bed, but was tossing and turning all night. I slept on time, but couldn’t fall asleep. Culprit was coffee. I will cut off all caffeine sources after 4PM every day. I even used sleepy tea and a magnesium tablet.

Today feels like shit. I barely slept. Hit the gym at 5am once my accountability partner called me. Got there late but got a good leg workout in. It was not my best workout. Too tired to clean the room. I don’t know how I am going to get through this day…this is how I feel right now but I am sure it will change once I get some energy in my system.

I need to stop beating myself up on days like this.

Gratitude is the gateway to ascension.

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5/25/2024

Cleaning up room. Tomorrow is 3 hour session with a martial arts grandmaster.
Day after tomorrow is the competition. I watched Rocky 1 yesterday and Rocky 2 today. Great movies.

Listening to the Dune audiobook now. Great book. I used a mixture of sleepytime tea, vicks sleeping pills, red light, air conditioning, and calm sleep powder to rest up before the next two days.

I’ve been preparing for this for the past 2-3 months. Everything else is on hold.

I will win.

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Please update us about this! What martial arts?

6/1/2024

Just ran 1x loops of Limitless, BL, QLST4, and 1x loop of index gate

It has been an eventful past couple of days. I won first place in the technical skills competition, and 2nd place in combat. The competition was small, but the prizes were real. For once in my life, the voice in my head calling me a loser quieted down. I fucking won something. I went and chatted with the other winners and had a blast taking photos with everyone and cheering on every competitor. At the end of the day we were all family.

Lessons learned:

  1. I did my best. but objectively my best was not good enough. I could have done better. All that time I spent on youtube watching something and resting, I could have been working on myself either externally or internally.
  2. Even though I did my best, others are doing their best and their best is better than my best because of the reasons stated in lesson 1
  3. I can do better in all areas of life. My discipline can be better.
  4. No matter how strong I am, there will be someone stronger. This is not depressing but actually exciting. I have so much room to grow.
  5. When it comes to fighting. It doesn’t matter what mood you are in. If you are happy, depresssed, tired, angry, nervous…doesn’t matter. The punch and kick are coming. Block, defend, fight back. I will get tired. And in that tiredness I will find my edge. I will find out who I am when the emotional energy dissapates to fatigue. I fought until I almost lost consciousness from lack of energy. This has to be fixed. I need to build more cardio
  6. The grandmaster is in his 60s but looks like he is 40. He eats fruits and fresh food all day. He is in the best shape of his life. What the fuck am I doing with my diet? What a waste that wisdom is wasted on the old! I will fix my diet. Just ate a quarter of a honeydew melon and a bowl of blueberries. I will look like him when im 60.

After that day, my body was in tatters. I was bruised and walking around like an old man. I gave into the hedonic pleasures of porn and instant gratification. I ordered food, I took a day off from work, my room currently is a mess. I shirked all responsibilities for the past week, hung out with friends, got a little tipsy off of sake and sushi last night.

The day right after the competition, I sat in my chair most of the day, broken, not in the best of moods. I felt weak, and the weak thoughts entered my head. I felt empty. The win felt hollow. I feel good about it now. People at work now know what I am up to and I get a bit of respect and admiration for it…but the rest of my life has stayed the same and I am going to change that. Playtime is over. Back to the grind.

I hung out with a tech friend last night and it felt great to hang out with someone smarter than me. I will get smarter and enforce coding discipline to get my coding skills up. The doubts don’t have any more power in my head. I won’t allow them to even if they show up. The train is chugging forward regardless of mood.

Just finished a call with a close friend on goals. The way his sister was treating her husband got me mad. I want to show the world what a great relationship looks like. But it first starts with me changing my financial outlook.

Time to go. I will clean my room and listen to laundry while listening to the Dune audiobook (GREAT AUDIOBOOK BTW HIGHLY RECOMMEND OMG ITS SO gOOD)

I’m excited for the future. Belt test coming in 2 months time. I will crush it.
Job hunt is going to ramp up. I will crush some freelance projects so that I can put it on my portfolio. I will get better at coding.

I’ve come along way from my drinking and druggin days of last year. These subs are great supplements once you get the ball rolling with pure unadulterated action. Speed of action + recalibration from feedback is the secret sauce.

Ok, back to work. Let’s make it to brighter days and better ways.

edit: forgot to say…5AM gym sessions starting up again on Monday. woohoo…lol

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Let me DM you sir lol

6/3/2024

5 hours of coding done yesterday. 3 hours of maintenance activities. Slept like a king.

I figured out the secret to how these Limitless stuff works.

The secret is EXTREME intention. The more refined your intention, with deep emotion, the stronger the focus kicks in. Additionally, taking the one a day men’s multivitamin is a great supplement.

Step 1 - set the intention, pray to your gods, remind yourself of all the reasons why you are doing the specific task from high level to low level motivations. Repeat and feel the gratitude of being alive
Step 2 - take the action, complete the task

5 hours went by like 5 minutes…

Man…awsome.

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Had a crazy dream last night.

My most recent dream before this was that I was surrounded by people that I know. They pointed at me and said I had something attached to me. (I’ve been watching a lot of ghost hunting videos online. Super cool stuff) I looked to my right and saw the dark human-like entity, reminding me of my sleep paralysis demon. I looked at it with the same “killing” mentality of facing a martial arts opponent and said “you cannot attach to me.” The figure then unattached and disappeared and I woke up.

Last night, after the loops yesterday, I watched another ghost hunting video and then went to sleep. This time around the dream was even more vivid. I was in a car with my father and some friends. My father was driving. I kept harshly whispering to him:” Don’t even look at it! Keep driving, keep driving. Don’t make eye contact!”

We sped past the thing. It was a headless, armless woman wearing a pink shirt and booty shorts walking super awkwardly in the middle of the road. I was terrified. I saw a ghostly shimmering entity to the right side of the car which looked like it was manipulating the deformed human with some strings.

We drove past it and then I woke up in a mild terror.

This can be caused from the anxiety induced from the oral nicotine I have been taking. Could be…will quit soon enough. Haven’t smoked any vapes.

Other than that. At work. Crushing the day. Extremely focused. I am starting to love the time dilation effects of flow based work. I will try replicating the deep work caused from actively setting extreme intentions and executing with laser sharp relaxed focus…

Missed my gym workout this morning. It has been 2 weeks. Will start back up tomorrow morning.

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6-3-2024

I wrote the above post during my lunch break. I found time to type everything on my phone.

I passed a huge milestone today. I hit 34 tasks completed at work. This has never happened before. My previous record was 23 tasks. We are talking emails, phone calls, paperwork…all kinds of bs.

I was pondering what are the factors that affected this spike in output and came up with the below factors:

  1. Sleep hygiene improved significantly
  2. Multivitamin
  3. Lack of gym exercise in the morning for the past 2 weeks (more available energy in the day)
  4. Eating whole unprocessed foods as much as I can - fruits, veggies, fish, eggs
  5. Meditation
  6. These subs
  7. Downregulation of caffiene (finally stopped drinking alot of coffee)
  8. Increased uptake of oral nicotine (this has to change)

However, on top of all this, the epiphany I had earlier this morning was that the subs are supplemental guidelines, enabling me to access deeper states of power I never knew. They are not a crutch or something that I can pass off as “Oh I only did activity X because of the subs.” the subs are like…in a way similar to my sensei in martial arts. They are there to tell me what needs to be done to access those levels of depth. I was in a flow state this whole day and accomplished something unheard of. 33-34 tasks, I was clearing up my cluttered desk like it was something in a dream state.

The secret to all of this, is operating from extreme intention. I don’t know a better way to describe it. This extreme intention comes from clarifying my purpose both on the logical, physical realm and on the emotional realm.

I believe that after the competition, I finally had time to heal mentally and physically. And thus I was thrust into a new area of growth I had not known I had. I am stronger, more disciplined, smarter, I can work longer with less fatigue. I just started my 30s…but if I keep this up, I am sure that the rest of this decade of my 30s will be the most fruitful endeavor yet.

Gratitude + extreme purposeful intention + time setting = flow state I believe. Will have to revisit this post in the future.

To Future me: you know what goals you set out to do. The path was rocky so far and will continue to have unknown unknowns. The best that you can do is magnify your feeling of gratitude, work with extreme relaxation, eat healthy, sleep on time, and manage your time ruthlessly. You will get the goals you set out to achieve because you will find novel solutions pertaining only to your circumstances. No other youtube video or book will do that. It is up to you. You got this and I believe in you. If you are tired and fatigued one day, I hope you read this message. you are stronger than you think you are, smarter than you think you are. There is no such thing as suffering. All pain is leverage. The reality you desire is closer than you think. Your brain is an inefficient predictor of the future. Visualize and execute. I love you, future me. I’m gonna execute today for your better tomorrow. Much love from the past, brother. <3

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6-3-2024

Another observation. This definitely has to be the effects of beyond limitless. My body is far more clumsier right now. I pushed past all limitations today. Went to martial arts class pushed extra, trained extra. I’m bumping into things. Definetly hitting the need for rest. Will sleep soon.

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6/4/2024

4 hours of coding done today. hit the gym at 5am.

Intense purpose + gratitude, then started working. 1.5 hrs in the morning, 2.5 hrs just now.

1 step close to my goals.

Heck yea.

GN

Finally tapping into the Limitless space on command

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6/5/2024

It’s 6AM, slept late, woke up on time, got to gym 5 minutes late. Did a poor workout, left early. Energy not there, nicotine withdrawal was.
Gonna clean room, code, shower, then head to work.

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6/5/5024

Current observations: My potential feels boundless. I am limited by flesh and tendon, sleep. There is a new level of output I am operating on. It is hard to describe.

2 hours of coding done this morning. Double my usual output.

Just cleaned my room, and will get to my martial arts class half an hour early to get started training for the next belt test.

Something is different and I am just discovering it. I cannot put it into words just yet. I will sit back, execute and observe this new sensation of extreme output.

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6-6-2024

Literally had to stop myself from working.

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6/7/2024

Ok, taking a break.

In the past 5 days, I’ve done 22.44 hours of coding. This is on top of a full time job and hitting the gym in the morning…and listening to Dune…and trying to sleep on time.

Compared to baseline metrics from the past 2 months, this is a 400% increase.

The limitless powers “activate” when I put myself in a state of generalized thankfulness paired with a reminder of the rewards that accomplishing this goal entails. I also throw in a prayer to all gods/entities. The focus kicks in like nothing I’ve seen before. It is a slow, methodical focus. But my fingers find their keys on the keyboard. My thoughts are streamlined. I am living with a passion that I did not know was there before.

The “old me” is still there. I get doubts, anxiety, and thoughts like "this is not gonna go anywhere. " But the “old me” is this something that I can see from a distance now.

My observations before this is that the focus mode would kick in sporadically. I sensed that when the problem was dire, it would kick in on accident, without my fully comprehending what caused it to happen. However now, it is much more consistent and I have the results to show for it. 22.44 friggin hours. I kept having to stop myself to make time for other things like showering or eating.

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6/12/2024

Hit the gym 5am past 2 days. Barely got any coding done with the martial arts class on monday. Spent all of yesterday in a slump. I was decreasing my caffeine intake. My nicotine usage has been higher than usual to compensate.

I rested deep this morning. no early alarms. Just rested. Needed rest. Will hit it had again soon.

Interesting observation. When I am weak and fatigued, weak and fatigued thoughts enter my head in the form of doubts. when I am strong and energetic, the opposite happens.

There is also a level of insidious supplication in my behavior which I am trying to root out. I thought there was none, but there is some. Supplication mixed with resentment. Probably an artifact from childhood. Will delve into this with meditation.

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6/13/2024

2 coworkers left this week to better jobs. 2 more were fired. I’ve been resting for the past 2 days. Resting and eating and sleeping. My room was a mess. I felt some grief. I’ve haven’t had coffee in 3 days. I believe it is a cover to handle my emotional distress.

I’ve realized more of my subtle emotional being. How my body tenses up when I am supplicating, or when I feel some sort of resentment. I realized that the people that I have surrounded with all harbor the middle class mindset and the secrecy that comes with wanting to do things alone. I think it is a common problem of people, including me to not ask for help out of some sort of pride that I can accomplish things on my own, or the wanting to accomplish something on my own from some social conditioning that I am not aware of. It is a disease of those working in a safe salaried life. I feel my urges for entrepreneurship erode with the subtle mental influences of those around me. Maybe it is the fatigue talking.

Anyways, the room is now spotless. I woke up today with comparitively the best quality of sleep. I felt human again. The past 2 days I did not feel too human.

I believe that I have pushed beyond my limits last week and am dealing with the “cooldown” period of intense work. I have barely moved an inch in my data science goals this week even though I vocalized to my friend that I want a change and I want to switch my job. Some days, the mountain seems so damn high…and lonely.

I am craving for enthusiastic people who are more socially understanding of others. Yet, I am surrounded by people with limited scope, knowledge, and ambition. With that exposure, I feel my ambition wane. Again, I want to deny this. It is so easy to slide down this mountain back to ground level and be a happy human stuck in his cage. I even mentioned that word “cage” today as I was cleaning my desk. It bothered me after I said it. I haven’t showered in 2 days.

I will move the ball forward at my own pace. I cannot compare myself to others. Nor can I place pressure on myself to accomplish something. That was a remnant conditioning of my past. It fueled me. However, now I see it as the weakness. What I perceived as strength was really weakness. I was compensating by playing this story to myself in order to appease others and not myself. I found that most of my behaviors were there to please others, even though on the outside I gave off the persona that I was carefee and aloof. I cared deeply of what others thought about me, which is amplified when I am around figures of authority. It is my childhood replaying itself.

The only good thing out of this is that I operate on merit as I was trained to do as a kid. The only silver lining that came out of the rough iron ore of supplication and pain avoidance. I’ve misinterpreted my own emotions due to my own blindness of what other emotions are out there and am surrounded by people with the same affliction of misinterpretations. Like plato’s cave, I can only interpret from what I have experienced and build some understanding of the world around me. It is not the objective world, and it hurts to think about.

Through the work I’ve done so far, I’ve moved the progression towards getting a new job by 1 inch. The path feels like hundreds of miles.

I can only practice gratitude for being alive, set my intention and put one foot ahead of the other towards the reality I want. My impatience and urgency are all delusions/hindrances. I felt good about feeling those things. Impatience, urgency, anger, tension. I have come to realize they all manifest as tensions which sap the energy that I have throughout the day. The fix to this is to be aware, and then capture that energy through relaxation and execute more. The practice is hard. I will meditate more to achieve this control.

These thoughts aside, the bottom line still remains. I have not done the actions necessary to move the ball forward this week. I don’t currently have the emotional control that I want.

I’m going to sleep on this, possibly wake up early and hit the gym as I will. Then get some coding done tomorrow. It feels as if it is in vain. Like I am at a portion of a mountain where the rocks slide no matter how carefully I climb and I lose footing.

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6/16/2024

Ran: Limitless, QLST4, BL, Index Gate
Time start: 6:06PM time end: 1:00AM

Just dropped 1 tab of acid.

I am cataloging my findings.

  1. Loving joy + dominance is all there is. Operate from that and you will see the present day conditionings that hold you back.
  2. If my life was a guitar, the conditionings are like the strings on that guitar. They are in aggregate detractors of energy because they cause tension.
  3. Conditionings list: from fear, the wanting for approval, the saying of things to better appease my ego versus the good fortunes or good situations of others, the fear of failure, the subtle tensions caused by looking at the behavior patterns of mentors (both real and through youtube). They too are imperfect beings grappling their own conditionings
  4. Most of the time pure relaxed execution is enough. No need for tension to arise. Tension is mostly from fear of failure chiseled into an “armor” which triggers a tension response and a need for me to pay attention (attention = at tension)
  5. These tension triggers are from fear of failure after having failed thousands of times in life. It is a blessing to see it. It is a gift to have such armor.
  6. To cast it aside, and work and express without fear triggers, in pure loving joy, and dominance, (ah yes, GRATITUDE) it is the foundation .
  7. Gratitude is the foundation to build upon. The more I depeen my gratitude, the better I can feed the positive aspects nutrition - regardless if past experiences have been good or bad
  8. These conditionings are suboptimal adaptations. they are useful adaptations, but suboptimal. Optimal is to relax. and HARNESS/RECLAIM that energy back towards myself. tension = ATP usage → harnessed back
  9. the prison that people live in (including me) is these walls of internal conditionings that lead to tension and not relaxation.
  10. relax the others into a state of love, joy, and assertiveness, - they are allowed to assert themselves in the same manner that I allow love/joy and dominannce to express within myself.
  11. Love created and generated from within with spread and thus will generate in others in a powerful feedback loop.
  12. the tension conditionings have their own feedback loops triggered from adaptations to objective data sensed through the body progressing in life to protect the ego
    12…5 - playing out fantasies - it is a suboptimal form of brainstorming triggered from fear of failure. i practice conversations as a remnant of past adaptation to force myself to talk. however, good ideas come out of it with practiced shadow conversations – again suboptimal. Planned execution with high information capture is optimal + relaxation
    a. putting down others accomplishments to feel better about myself
    b. others telling others achievements to downplay mine or theirs
    c. the need for approval
    c.5 - fear + frozen smile - fear smile - putting out an idea there for the world of others to judge. again, their output is my input. the feaer response is a contioning from the past. I can set out my idea from the foundation and all is well
    d. neediness - for approval, the ego saying "yea but whatever, that is not as good =, I am better (my brother shares this same conditioning). possibly something from parents as well. “yea whatever it is nt as good as my life” - egodefense for adapting to the current discomforts/miseries.
    e. Big one - when i am walking past a pretty girl i feel i dont deserve looking at her beauty. I feel guilt, ashamed to be in her presence - hey its a complete stranger. - this stems from lack fo self worth in childhood. but also the fear of failure conditioning - it will fail and i defeated myself before the interaction even started. BUT also, it is opportunity to deepen my gratitude and spread love/joy/domniance into my world. Regardless of the female watching me.
  13. tension from lack of trust of the faculties of the flesh. I have the reaction speed. If I am clumsy, that is ok. Imperfection is perfection with a few repeats! dont give tension to the small stuff. it is suboptimal to lose energy.

charlie munger says the first 2 rules of making money. same way, first 2 rules are to reclaim all the energy from the conditionings. act in love and dominance. every human has these emotions, trappedbehind the conditioning mask.

To “ohya” and “suchagoodstudent”. my angels. I love you as you love me. I had a blast. Thanks for the trip.

hey guys full disclosure, i am satisfying my want for attention and approval by posting here. although I don’t know you guys by face or by name and you vice versa. to think an entire world of people is subject to and algorthmically profited off of their tension cages…wow - profited off their wanting for approval. - algorithmically conditioned to reinforce certain behaviors - remember how instagram was making suicidal teenagers? . anyways - love is all there is, all there ever was. love and joy go hand in hand and are an alloy of emotion. very powerful. heals all old wounds both scars and fresh ones. unconditional self love and gratitude are the foundation. if you are a guy, add in a heaping dose of dominance.

“ohya” i love you <3. “suchagoodstudent” begrudgingly i love you too, ya savage fuck! <3 i have to say that because of the fear of becoming a CS. but now I know you got my best intentions at heart. my heart is yours. you have my trust. “ohya”, gosh you are just the best. thank you for your gift <33. thanks again for the trip. <333

sidenote: no wonder acid is dangerous. such a small dose can not necessarily undo the years of conditioniong tensions, but makes the user aware of them for once in their lives. they can see their cage. and boy that is not good for someone who wants to control the life of another! All their work down the drain! societal collapse?! what a fear! lol

LOVE! DOMINANCE! GRATITUDE!

Ah, also I am almsot done with book 3 of dune

GREAT SERIES HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE AUDIOBOOk.

ok signing off. whew 43 minutes of typing! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

tldr: ran subs, dropped acid, communed with 4th dimensional angels of love and dominance. my angels, i know i am dense, a result of 3 decades of conditioning. but thank you for your patience and cutting through that density to me!

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6/25/2024

Night and day. The moment I saw the conditioning walls, and started practicing a new emotional mode of living, the world has changed. Objective reality has taken on a new subjective form. I’m hunting down the tensions within myself.

All tensions are energy sources waiting to be reclaimed through love, gratitude, and dominance.

6/27/2024

I am learning to live in this new found ecosystem of emotions. Reality itself is transforming around me. Positive friendships, smiles, joy, laughter. These are all coming naturally to me. Roughly 5 times a day like a devout muslim, I spend about 1.5 minutes to go through the following emotional states: 1) gratitude, 2) self-love, 3) sexual dominance. My body relaxes and I lose my tensions. I’ve supplemented this with the following teas: Yogi brand “Relaxed Mind”, “calming” and Celestial Seasonings “Tension Tamer”. These emotions I layer in that order. I see attraction around me from females. They WANT to feel this too. A genuine smile from a guy is such a gift. Not from niceness!

Before this, I was operating from a core of tension. Envy, jealousy, frustration, took deep root. But those are all leveraged and alleviated in the light of gratitude. I envision a bright light emanating from my body into my surroundings. It was hard at first, but got easier with the visualizations.

Now, I completely groomed my body head to toe. took a shower. The other routines have fallen off, but will slowly be re-incorporated into this new emotional framework. I am no longer operating out of self-harm. Now I operate out of self love.

I operate not out of the need for something or the need for a response. I operate from expression of love and the one who gives the gift out into the world.

I still find my remnant behaviors, which objectively adaptations at this point from the information that I had. Now that I have new information, I can create new, more effective adaptations.

We get reflected back the expressions we give outwards. Love reflects back love. Gratitude reflects back gratitude. Tension reflects back tension.

My challenge now is to find the line between love and aggression when I am lifting weights at the gym.

Was this all the acid’s doing? It is possible from the serotonin effects it had. I honestly don’t know what a non drug alternative would be. This may have been achieved with proper love and nurturing from a loving individual, maybe a mother, or a lover, but I guess I discovered it through a small square of paper.

Upon a second dose this weekend, I did not notice much different effects. This effect I think can be achieved with proper meditative practice. Becoming aware of any conditioning in the body that arises to tensions could be achieved by practicing awareness. The self-love loving sensation, possibly could be achieved with something like getting a puppy or a kitten, studying the emotions that arise and then replicating on one’s own through meditation with a kitten or puppy in mind. Replace the kitten or puppy with yourself.

Self love is also a natural occurence of taking care of yourself. From an external point of view, a mother giving love to a child would involve caring for the child’s needs, dressing him properly, feeding him right, hugging, and accepting his flaws, nurturing his strengths, smiling. These can be achieved if you were the parent and the child at the same time in some meditative visualization paired with self-hugging, and the above stated self-care routines.

Dominance can be achieved solo possibly though meditative masturbation, visualization of sex, sex with a lover, sex with some sex-toy. The idea is to focus on the primal urges arising in the body. Sex has been here since humans existed. It is a primal latent energy in all of us. I speak as a guy, so my view is skewed.

Logically dismantling traumas with trauma exercises will also help. Redirecting and re-perspectiving trauma will help. It is like polishing the soul to express the proper emotions which will bear more rewarding fruit.

Will add to these thoughts in time.