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My one goal in everything that I do this year is going to be total immersion. Total immersion is the obvious-yet-overlooked key to success and extreme productivity in life. I got the idea from language learning. In the world of language learning there are those few people who learn languages in two to six months. And you know what they apply to their lives? Total immersion.

To make it clear, total immersion is not about a balanced life. It’s not about doing a little of everything every single day. And it’s not about giving equal time to everything. Total immersion is about focusing on only one thing for an insane amount of time. It’s about letting everything else wither away in the meantime. And it’s about leading an unbalanced, yet highly passionate, and driven life.

Total immersion requires that you lose any and all sense of balance you hold dear to you. Repeat, any and all sense of balance. It means watching your social life dwindle to nothing while you focus entirely on your career. And on the contrary, it means watching your career dwindle down to nothing while you focus on your social life (a social life is necessary but it shouldn’t be all consuming, all the time).

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One of the most profound, and thought provoking things, I have ever learned [this week] came from a movie. The movie was somewhat well put together (it tended to jump all over the place and be stereotypical). But it was thought provoking, and drastically different. That movie was “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” (I have to read the book). I won’t ruin the movie for you, because if anything you will learn a lot more than I can tell you by watching it firsthand. But there are two stories (retold/revised) about rape (this is where they thought provoking part comes in) that came out of me watching it, and that must be shared with the you, the world.

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Yes, it’s true, zombies [might] exist, and so might highly advanced humanoid robots; it’s a really thought provoking thing to think about… if you think about it. See, someone once said that if people turned into zombies, or were replaced by humanoid robots, we wouldn’t be able recognize it. Why? Because they would do everything a normal person would. They would speak when spoken to, hold a proper conversation, get angry, sad, and happy when necessary and do the everyday common things like eating, sleeping, etc.

But, the difference is that they wouldn’t understand what they are doing. They would just be intelligent enough to give you the proper/desired output when you provided the proper input. They wouldn’t be able to understand why “1 + 1 = 2”, but when asked what 1 + 1 equals, they would tell you 2. When they see a red light they would stop, yellow- slow down, and green- keep on going, but they wouldn’t be able to actually know why they are doing it, they would, as said, just be giving you the proper/desired output. Continue Reading →

GOAL : 14 hours sleep per week

PROGRESS: 14.5 hours sleep this week

This week turned out to be much better than last week. Although, if you take into account the first few days in, you would have never noticed. If you saw my Twitter updates you would have noticed that I went through a rough patch where I felt like “screeching monkeys were in my head having a loudest screeching monkey contest”… basically ONE BIG HEADACHE. Due to this I overslept two of my first naps by 15 minutes adding 30 more minutes to my goal of 14 hours. My only times oversleeping. I kept going though, and life got better. Noting my earlier progress from week one, I can say I fixed most of the mistakes I had. For example:

• I no longer sleep on beds

This was weird at first, but I got used to it. Stupid mistake I made the first few times was sleeping on my arm. After waking up I always felt like blood had rushed to them. I can describe to you the fun I had in turning off alarms while feeling as if my arms were balloons, but I won’t. Continue Reading →

December was the best month I’ve had so far. I also discovered how to use fingered citron (pictured above) to make salads taste better, which was… an experience in itself.

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Earlier I listed my “top 10 fictional books” and I promised I’d post the list with my “top 10 nonfictional books”. So, here I am, keeping my promise (I’m a bit late). The books here are a mix of “face reality” , “thought provoking”, and “do better in life” books, which I’m all for.

Quick word- The fictional books were the books that opened up my eyes and let me see these nonfictional books, which are loaded with much more amazing info due to it being true. But, both lists are dire to the shaping of who I am today and I’m thankful I read them all. Without further ado, I will shut up, and just list them already:

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GOAL : 14 hours sleep per week

PROGRESS: 22.5 hours sleep this week

Yup, I slept 8.5 hours more than what I wanted. But to make myself feel better I deducted that that comes down to 3.21428571 hours of sleep per day this week. Which if you think about it is better than all but two of the schedules (Uberman, and this one, Dymaxion). I’m not going to stop aiming for that two hours though. In fact I could have made it if it wasn’t for a few mistakes…

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