Re Human — Week 20 Reflections — Day 140
We are what we repeatedly do. I’m reinventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time.
This process post is part of my Re Human project.
This whole thing is an experiment. I’ve learned a lot of things by being in an ‘experimentation mindset’.
This past week I experimented with new ways of doing things.
On Monday I woke up at 3:40am. I tried the Wake Back to Bed Method for Lucid Dreaming — staying awake for 30mins (I wrote during that time) — then going back to bed with the intention to Lucid Dream. Didn’t work but I feel it was close (remembered many of my dreams, very vividly and with long details that night).
Throughout the week I learned Drawing Theory from Udemy’s character drawing course.
On Monday I also tried a new VR-building platform I hadn’t used before, Scapic. One of the things I made was this universe in a room experience.
Throughout the week I learned from a couple of different Youtubers, their different approaches for improvising with Chord Progressions, like this one:
This week I got way more consistent at getting the Hop the World trick, and sometimes even got it with around the world and hop the world, several times without the ball falling in between! Been recording my progress for this to make a cool Instagram story.
Getting the belt for weighted pull-ups was also a great call. I feel the improvement.
Two days ago I also started trying to do human flag “push ups”. Looks super wild. I obviously don’t get many yet but surprised that I could do like one or two.
On Tuesday, we got featured on Product Hunt and got #5 product of the day!
In terms of writing, I did a “systemic creativity brainstorm” every day this week (links in each of the days).
I read The Third Door, started a couple of physical and Kindle books, listened to a couple of good podcasts, and almost done listening to I am Malala. It’s way harder for me to finish a physical/kindle book and not jump around them. Audible makes it much easier for me to finish a book before starting another one.
On Wednesday, I felt pretty great in the Intermediate Salsa class.
On Thursday, I took a Graphic Design course on Skillshare on Layout Design.
On Friday, my friend Cliff arrived to stay with me for the weekend and we had a great dinner conversation — was long so I almost didn’t go to the gym/do soccer trick juggling, but I went after, at 11pm.
On Saturday, I did all the Re Human stuff but it was also the first time I’ve played Settlers of Catan! Was really fun.
Today, I wrote this. Also every Sunday I have a lot of fun creating and sending my weekly present newsletter.
This Week’s Breakthrough Realizations
Distinguishing between value producing, non-value producing, and waste work. Any movement can fit into these buckets.
A key to productivity: workflows (different than habits). Reliable ways/systems to make things happen.
Some cool perspectives about humor as it relates to evolution:
- “Laughter is the sound of comprehension.”
- Humor is the mechanism where we sort out the grey area of what can and can’t be said.
- Humor treads at the frontier of consciousness. When a comic finds a funny joke, they are unearthing a truth that people are only kind of aware of, but the whole room grasps that everybody else is aware of the truth, and laughter ensues.
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