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Thoughts on ... Guts, and Perseverance
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Akin to the pirates’ philosophy in One Piece, Guts doesn’t set out to be anyone’s hero. He’s had a rough life and he lives for his own convictions, and yet somehow, people are drawn to him. Guts, regardless of what happens to him, keeps pushing forward. He had reason to give up numerous times each arc, but he never does. Instead, he uses his conviction and personal principles — initially a revenge quest but transforming into a means to restore his beloved — to propel himself through the story, and it’s beautiful to read.”
Like One Piece, Berserk isn't romantic. They aren't specifically anyone's hero. They have a rough life. But they keeps on pushing.
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Guts is a mentally broken character affected by the isolation and loneliness that he has both been cursed with and brought on himself. Despite this, he always finds a way to keep on going throughout the manga.
Guts is broken and lonely. Despite this, he finds a way to keep going.
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You’re going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ll overcome this. You’ll walk again… soon.”
Berserk is about perseverance and healing.
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People bring the small flames of their wishes together… since they don’t want to extinguish the small flame… they’ll bring that small flame to a bigger fire. A big flame named Griffith. But you know… I didn’t bring a flame with me. I think I just stopped by to warm myself by the bonfire.”
Guys doesn't want to put his dreams and hopes into someone else's. He wants to carve out a path for himself.
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In terms of the design he looks very similar to Mordred from Arthurian legend with his distinctive black armour, though this is just speculation on my part and Miura seems to maintain he wanted a distinctive medival swordsman with no clear influence in most of his interviews.
Guts is influenced by Mordred from the Arthurian legend?
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At first I envisioned Guts as a hero who can get angry. Like Max in Mad Max or Kenshiro in Fist of the North Star. I focused on how to make him angry, how to make him get revenge, and how to effectively display his appearance and gimmicks, and what resulted after that struggle was the original Black Swordsman.”
At first, Miura imagined Guts to be angry.
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Guts and Berserk — A character study on human will and perseverance
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Ik maak gebruik van Moneybird, dat is niet de goedkoopste, maar wel fijn! Wellicht is het handig om iets meer context te hebben, ben je bijvoorbeeld ZZP-er of een andere constructie? En in welke branch?
Joost Plattel en vele anderen op de Digitale Fitheid community gebruiken Moneybird als hun boekhoudpakket.
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16.15 Heroism isn't easy. It is often denied by people (reversal of boon)
"they come out of the forest with gold and it turns to ashes"
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11:11 Heroes sacrifice themselves for something/someone
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08.49 Campbell referring to Otto Ranke — transformation at birth (everyone is a hero)
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06.05 "Why do heroes emerge so many times?" Campbell answers "that is worth writing about"
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Interview of Joseph Campbell at Skywalker Ranch of George Lucas
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31:40 True love is turning away from one's one sorrow and being happy for another's joy (Theoden and Eowyn)
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05.42 When all is dark, all seems dark. Giving up hope, into despair — this is the circumstance Theoden found himself in.y
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04:00 Gandalf and Theoden scene — "Not all is dark" "A ray of light shine through" (see quote from book)
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Written in December 1829
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and now that such diminution has become sensible, and that these diseases seem at last to be on the decline, will your Society proceed to give them new life and vigour by encouraging (19) the use of those very substances from which more than from any other single cause these diseases spring ? Your Society will not do so ; but will rather hasten to correct its error, to abjure the narrow policy which would substitute one evil for another, and to establish itself on the firm basis of the physiological principle that substances which exercise so powerful an influence on the nervous system as to produce intoxication, whether it be the intoxication of spirituous liquors, or of tea and coffee, or of opium, or of tobacco, cannot be used habitually without injuring the health of the body and impairing the faculties of the mind.
Society causing rise of nervous illness? (promoting tea/coffee)
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If the influence of tea on the human health be such as I have described, we should expect to find that there had occurred during the above-mentioned period of one hundred years an increase of nervous diseases bearing some proportion to the increased use of tea.
Increase import if tea as more nervous disease.
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This is the case with tea and coffee as it is with wine and spirits. Both belong to that class of substances which produce nervous excitement of mind and body
"Nervous excitement of mind and body" both tea/coffee/alcohol
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The peculiar state of mind and body which tea and coffee produce, and which I have called intoxication, follows the use of those substances as regularly as vinous intoxication follows the use of spirituous liquors. Like vinous intoxication it is modified by the habits, circumstances, and peculiar constitutions of individuals, some persons requiring a larger, some a smaller dose to produce a given effect
Intoxication of tea and coffee differs person to person
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The use of tea and coffee produces in all persons effects similar in kind to those detailed in the above related cases, but differing in degree according to the constitution of the individual, the quantity of active exercise which he uses, the intensity with which his mind is employed, the quantity of spirituous liquor which he drinks, and above all, according to the strength, the quantity, and the kind of the tea or coffee taken. All these circumstances vary so much in different individuals, and even in the same individual at different periods of his life, that the effects of tea and coffee on the health are subjected to an almost infinite variety of modifications, and cannot be traced to their true causes without great difficult
Tea and coffee as diff effects for each person (see following for description of types of people)
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the substitutes will be thrown aside, and the use of spirituous liquors established on a firmer foundation than ever. Thus shall a deep wound have been inflicted upon the cause of sobriety, by the very persons who were most anxious to to defend it, and with the very instrument which they used in its defence
Reuse of alcohol (spirituous liquors) bec of tea/coffee bad — advice of society backfires.
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A. B., a gentleman, who like the subject of the foregoing narrative had always abstained from spirituous liquors, and who had like him indulged in the use of tea and coffee, although by no means to the same excess, gradually lost his rest at night ; lying awake for several hours after he went to bed, and seldom falling asleep until two o’clock in the morning. At the same time his appetite became bad, his spirits extremely low, he had a fixed pain in the region of the heart accompanied with palpitations, and his life seemed to be in danger. By an accident he took neither tea nor coffee on one evening, and that night he fell asleep immediately on going to bed, and slept soundly all night ; he abstained the next night, and that night also slept. He then renounced tea and coffee altogether ; his distressing symptoms disappeared, and he has ever since enjoyed sound sleep at night, and his health has been perfectly good. On one or two occasions having for the sake of experiment returned for a single evening to the use of these substances, he has on those occasions had a return of the sleeplessness and of his other nervous symptoms
Tea in evening as disturbing sleep (see p18 and 19 personal story)
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18-19 Personal story of author with tea
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that all living bodies or parts of living bodies soon become insensible to stimuli to which they are accustomed. Hence the demand for a stronger stimulus to produce the required excitement. It is in this way that the habit of intemperate drinking is most commonly formed; the stomach demanding a larger and larger quantity, or as it is called, allowance of drink, until the temperate man becomes a drunkard almost without knowing it
Alcohol tolerance leads to drunkenness
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Of the intoxicating substances which I have mentioned, tea and coffee are those to which the inhabitants of this country are most likely to have recourse as a substitute for strong drink, both because the taste for them is already formed, and because their use is approved of and recommended (3) in a pamphlet lately published by your Society, and attributed to a gentleman of the highest eminence in the medical profession.
Coffee and tea as alternative bec of taste and pamphlet by society
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where the prohibition of wine has been followed by such enormous excesses in opium, coffee, and tobacco, and is in accordance with the known passion of man for that high state of excitement, which for want of a better name I have called intoxication, a term commonly applied to that particular species of excitement only, which is produced by spirituous drink.
New substances (including coffee) for higher states of consciousness/excitement — "intoxicating substances"
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Your Society is threatened by two manifest dangers arising from this diversity of opinion and practice. The first and lesser danger is that it will on this account make less progress in the opinion of the public, and will be the more likely to have its numbers thinned by defection ; its members adopting first one plan, then another, and then a third, and at last perhaps, dissatisfied with all, returning to their original habits.
(danger 1) Too many replacements for alcohol — regress back to "old habits" (consuming alcohol)
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The other danger to which your Society is exposed is still greater ; it is the danger that habits injurious to your own health and prejudicial to the interests of the community will take the place of the habits which you have laid aside ; that the use of one stimulus will be exchanged for that of another, and that some other intoxicating substance as opium, or tobacco, or tea or coffe
(danger 2) Replacing one bad substance with other
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abandoned their former habits, but they are altogether at a loss to determine what new habits to establish in the place of those which they have abandoned
Replacing alcohol with other substances (see page)
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But although abstinence from strong liquors has been at all times recommended by the few, and although it has been proved to be practicable by the experience of nations, yet has it happened that in this country, down to the present moment, no effective or even vigorous effort has been made to banish these destructive liquors
England in a drunken state (no efforts made to reduce intake)
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Your Society, formed with a view to the adoption of such measures, carries with it the good wishes of all men, and already deserves the double praise of having discovered where the root of the evil lay, and of having used a powerful and well-directed effort to eradicate it.
Drunkenness seen as evil
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20.00 What if isn't procrastination at all, but rather a signal you should pay close attention to?
See Musashi on how we can work with anxiety — letting it whisper in your ear, a signal.
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How to beat procrastination?
07.00 Clear goals — goals that focus on the action, not the outcome. (Very specific)
See GTD on next-actions that make a distinction between outcomes (projects) and clear goals (Next-Actions)
"This keeps your brain from wondering, what is the first step?"
10.00 Challenge-skill balance. Find sweet spot where challenge is slightly more than your skill level. Too much challenge is anxiety, too little is boredom. How to tune it? (1) Lower the hurdle. (2) Compress time for a given task. (3) Define scope (What needs to be done? Why? How long?)
14.00 Bypassing/response inhibition. Engaging in a task as soon as you are committed. Don't waver. Sleep to flow is an example.
17.30 Flow payoff — have long blocks of focus, where the struggle to get into flow is actually worth it.
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A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable. Dependent variables are studied under the supposition or demand that they depend, by some law or rule (e.g., by a mathematical function), on the values of other variables. Independent variables, in turn, are not seen as depending on any other variable in the scope of the experiment in question.[a]
Dependent variables depend upon independent variables (whereas independent variables are independent).
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Shanks saves Luffy from a sea beast. He shows complete mastery over his mind. First, he saves Luffy without any regard to his arm that is bitten off. Second, he directs and focuses his attention and anger at the sea beast. His anger is focused and redirected.
"It's only an arm. It's no big deal" says Shanks
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Furthermore, Shanks thinks of Luffy in a dire situation, rather than anguish at his arm that is bitten off. Shanks truly loves Luffy — love that is shown when we are ourselves suffer deeply
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Promoting coffee as an alternative to alcohol was a tactic of the temperance movement that had begun to take hold here in the early 1800s, and by the end of the century it looked as if it might actually be working. Certainly, it was more subtle than some attempts to curb drunkenness – in Islandmagee, for example, local landowner Lord Dungannon had dealt with “the appalling number of sudden, violent and premature deaths, solely from the effects of intemperance” by the simple act of smashing up all 14 pubs on the peninsula
Replacing coffee with alcohol was a way to combat intemperance (Temperance movement)
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Coffee shops are the new pubs, a friend once remarked. And he may well be right. As traditional bars struggle, coffee outlets are popping up on every street corner. Many pub landlords, especially in country areas, are only keeping their doors open in anticipation of the day someone will make an offer for their licence. Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs in horseboxes can hardly turn out the mochaccinos fast enough. Somehow, we’ve gone from ‘fancy a pint?’ to ‘see you for a coffee’.
Pubs making way for coffee shops
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08:00 Ryan Holiday built in a bunch of structure — as he progressed more in his career, he transitioned to flexibility.
- See ZK on balancing Confucius and Lao Tzu
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13:00 EQ as instrument of personal development — changing and understanding self.
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31:00 Technological advancement makes flow more important than ever. We need flow to solve complex problems. However, flow is harder to attain with tech advancing — more distractions, less focus, more information.
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04:18 All flow triggers are either (a) reducing cognitive load, or (b) increasing dopamine or norepinephrine, that drive focus.
Rian Doris people to first start reducing cognitive load. People are overwhelmed and feel like they can't take on new habits and tactics. He recommends to remove clutter from one's life. The more clutter we remove, the more time is left for flow.
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The mind is an information processing and pattern recognition machine that we have a certain amount of control over based on our level of consciousness. The mind is a system – containing a complex set of systems – that accepts, rejects, and uses information to aid in the goals you feed it.
The mind holds a set of goals. It either discards or integrates incoming information based on these goals.
- see ZK on goals and projects as information filters
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A routine is a set of practical goals that order the mind. A writer who moves to a new location or travels for an extended period of time will have a stressful acclimation period until their mind runs on new systems. If they can’t write well in their normal routine, they feel threatened, because “who they are” may die.
Routines order the mind
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Your bad habits don’t seem worth quitting because you don’t have responsibilities (or prioritize those responsibilities) that deserve you at 100% capacity.
Goals and projects require sacrifices. Bad habits are/need to go.
I am currently experiencing this. I want to do a lot of fun and important stuff. Because I have clarity on these goals right now, my bad habits — gaming mindlessly, going on news rabbit holes — "have to go".
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1:04:00 Build information capital and social capital
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59:00 Purpose and belonging as drivers for happiness. Try to balance both. Purpose can easily cannibalise belonging.
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55:00 Being dispersed over many projects makes attention random and disultory. Whereas, when you have one big focus, attention is focused. Your default mode network productivity skyrockets.
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43:00 Feeling that something is off/uneasy/anxiety is intuition and not listening to it is detrimental
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29:00 We structure our consciousness around goals; else we fall into entropy (Rian Doris)
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20:46 Flow brings you closer to the moment; to the essence of who you are; aligning with certain activities that "fit" with your being
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20:00 Flow makes life meaningful
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08:30 High action sports like F1 have a higher innate rate of pregression due to their being flow, naturally, in these sports
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15:00 The ring is pure evil. It takes away choice and freedom — the thing that one needs to have a moral victory.
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11:00 Moral above physical victories
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01:42 journey beyond our own world holds a deeper meaning that we can glimpse
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Not a mindless army of individuals but a team and crew of spirited and individuals led people leads to great heights. Luffy and Shanks his crew are all well rounded individuals whereas Gecko Moria wanted to build an army of mindless people.
One Piece is about friendship.
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10:45 Zoro is obsessive/wants control; strength gives control
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07:00 Zoro has fears of not being strong enough
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People accused [coffee] of wasting their time, when they should have been working. People also accused it of being an exotic luxury, wasting the nation's hard currency for product which has no nutritional value. This sort of connection between physiological fear of the effects that coffee was having on British masculinity [became] a vector for hostility to coffeehouses,” said Markman Ellis, a professor of 18th Century studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Coffee as wasting time versus saving time; people should be working
See other account that mentions that coffee saves time. Theme of time seems to be present with coffee.
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of energy I mean we all want to have more energy and focus and normally we hear about the concept of energy in the context of caloric energy like what should we eat and when and how much and we need to get sleep but what you're really referring to is neural energy like the engagement of ourselves that's you know uh sitting there ready to be
28:00 Neural energy
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21:40 You feel purpose in your body; it is emotional, it is visceral
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20:50 Huberman his spring of life is flora and fauna memory —something that energises him
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17:30 dig deep into your history like an archaeologist to find what moved you
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dat je wel erg naïef moet zijn Wil je geloven in de milde Wilders Ja natuurlijk is hij nu door de omstandigheden want ja hij ruikt de macht Hij dacht van Pol verri Dit wordt een hele andere vertoning dus ineens die 00:02:47 verschrikkelijke Islam die die ongelofelijke dreiging van de westerse cultuur de Arabië dat is ineens weggewaaid dan komen we Ens aan een ander interessant punt natuurlijk dat 00:03:00 als die als die gaat regeren daar moeten we het zo nog even uitgebreid over hebben als die gaat regeren dan zal dat alleen mogelijk zijn wanneer hij het overgrote deel van zijn politieke agenda door de wc trekt daarvan moeten toch
Wilders ruikt de macht en stapt daarom over zijn schaduw heen.
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57:00 transition from drunken nation to caffeinated nation supercharging productivity
- see zk on Protestant work ethic and coffee
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55:00 coffee was linked to politics early days (bans)
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08:35 underneath manga and anime are the author his thoughts and beliefs
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Being yourself and not holding up this social persona
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05:00 Onizuka is an attainable hero model (that speaks more to people)
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11:00 tap into intuition to find your bliss: not something you have to chase, just listen, look out for clues
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36:00 caffeine is an adenosine antagonist which reduces fatigue and lethargy
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05:00 fighting against biology (chronotypew)
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17:00 Where does passion intersect with a big problem in the world? That intersection is purpose.
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16:00 passion is selfish, so, like an alchemist, turn it into purpose
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11:00 passion gives dopamine (which is addictive), making us obsessed with our passion
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04:00 passion creates focused attention which, in turn, creates a flow state, which creates more passion (virtuous cycle)
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20:47 take on responsibility even if you are wronged or you didn't do anything particularly wrong
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13:00 a competent man, even if knocked down, will rise back to the top
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10:30 Maximus loses everything at the hands of Commodus "except his character"
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08:30 Maximus and Commodus as symbolic Cain and Abel story
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06:30 Commodus would use force and power at any cost to achieve his ambitions
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02:00 Maximus uses force and power necessary but resorts to being gentle and reserves power
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1:05:00 flow checklist: keeping word to yourself
- see Allen on not fulfilling commitments as causing ambient anxiety
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46:00 Creativity is state of consciousness, not perse skill
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39:00 flow can be misused by people that sell courses or whatever.
Like doping people so "they feel good"
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36:00 after a flow experience, "the ego comes roaring back"
The ego takes pride in flow and hijacks it, and then doing and saying all sorts of weird stuff
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34:00 passion and purpose can become a prison
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32:00 "passion and purpose gives focus for free" Steven Kotler
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28:00 generalism to find the intersection for a "match fit"/passion
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19:00 people teach personality at coaching, but it fails; what scales is biology, not personality
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16:00 brain conserves energy when you think you don't have internal control (locus of control)
17:00 social justice folks have victim mindset
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07:00 flow increases dopamine/pattern recognition
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13:00 new media and tech still tries to solve the same ancient desires
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13:00 the right flow of information is sweetspot between overwhelm and being bored (too little information)
16:00 balancing consumption and creation is sweetspot
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21:00 read books like a hawk (quit books aggressively, be on lookout for what you want and need)
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19:00 Managing information flows is one of the best habits in this time
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52:00 habits create freedom "create capacity and space to have autonomy"
- see Allen on GTD creating space (allen video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETZJSXK7zs
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1:25:00 Structure and some order creates room for creativity, experimentation, and so forth.
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56:00 Allen going on an adventure (inner and outer exploration)
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13:00 default mode recovers glucose; nap, breaks, vacation
Tv and such is not a break; let your mind wander in breaks
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11:00 default mode is non-lineair/creative thinking (problem solving occurs generally)
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12:00 depletion from energy of the brain (glucose)
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09:00 task positive and default mode network
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04:38 multi-tasking doesn't exist; it is "sequential tasking"
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15:00 "David, you are so organised, can't you be spontaneous" GTD actually allows for spontaneous action
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16:00 habits & routines as systems that we don't have to spend any psychic energy into (if designed well, can be useful)
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07:00 structuring the mind with information (away from entropy), via setting a vision, which you break down further into goals, projects, tasks
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Very confusing video on zettelkasten.
- reference note and literate note as separate; though I get the workflow of summarising highlights (just call it only literature or reference notes, call the highlights, highlights, or marginalia)
- fleeting notes seen as todo (which it shouldn't)
These add up to be a lot of "homework" for the user: fleeting notes tasks, going from reference notes to literature notes.
- Then goes on to say that keeping two different notes (reference and literature notes) "gives him permission to not be so selective for highlighting".
Being selective with a book (or anything you read), is actually very important. Making short annotations of what you read, be it marginalia, whatever, is a way we can subvert the homework process (because we already did the thinking as we read it).
04:23 he says that making the literature note forces him to think about the book, but we can be more active when reading, annotating and stuff, so that we don't need to do his process.
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I think MV Summers speaks of this so well: Instead of running away from yourself or avoiding yourself, you are opening the doors to your inner world, letting all the demons out, letting all the darkness out, turning on the lights in the dark recesses of your mind. ... it is a practice... a practice which requires courage...
MV summers on shining light unto darkness
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- see zk on bringing out darkness to shine light unto it (4 section)
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47:00 Piers makes the argument that Israel defend themselves (Hijab on "define defence")
- Romans used to use a strategy in war: they would say they defended themselves, but they used it as justification to attack
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37:00 solving problems/goals (projects) as creating flow (see this as challenge, seeking improvement)
And also have a vision, which you then break down into goals, projects, etc. (Horizons)
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One of the most important of the early writers on coffee was Abd al-Qadir al-Jaziri, who in 1587 compiled a work tracing the history and legal controversies of coffee entitled Umdat al Safwa fi hill al-qahwa عمدة الصفوة في حل القهوة.[15][12] He reported that one Sheikh, Jamal-al-Din al-Dhabhani (d. 1470), mufti of Aden, was the first to adopt the use of coffee (circa 1454). He found that among its properties was that it drove away fatigue and lethargy, and brought to the body a certain sprightliness and vigour.[1]
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In 1511, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca.[15] However, these bans were to be overturned in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Suleiman I, with Grand Mufti Mehmet Ebussuud el-İmadi issuing a fatwa allowing the consumption of coffee.[16]
coffee bans were overturned by Sultan Suleyman I in 1524
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Associated with Sufism, myriad coffee houses grew up in Cairo (Egypt) around the religious University of the Azhar. These coffee houses also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo,[11] and then in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, in 1554.[11]
first coffeehouses grew/were associated from Sufism (see history)
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Sufis in Yemen used the beverage as an aid to concentration and as a kind of spiritual intoxication when they chanted the name of God.[11] Sufis used it to keep themselves alert during their nighttime devotions
(see first annotation) coffee as concentration for sufis
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The word coffee entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve (قهوه), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah (قَهْوَة).[2
"coffee" stems it root from "koffie" (and from kahve, qahwah)
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Coffee houses were established in Western Europe by the late 17th century, especially in Holland, England, and Germany. One of the earliest cultivations of coffee in the New World was when Gabriel de Clieu brought coffee seedlings to Martinique in 1720. These beans later sprouted 18,680 coffee trees which enabled its spread to other Caribbean islands such as Saint-Domingue and also to Mexico. By 1788, Saint-Domingue supplied half the world's coffee.
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Also, in the 15th century, Sufi monasteries in Yemen employed coffee as an aid to concentration during prayers.[1]
Sufis, coffee as aid for focus during prayer
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04:30 education business as scam (bec information is not tangible)
- information and knowledge, historically speaking, is fundamental to society and culture
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10:50 prioritising education (attracting one’s own audience)
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07:50 sharing what excites (writing as stream of consciousness)
Capture as first step in value creation (see my framework wherein it starts with capture)
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04:00 technology as solving solutions vs creating them
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04:40 high highs and low lows: trauma as catalyst for growth (throwing oneself into the unknown) creates meaning
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04:40 stories that give us something we could be (give hope, meaning)
- see "a rising sun" as a fitting metaphor
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02:55 death as a gift for men
03:40 fear of death as corruption/weakening (via Melkor): seeking long life and other ways as coping (not embracing it)
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00:30 sun rises when gondor arrives
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02:00 nederlanders een pavlov reactie op alle rumoer (onbewust israel supporten zonder na te denken)
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03:00 Netanyahu frustreert tweestatenoplossing
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04:43 Amerika probeert vrede te stichten
- is Amerika juist niet degene die pal achter Israel staat?
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04:10 hamas maakt tweestatenoplossing onmogelijk
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1993 oslo akkoord: palestijns zelfbestuur
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2:52 1967 oorlog: israel bezet veel grondgebied
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1948 onafhankelijkheid israel, oorlog, wapenstilstand in 1949
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1:40 voorstel van 1947: joden 55%, palestijnen rest, zij weigeren
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0:50 1920 Brits mandaatgebied (ottomanen verloren)
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05:00 hustle culture: do what you love, and do it aggressively, not loving the thing and working hard leads to burnout
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18:00 overarching mission/obsession for travel (like photography, surfing, etc.)
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20:30 habit strength: context dependence & how much limbic friction required
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17:00 lynchpin habits that make other habits easier (see temporal landmarks and domino habit)
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15:30 limbic friction making habits harder (getting into right state of mind for habits)
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08:50 neuroplasticity as connections between neurons
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11:40 dopamine important in sticking to/dropping a habit
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22:00 no external rewards for pushing self in private life
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18:00 discipline as muscle (is transferable)
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16:00 happiness happens as a byproduct (as result of doing things)
Also systems, processes, routines, habits as way to get outcome (not a feeling, or outcome itself)
- See zk on not chasing outcomes, but process
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09:00 discipline as sensing, is this good/bad
Also see this as idea of 6th sense. Sensing when something is working, isn’t working, is flowing and also not)
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04:00 fear as information of oneself, environment, others
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01:30 embracing fear (reaction to fear is important)
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06:00 experience in childhood, anxiety happening in later stages of life
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04:50 stress vs perceived stress, threats
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04:00 anxiety as worry on projected threats,
05:00 heightened awareness/emphasis on it
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02:53 anxiety not limited to the mind
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06:00 avoiding shame as taking away ability to rewire/grow
07:00 earlier societies were confined physically, so they had to feel shame (and grow)
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08:00 growth is also avoidance of shame: the more an emotion hurts, the more it is important for progress
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04:00 shame as feedback and driving growth (most powerful emotion)
- also see how anxiety can be used and leveraged for growth (as a whisper that aids, rather than destroying)
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24:30 autotelic motivation as the motivation for the experience itself (flow state)
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23:00 intrinsic motivation gives agency, makes you less vulnerable to outside forces (which impose extrinsic motivation)
24:00 “detached like a monk, engaged like a warrior”
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09:00 increases performance increasing neurochemicals & lowering cognitive load - these drive you into flow state, which releases a bunch of other neurochemicals - intrinsic motivation leads into flow, the flow state highers intrinsic motivation, (virtuous cycle)
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03:33 5 intrinsic motivators 04:20 curiosity 04:50 purpose 05:30 mastery 06:00 autotelic: enjoyment of the activity itself (Doris his enjoyment of the topic, and previous three was fairly high, but he didn’t like spreadsheets etc.) 07:00 autonomy
Aligning these 5 as driving tremendous intrinsic motivation
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02:05 intrinsic motivation as fusion energy, made out of things like passion, purpose, curiosity, etc.
- see zk on flow triggers that are intrinsic (as contributing to intrinsic motivation)
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05:25 “fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself” (Dumbledore on how nit mentioning Voldemort his name contributes to fearing the name)
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12. Creativity and Pattern RecognitionTrigger Type: Creative triggerCreativity involves generating novel and original ideas or solutions. When you’re engaged in creative endeavors, you’re challenged to think outside the box, explore unconventional approaches, and break away from routine thought patterns. Pattern recognition refers to the ability to discern meaningful patterns or connections within information or experiences. It involves finding order and coherence in complexity and identifying recurring themes or elements. Pattern recognition is crucial in various activities, such as problem-solving, artistic expression, or learning new skills. Creativity and pattern recognition complement each other in the flow state, leading to a profound sense of engagement. Creative insights often emerge from recognizing patterns and making connections between seemingly unrelated elements.
pattern recognition as discernment of patterns and connections between info (complementary to creativity)
What about discerning patterns between your interests, combining them, and so forth? (combining first and twelfth flow trigger)
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Passion, purpose, and curiosity are psychological elements that serve as powerful flow triggers, driving you to experience heightened engagement and enjoyment in your work. Here’s how each plays into performance and flow: Passion: Passion refers to that deep, fiery connection to a specific activity or endeavor that fuels your journey into flow state. It sparks an intrinsic motivation that propels you to wholeheartedly immerse yourself in the task at hand, surmounting challenges and maintaining unwavering focus throughout. Purpose: Purpose gives meaning and significance to your actions and goals. When your work aligns with your values, it’s easier to get into a flow state. Purpose acts as a guiding compass, enabling you to stay resilient despite obstacles and distractions. Curiosity: Approaching tasks with genuine curiosity is key to hacking flow state. As your mind thirsts for novelty and discovery, curiosity drives unwavering focus, honing creative problem-solving abilities and a deep sense of engagement.The triad of passion, purpose, and curiosity creates a formidable fusion of flow triggers. These triggers help boost intrinsic motivation, achieve a challenge-skill balance, and provide a clear sense of direction to enter flow state.
First flow trigger is passion, purpose, curiosity
- see zk: on how discernment of these is important to achieve flow (discoverable in many sections), and how we have to figure these out in a bottom-up manner, with tools that aid us
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Flow triggers can be categorized into four distinct types: external, internal, group flow, and creative flow triggers.External Triggers: Factors or techniques that deliberately induce a state of flow during a specific task or activity, such as listening to music to help you focusInternal Triggers: Psychological and cognitive factors that spontaneously lead to a state of flow during activities, like completing a challenging task Creative Triggers: Factors that can help you immerse yourself fully in the creative processGroup Flow Triggers: Factors that promote a collective state of flow within a group or team setting
flow can be induced internally, externally, creatively (ie things that get you into a creative process), and group flow triggers
- see external, creative, and group flow triggers as perhaps something that has to do with extended cognition?
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Flow triggers are different for everyone, so understanding your individual flow triggers can help you learn how to perform your best.
flow triggers are diff for everyone, ie. identify the right one for the right person
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13:00 adversity/challenge as tool for enlightenment & self-improvement
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08:00 his sword technique was adaptable, mendable, consistent with the complex nature of reality, that changes constantly, not resisting change but adapting self to it
- see zk on how a more dynamic approach to productivity and systems can help us reflect reality more closely, ever changing
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06:00 Musashi his period of self-isolation as grappling with the mind, the journey within, self-discovery
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08:00 True mastery lies in flow, where action is not forced (Musashi on flow)
09:00 harmonising mind, body, and universe, as way to reach flow & detachment
- see zk on following natural interest, our following the quickening of the spirit, as a process of understanding and harmony
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54:00 motivation isn’t permanent, training the mind beyond motivation
I kind of agree, but for a lot of things, if we find the interest, motivation and enthusiasm, things do come more natural. Goggins does go on to say that motivation is good, could be used to “burn a whole village”.
- see zk on using enthusiasm, for gateway to productive work, not the work itself
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24:30 “one second decision”
26:30 navy seals in cold water (during hell week), mind goes “fight or flight”
28:00 calming the mind in these fight or flight situations
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23:00 “can I take one more step” as way for improving self (achieving succes), creating momentum
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54:30 Max utopian in his head, trust in random people
- see index zk on Apollonian and Dionysian theory (idealism, good or bad?)
57:00 inherently, people are good, but they get corrupted (good and evil)
57:44 “there is some light” (life can be good): see zk 9 section on light & darkness
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31:30 what do you want to say vs what do you want people to feel
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17:00 authenticity runs against barriers, story not telling everything
- see on how stories/language can be limited
18:00 story as providing a lot (see symbolism as achieving this, telling something broader)
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13:25 coming of age stories as transformation
- see as stage in hero’s journey
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These establishments broke down social barriers and allowed for socialization and information exchange.[10]
as place of information exchange (breaking down social barriers)
- also see point on coffee as aiding protestant work ethic (combining information exchange, and mentally stimulating effects of coffee)
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Coffeehouses drew together distinct groups, including academics, idlers, business men, and government officials.[9][10]
see previous coffee as place of social gathering
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In Protestant countries, such as in Britain, coffee was thought to have antierotic as well as mentally stimulating properties.[6] The idea that coffee would spur people into work and improve the quality of such work was highly compatible with the Protestant work ethic ideology. Free of sexual distractions and instilling asceticism, people could presumably live free from sin. It was seen as a positive alternative to alcohol, and Protestant visitors to the Ottoman Empire saw it as consistent was the Christian (Protestant) values of temperance and the Protestant work ethic.[6]
Coffee as consistent with protestant work ethic
- see coffee as source for flow (in combination with distributed cognition)
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Coffeehouses also became more numerous and functioned as community hubs. Before their introduction, the home, the mosque, and the shop were the primary sites of interpersonal interaction.[3]
coffeehouses as place of social gathering
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The popularity of these coffeehouses attracted government interest and were attended by government spies to gather public opinion.
gathering public opinion from Ottoman Coffeehouses
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09:00 Taboo Curse being used by father of Luna in last movie, to betray Harry (the curse very obviously in action)
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03:30 theory: Voldemort tatooing Taboo Curse on death eaters
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01:00 saying Voldemort his name as worry in First Wizarding War: he, and death eaters, might hunt you?
Also, he “Taboo Curse” placed upon himself (see above). Members of the Order of the Phoenix say his name, so people can find him.
In last movie, Harry said Voldemort, and they were caught by snatchers. (and other examples)
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