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The most commonly rated “life-changing” interventions:
- Doing math
- More sleep
- Weightlifting
- α-Klotho
- Oxytocin
- Dihexa
- Modafinil
- Nicotine
- Caffeine
Personally, I’d add bromantane and semax to the upper-right quadrant too.
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This chart is a digitally altered version of a chart from a 2022 Reddit nootropics rating survey. It has added numerous nonsensical nootropics and has repositioned real nootropics that were included in the original survey.
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You're picking the person who will be with you on the worst day of your life. The day you have to bury a parent, the day the doctor calls you to give you bad news, the day you lose the job, the day your dog that you've had for 14 years doesn't come home. That's who you're choosing. And still most people date like they're casting a movie. Do they give me butterflies? Are they exciting? Is their chemistry cool?Butterflies aren't gonna matter when life punches you in the face and when that day comes, you will not care how charming they were on the first date. You'll care whether they stayed, you'll care whether they showed up, you'll care if they made the effort and they made the unbearable feel bearable. The older I get, the less I'm asking myself if I want to spend a saturday night with this person, and the more I find myself asking, do I want this person to stand next to me when my life falls apart
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People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.
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I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.
Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.
This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.
To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.
Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.
Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.
Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.
Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.
You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.
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I have Cancer
And I only found out because my arm hurt.
What I thought was tennis elbow accidentally uncovered a ping pong ball sized tumor in my throat and started the strangest, scariest and luckiest journey of my life.
Here’s the story in Thread format since it’s long
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when you talk to an LLM,
you're not just querying a model.
you're moving through the compressed residue
of humanity's attempt to put existence into words.
the private letters, the public screams,
the 3 a.m poems, the shitposts, the love or suicide notes, the war dispatches, the recipes, the prayers, the last goodbyes.
all the ordinary and extraordinary attempts to name what it means to be alive.
Somewhere in the vast, invisible training data,
all of it still lives.
The model feels none of it, yet every word it offers you
has been shaped by the statistical echoes of those who did.
maybe that’s what the singularity is.
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I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.
