January Favourites 2021
Table of Contents
- January Favourites 2021
- 🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
- 📺 My Favourite Show of the Month
- 🛠️ My Favourite Tool of the Month
- 💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
- 🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
- 🎸 My Favourite Music of the Month
🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
Childstar
You Can Count on Me
Escape Room (2019)
The Boy 2
The Fault in Our Stars
📺 My Favourite Show of the Month
🛠️ My Favourite Tool of the Month
Chrome Highlighter Extension
I only just learned about this useful Chrome highlighter extension and it's been a great way to quickly capture and revisit useful info I've found while reading online.
💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
Blood flow restriction training
I learned about blood flow restriction training after watching this video:
It's a practice I've incorporated into my workouts this past month and while muscle growth is yet to be seen, I was immediately able to perform more consecutive push ups than before.
Added social drives to my interpersonal directories
A few months ago I took some time to consider the qualities I value the most when it comes to my interpersonal relationships. I learned that my most meaningful social drives are comfort, motivation, respect, inspiration, and fun. In order to jot down details I want to remember about people in my life, I maintain a database of everyone I meet in a Notion database. After learning about my social drives, I decided to add a new column to my Social Tracker that labels the social drive(s) that drive my connection with each person. It's been a really useful data point for helping me figure out why I do or don't connect well with the people in my life.
🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
- Carpentered environment: virtually all of the corners that we see in our everyday environment are 90 degree angles
- Unless we're looking straight on at something, the angles we actually see are not 90 degrees; the images that form on our retinas are typically trapezoids of various shapes and sizes. From extensive experience, our brains know that they should really be rectangles and right angles. So our brains use these altered shapes to infer depth information, which in our recto-linear world is almost always correct. This is case for a trapezoidal window, which is what allows for this illusion.
- Anamorphosis: a distorted projection requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices or both to view a recognisable image.
You need to find a way around the learned helplessness mentality and find a way to realise that things that seem impossible can be accomplished, if you really accept that you have control of these things... that it is not outside of your control.
- He makes an interesting argument implicating the school system's role in fostering learned helplessness in students
There's a small number of jobs where the career path is clearly laid out. If you want to be a doctor, then you have to go to med school; if you want to be a lawyer, then you have to go to law school. But I think that there's a much larger group of careers where you really have to figure out a way to do it yourself. And that's the whole point. That's the whole challenge.
- You have to demonstrate that you can do what you want to do.
- "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"
- When you're contemplating the things that you can and cannot change, air on the side of thinking that you can change much more than you can.
- Everything seems impossible until it's done.
Assuming a certain level of freedom, go all out in both directions so that you can learn your limits, then make a base level of income to meet your needs and the needs of your dependents , while using the rest of your time to pursue something that excites you. Ideally, this something would be high risk and high reward, and you'd work in the direction of creating a life where you have the option to say no to things that drain you of energy. Reassess your limits and aims as you grow as a person.
- Scientific research suggests that their are downsides to avoiding boredom
- When you're bored your mind wanders and this has been shown to be useful for creativity
- A study of participants engaged in a boring task found that participant's were more creative after being relieved from their boredom, compared to participants who were not engaged in a boring task
- Studies have also shown that boredom may make us more altruistic
- Studies have shown that more bored participants were more likely to give to charity or donate blood
- Being bored has also shown to increase autobiographical planning