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The Bodyguard

Miss Bala

Hunter x Hunter

Dopesick

Malcolm in the Middle

Personal Missions

For the sake of further enabling my delusion of being a super spy, I’m officially going to start calling all of my personal projects missions.

Mission: Dream Continuity

According to the dream continuity hypothesis dreams are viewed as continuous of waking life.

I realise that most of the dreams I have are strongly influenced by the horror and action movies I enjoy watching. And the continuity hypothesis has got me thinking that perhaps at my current level, having control over my dream self shouldn’t be my goal. But rather, I might find more success in influencing the context of the dream itself by taking advantage of the idea of that continuity hypothesis.

Mission: Inversion Mindset

At the end of everyday I like to reflect on a baseline checklist of items that I think of as necessary for my version of a successful day (ex. I felt in the zone, I had mental clarity, etc.).

There’s a way of thinking, in which you consider the opposite of what you want, and it is known as inversion.

I thought it might be fruitful to try and incorporate that mindset into my baseline checklist, whereby I practice reframing my goals from achievement-oriented to avoidant-oriented, because avoiding pain is a more salient motivator than pursuing pleasure. So now my list includes items like: I avoided an ordinary day, I avoided overlooking time, etc…

Weekly Wind Up

Make a list at the beginning of each week describing what you’re hoping the week to come will look like.

Happiness as a default state

🔗 /Ali Abdaal video [24:18]/

Happiness is my default state, so rather than chase ways to augment happiness, I might consider focussing on ways to eliminate the things that make me unhappy. “The source of happiness is to try to eliminate sources of unhappiness”

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Exercising Willpower

Whenever you go for a workout, you’re not just exercising your body, you’re also exercising your willpower.

Presenting Paradox

I was recently confronted with the opportunity to present something to a group. I’ve never enjoyed presenting, but a common perspective is that we should try to overcome our limitations. I realised that convincing myself to want to overcome the challenge of becoming comfortable with presenting is a paradox, since it would mean me learning to do something that I don’t like, for the sake of me doing the thing that I don’t like even more.

I spy books for the other senses

I spy books for the other senses. What if you had to use your sense of smell to find specific things on a page.

Mind replication

What if you could replicate the current version of your mind and upload it into a movie context to watch how you’d react in certain situations?