markhollis
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Comment · 5 years ago
I am doing something that is similar. But in my case, I maintain the position for 10 seconds. When bending backwards, I try to maintain my head in the same 'vertical position' (if that makes sense to visualize). My physical therapist described it as making a 'double chin'.
Comment · 5 years ago
I remember the documentary 'The Century of the Self' where Adam Curtis talked about the origins of personal development and self-help.
Comment · 5 years ago
One issue that can develop over time is cervicogenic headache. This issue strains your muscles that span over your head. This origins from bad posture, typically from a screen-based job. Some exercises that help in these area, according to my physical therapist, are bending over your head as much as possible. Hold this position for 10 seconds. Then move your head back, such that you make a double chin. Also hold this for 10 seconds. The more you do these exercises, the better. They should strenghten your neck musculature. This way, you will develop a flexible neck.
Comment · 5 years ago
I got another perspective.
I was/am someone who is labelled as an underperformer by my boss.
I work at a electronics production firm, where I did some programming work. During feedback season, I was moved departments. Now I just do soldering, all days long.
What do I do in my situation? I feel like being in despair. I feel like I don't have any other options. Clearly, this situation feels like suicide for my career.
I was recently diagnosed with ASD, bipolar disorder type 2 and depression, for what it's worth.
Comment · 6 years ago
The author of Existential Comics offers some advice:
https://existentialcomics.com/blog/1/How_to_study_philosophy...
I like courses or philosophical works, which focus on a common themes, common threads. That allows one to see more connections across different thinkers.
One instance of this is John Vervaeke's Awaking from the meaning crisis (which isn't only philosophy, but also cognitive science).
Other courses like that are those from John Searle (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind).
Hubert Dreyfus has a course on existentialism in literature and film.
Thinking of it, there is also a channel called Like Stories Of Old. The maker publishes video-essays, which are often philosophical in tone and reference existential thinkers like Kierkegaard.
My own journey into philosophy started with Wittgenstein (apart from an introduction in Greek Philosophy in high school).
Comment · 6 years ago
I am sorry. I meant Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASS is the acronym in my native language, I mixed it up.
Comment · 6 years ago
I was a month ago diagnosed with bipolar type 2, together with ASS. I experience sleep problems.
Some feelings in this article are familiar. To me, it was the feeling of being excluded for life from people.
Also I am going through work problems. I find myself at a difficult place in life now...
Comment · 6 years ago
I wonder how prize winners feel about such huge sums of money. Especially that very succesful people who win such prizes tend to win multiple prizes.
Comment · 6 years ago
Some days ago I saw a video that suggested that subjective time seems to be slower when we are younger because our neurons are firing more actively. As we grow older, they tend to fire less. Anyway, it is just one aspect.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm also learning some algebraic geometry at the moment:
Some resources I have used are:
* video lectures by Richard Borcherds
* Lecture notes by Andreas Gathmann (https://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~gathmann/class/alggeom-200...)
* This blog: https://rigtriv.wordpress.com/ag-from-the-beginning/
* An infinite large napkin, by Evan Chen (https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf)
It also found it helpful to learn some (algebraic) number theory, to get a sense of where some of the motivation comes from (e.g. elliptic curves, modular forms). Grothendieck's work is abstract, but he was always motivated by concrete problems (e.g. Weil conjectures).