Work to Disappear

topics:

• fitness in individuals vs fitness in the species
• a deep dive into Yukio Mishima, his life and death
• a conscious effort to improve
• working on a form (the body) that you know will inevitably disappear
  • struggling hard to perfect a body you can throw away in a moment to achieve a goal
• i need to breathe more while under load
• i was strongest my junior year of college after study abroad (and a bit in 2021)
• you can only know whats possible for your body by pushing it to the limit
• training a fit body makes any clothing look better on you – a better investment in clothes
• things i got away with in my 20s are no longer the case now
• the hard answer of "how are you"
  • finances, emotional, goals in progress
• a commitment to adult learning and skilling up
  • trade consumption for production
• i want to be a polymath
• whats your sample size to be in the top n%
  • are you competing within your field or against everyone
• as an adult its too easy to stop learning – you need to force it
• we too quickly hyper fixate on parts of our person instead of the whole
  • we need to diversify
  • you are the only person stuck with the burden of your identity
• i'm actually liking this format
• in the future: comment sections, growth on social media, unlisted videos