Okay, so I would say that I atleast have some experience of going from being not that agentic to being more agentic and the stuff that I think worked the best for me was to generally think of my life as a system. This has been the focus of my life over the last 3 years.
More specifically the process that has helped so far for me has been to:
Throw myself into high octane projects and see what I needed to keep up.
Burn out and realise, holy shit, how do these people do it?
(Environment is honestly really important, I’ve tried out a bunch of different working conditions and your motivation levels can wary drastically.)
Started looking into the reasons for why this might be that I can’t do it and other can.
Went into absolutely optimising the shit out of my health by tracking stuff using bearable and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, Huberman is a house god of mine.
(Sleep is the most important here, crazy right?)
Supplement and technique tips for sleep:
Glycine, Ashwagandha, Magnesium Citrate
Use a sad lamp within 30 minutes of waking
Yoga Nidras for naps and for falling asleep faster.
He’s got a phd in medicine and is quite the experimental and smart person. (He tries a bunch of shit on himself and sees how it goes.)
Started going into my psychological background and talked to CBT therapists as well as meditating a lot.
I’m like 1.5k hours into this at this point and it has completely changed my life and my view of myself and what productivity means, e.t.c.
It has helped me realise that a lot of the behaviours that made me less productive where based on me being a sensitive person and having developed unhealthy coping mechanisms.
This lead to me having to relive through past traumas whilst having compassion and acceptance for myself.
This has now lead me to having good mechanisms instead of bad ones, It made me remove my access to video games and youtube (willingly!)
For me this has been the most important, Waking up and The Mind Illuminated up until stage 6-7 is the recommendation I have for anyone who wants to start. Also, after 3-6 months of TMI, try to go to a 10 day retreat, especially if you can find a metta retreat. (Think of this as caring and acceptance instead of loving-kindness btw, it helps)
Now I generally, have a strict schedule in terms of when I can do different things during the day.
The app appblock can allow you to block apps and device settings which means you can’t actually deblock them on your phone.
Cold turkey on the computer can do the same and if you find a patch through another app you can just patch that by blocking the new app.
I’m just not allowed to be distracted from the systems that I have.
Confidence:
I feel confident in myself and what I want to do in the world not because I don’t have issues but rather because I know where my issues are and how to counteract them.
The belief is in the process rather than the outcomes. Life is poker, you just gotta optimise the way you play your hands, the EV will come.
Think of yourself as a system and optimise the shit out of it. Weirdly enough, this has made me focus a lot more on self-care than I did before.
Of course, it’s a work in progress but I want to say that it is possible and that you can do it.
Also, randomly, here’s a CIV VI analogy for you on why self-care is op.
If you want to be great at CIV, one of the main things to do is to increase your production and economics as fast as possible. This leads to an exponential curve where the more production and economy you have the more you can produce. This is why CIV pros in general rush Commercial Hubs and markets as internal trade routes yield more production.
Your production is based on your psychological well being and the general energy levels that you have. If you do a bunch of tests on this and figure out what works for you, then you have even more production stats. This leads to more and more of that over time until you plateau at the end of that logistic growth.
Okay, so I would say that I atleast have some experience of going from being not that agentic to being more agentic and the stuff that I think worked the best for me was to generally think of my life as a system. This has been the focus of my life over the last 3 years.
More specifically the process that has helped so far for me has been to:
Throw myself into high octane projects and see what I needed to keep up.
Burn out and realise, holy shit, how do these people do it?
(Environment is honestly really important, I’ve tried out a bunch of different working conditions and your motivation levels can wary drastically.)
Started looking into the reasons for why this might be that I can’t do it and other can.
Went into absolutely optimising the shit out of my health by tracking stuff using bearable and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, Huberman is a house god of mine.
(Sleep is the most important here, crazy right?)
Supplement and technique tips for sleep:
Glycine, Ashwagandha, Magnesium Citrate
Use a sad lamp within 30 minutes of waking
Yoga Nidras for naps and for falling asleep faster.
Also checkout my biohackers in-depth guide on this at https://desmolysium.com/
He’s got a phd in medicine and is quite the experimental and smart person. (He tries a bunch of shit on himself and sees how it goes.)
Started going into my psychological background and talked to CBT therapists as well as meditating a lot.
I’m like 1.5k hours into this at this point and it has completely changed my life and my view of myself and what productivity means, e.t.c.
It has helped me realise that a lot of the behaviours that made me less productive where based on me being a sensitive person and having developed unhealthy coping mechanisms.
This lead to me having to relive through past traumas whilst having compassion and acceptance for myself.
This has now lead me to having good mechanisms instead of bad ones, It made me remove my access to video games and youtube (willingly!)
For me this has been the most important, Waking up and The Mind Illuminated up until stage 6-7 is the recommendation I have for anyone who wants to start. Also, after 3-6 months of TMI, try to go to a 10 day retreat, especially if you can find a metta retreat. (Think of this as caring and acceptance instead of loving-kindness btw, it helps)
Now I generally, have a strict schedule in terms of when I can do different things during the day.
The app appblock can allow you to block apps and device settings which means you can’t actually deblock them on your phone.
Cold turkey on the computer can do the same and if you find a patch through another app you can just patch that by blocking the new app.
I’m just not allowed to be distracted from the systems that I have.
Confidence:
I feel confident in myself and what I want to do in the world not because I don’t have issues but rather because I know where my issues are and how to counteract them.
The belief is in the process rather than the outcomes. Life is poker, you just gotta optimise the way you play your hands, the EV will come.
Think of yourself as a system and optimise the shit out of it. Weirdly enough, this has made me focus a lot more on self-care than I did before.
Of course, it’s a work in progress but I want to say that it is possible and that you can do it.
Also, randomly, here’s a CIV VI analogy for you on why self-care is op.
If you want to be great at CIV, one of the main things to do is to increase your production and economics as fast as possible. This leads to an exponential curve where the more production and economy you have the more you can produce. This is why CIV pros in general rush Commercial Hubs and markets as internal trade routes yield more production.
Your production is based on your psychological well being and the general energy levels that you have. If you do a bunch of tests on this and figure out what works for you, then you have even more production stats. This leads to more and more of that over time until you plateau at the end of that logistic growth.
Best of luck!