/fit/ - Fitness, Health, and Feels

>>88357

Absolutely nothing

Educated myself on women, got first hand experience talking 'real shit' with the only one I've wanted in my life 10+ years.

I can relate to anyone but she had such a wall up it was impossible. Now I realise what a dolt she is, runs from attachment cos daddy left but is too immature to even think about being honest never mind tackling her own psyche (and she might never be) and now suddenly I'm not good enough to have a drink with. Well fuck you too missy.

Now I wonder what I ever saw in her past her tits. Ignorant and uncivil little cow too. What a fool I was imagining she was worth the effort, I blame my old stupid brain as much as I do hers.

Thank god I'm better now, I was still thinking like I was 20 years ago some mooneyed fag before this kicked the last of it out of me.

Never expose a weakness to a female, they'll make you hate yourself and them for doing it.

>>88369

>Never expose a weakness to a female, they'll make you hate yourself and them for doing it.

That actually isn't my experience. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't know.

I totally feel with you on chasing the false woman. Thank God I grew out of this. Sorry you had to go through it.

>>88357

I drive around a lot for work so I spend that time listening to audiobooks. Some of my favorites:

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Commentaries - Julius Caesar

Metamorphoses - Ovid

Iliad/Odyssey - Homer

I also listen to some motivational stuff like Zig Ziglar and lectures from the Great Courses.

>>88357

Not exactly mental gains, but I'm currently doing psychology on uni, it's fun and I need to read a lot, aside from that, I'm reading more, comic books to be precise decent ones, like sandman and the list goes so I guess it counts in some way or another.

>inb4 grow a pair of balls you nerd

I've gotten more educated on politics and how the world is generally doing. Music has also become a big part of my life.

>>88385

I'm studying law. It's easy for both lawyers and psychologists to become blinkered specialists. My advice: Never let go of your common sense and remain skeptical of your own field. Good psychologists can be awesome. Keep it up!

As for comic books, that's just another medium to present a story. Whether a story is good or bad does not depend on the medium. Hell, there's even brilliant video games out there, if you look past Call of Battleduty: Black-Ops 4.

I'm reading The Bothers Karamazov, just after reading A Brief History of Time and a bio of Einstein, i'm also big into /his/, /film/, /mu/sic, /sci/ence and /lang/uage.

>>88431

No /lit/?

Im doing an A-level in maths and going to college for 3 A-level equivalents (bio/chem/physics). I spend most of my time making mental gains and its fun. Im really enjoying maths and do 5 hours a day 4 days a week. Rest of my time is spent doing the other subjects.

If i get good grades ill be off to uni in september, been accepted by 4 unis. Soon to be a physicsfag hopefully

I'm a reading books…

In a foreign language.

Yeah I know. Americans can only speak freedom.

studying anatomy and robotics and experimenting with artificial muscle to make the perfect robo-waifu

>want to make mental gains

>have two track mind

>first track tries to read the book

>second track wanders off and berates me for all the stupid things I've done

>second track is always louder.

I though anti depressants would help, but all they do is help my mood. I can't concentrate because I hate myself. What do?

>>88509

Meditate.

>>88484

I don't read as much in general, so was pretty lost there

I'm learning German. It's been going well. I bought "Ich Kämpfe" from a website, it has the original German text and images in the front and English in the back so I can correct myself when reading it. I've also started watching some shows in German. Man this is an autistic language.

Grinding Anki to learn moonrunes. I'm about half way into JLPT N4, I estimate.

>>88376

I love the Great Courses. Very underrated series, and a lot of them are available on public torrent trackers.

>>88535

I should really brush up on mine. The nice thing is that it's easy to learn when you speak English already.

>>88382

How has Salt been??

>>88541

It's pretty interesting. I didn't realise just how fucking important salt was. It's a very nice read, would recommend.

>>88527

If you don't have a 3DS, what are some similar games to Brain Age? I play blitz chess, which is probably similar.

On the OP's topic, I am taking CS courses, playing chess (and some other games such as Go and Acquire), and reading, keeping up on news and politics.

>>88632

the game that I posted is the newest one for 3DS, which specifically has exercises for working memory. they're nothing crazy, but they're the type of activity that can only be recreated on a video game. I don't know of anything similar, sorry man :/

WHY WAS THIS THREAD NOT TITLED "BRAIN GAINS"?

Here it is: a bad motherfucker's Brain Gains hit list.

1. Learning to code.

Been about a year since I started studying for real. Coursera and Hacker Rank have the best coding assignments. Once you learn to code like a boss nigga, you get your ass on Github and you start contributing to an OPEN SOURCE project to get yourself known. Then transition to a six-figure career as the master of technology in a world of troglodytes. In this future, either you command the technology, or the technology commands you. Snapchat took a week to code, and it's worth a billion dollars. There is no other career with a return-on-investment like that.

2. Reading like a motherfucker.

Last year I read about 30 books. This year I'm bumping it up to 50, and these ain't short little shits, either. This is real academic shit, the literature that has shaped fiction as we know it and the nonfiction that has built the world. You will never get anywhere in life if you don't understand how the world works, and you will never do that until you understand how people think, and you will NEVER understand how people think until you've read so much that your eyes bleed.

3. Learning nootropics for focus and staying on task.

I discovered the impossible world of medicinal brain gains when I learned about nootropics. I'm mildly autistic and have toruble focusing; moderate ADD. Been hard for me, historically, to really apply to a task. Nootropics had a way to fix all that. Now I'm a regular user of modafinil, theanine, priracetam. You should read the results of this study.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/01/2016-nootropics-survey-results/

^ That's a fuckton of data from some of the most intelligent people in the world. Those are the chemicals they use to get productive. Learn which nootropics do what, and experiment.

Note to reader: This is a plot hook. This is the beginning of a story arc. Nootropics are what it feels like to level up.

That's all I got for now, the big strokes anyway. Hope this advice reached at least one of you fuckin' assholes.

>>88632

Brain training a la 3DS games and lumosity.com is of questionable effectiveness. research studies have failed to prove the existence of far-transfer of the skills you learn playing the games.

Translation: you get better at playing the games, but we can't prove you get better at thinking.

Translated translation: That shit ain't brain gains.

>>88659

>Last year I read about 30 books. This year I'm bumping it up to 50, and these ain't short little shits, either.

My goal is 52 for this year. I'm already at 15.

Also, are you Jamie Lewis? Because he's mildy autistic, too.

>>88527

i've hard that those games are useless and just make you good at the games themselves, i'd learn to play an instrument or a new language instead

>>88679

>Masturbation: The Post

>>88679

You might like ritual magick, or the OTO. Jesus says it's OK.

>>88659

Sometimes you have to just buck the current "scientific opinion." Without a laborious investigation of their methodology, I can't trust any paper really. Also keep in mind how a recent paper claimed that the majority of sociology papers were false, or something like that. The main reason I question scientific studies on chess is that like weight lifting, chess is more than just repetition of the exercise, it requires the right attitude, intensity, etc. It's possible that in a lab setting, the benefits of chess are lost.

Anecdotally I can say that chess does improve cognition. I think the benefits are longer term and subtle, and thus hard to record in a scientific study. At the very least, it's a common pastime for high IQ people. http://www.chess-poster.com/english/notes_and_facts/famous_people_who_played_chess.htm

So maybe it's not improving IQ but is somehow necessary for high IQ people to play chess, perhaps as a way to destress.

>>88659

>Learning to code

What language did you start with? C?

>get your ass on Github and contribute

10/10 plan, exactly what i'm also going to do. Remember to contribute to something with high relevance in the industry, and preferrably not one of the ephemeral trendy node.js-type of projects.

>Reading like a motherfucker

Post a list of good books already

>>88729

me again. I'm not saying to go overboard on chess, but it's better than watching TV and it's probably the best pasttime for when you have nothing else to do and don't want to read or program.

>>88730

Contribute to a roguelike. The advanced programming class at my uni, basically all the hw is to create a roguelike game in C and C++.

I can't say how useful it is, but apparently it's useful to the professor. Plus, roguelikes are easy to contribute to online.

>>88733

Really, a roguelike game? How does that make sense? What's special about roguelikes as opposed to other games when it comes to programming skill?

>>88765

I think the professor has a fondness for roguelikes, for one thing. Roguelikes are good for learning programming beyond simple pong or snake games you can make as a beginner.

Roguelikes in this context meaning a 2D ascii-rendered on a terminal. You only need a C compiler and terminal to compile them and play, and no video card to display the graphics.

The random spawning and open-ended nature of the game allows for many different items, characters, etc. so there's a lot of object oriented programming, but not too much excessive design and complex spatial shit that I'm assuming you would get from 3d games. The NPCs use path finding algorithms to chase the PC, so you have algorithms too.

>>88785

There's also a community online of roguelike enthusiasts who develop and play roguelikes, so it's easy to find help or open source games to contribute to.l

>>88728

>You also sound like the type that should go take an IQ test for a nice reality check.

For once, I think an IQ-test really would help.

>>88679

>I meditate 2 hours a day, and have the inability to feel negative emotions including boredom.

>I am constantly frustrated at my inability to engage in un intellectual conversations

>>88679

You seem to have fallen up your own asshole

>The day I gave my life to Jesus Christ, I was given the gift of fractal vision.

Lol no.

>>88729

correlation doesn't mean causation, perhaps what made them famous came before the chess, chess might not have anything to do with it, i'm sure you could make a list of famous people who picked their nose as kids, it won't mean anything.

>>88884

I don't think the consensus is as clear cut as you imply. The wikipedia page, for example, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_as_mental_training) on the subject does not seem to suggest the evidence is so clear cut, in fact it seems to suggest in favor of it.

>>88659

There is a >>>/nootropics/ board. No one ever posts there though.

The only lumosity game with any scientific backing is dual n-back. You can get free dual n-back software.

>>88852

SC1 is great and all, but those super units in SC2 feel so good.

>>88910

>There is a >>>/nootropics/ board. No one ever posts there though.

Too bad, but I do think we can have discussions about them here. It does fit in, in my opinion.

>The only lumosity game with any scientific backing is dual n-back. You can get free dual n-back software.

Nice. Looking it up.

>>88659

What's the best nootropic to get? I can't get modafinil it's expensive as shit and I won't get a prescription. Are nootropics even worth it if you don't spend a shit load of money on them?

>>88922

ouch. I own /nootropics/

>>88976

If you're new to nootropics you should start out with piracetam. Its the prototypical nootropic. Its not a stimulant. In fact, most nootropics aren't.

Most people need to take piracetam with a choline source or they get headaches. You can use choline bitartrate, which is cheap, but most of it gets destroyed in the colon. Personally I use CDP choline, which has other health effects.

After you've used piracetam for awhile, you can decide if you want to add in other nootropics. There's a shitload of different compounds you can take to tweak you brain. The racetam class itself has many related compounds. After piracetam you may want to try adding in aniracetam or oxiracetam.

TL;DR Start with 4 grams of piracetam twice a day. Have a choline source like choline bitartrate on hand in case you get headaches.

This thread turned out pretty interesting.

>Nootropics

Burguer Please

>>88993

What led you to choosing to experiment with nootropics? Did you work with smarter people and realize you had a problem and couldn't compete with them? Did you first work out any stress, diet, sleep, etc. problems you may have first, before resorting to nootropics?

>>89037

It was a combination of things, really. I've always had a love of chemistry, and used to do a lot of drugs. I've also always had a desire to be as smart as I can. I also had always been very smart, but once thought I was losing it.

I got great grades all through high school without even trying. Not straight A's, but damn close. I was a chem major in college. I breezed through my first year, as I had already taught myself organic chemistry, and my other classes were relatively easy. Shit was so easy I started skipping classes and my grades stayed the same. The problem was, as I advanced and the classes got harder and got into stuff I didn't already know, my grades tanked, I started taking shit over, and I almost flunked out. This was a long painful process. I took a semester off once because of financial aid issues then eventually spent two years out of school working to save up money. The job I had let me surf the internet and/or watch in my downtime. When I first started the job I remembered nootropics and researched them. I figured it would be my key to passing my few remaining classes and graduating. Of course by the end of the two years, I had developed an actual work ethic and got back to school and kicked ass. I got straight A's in those final semesters by doing two things. Always going to class unless I was legitimately ill, and always doing my homework. No nootropics needed. But the hedonistic transhumanist in me said, "Why not enhance your brain with chemicals and try to leave humanity behind?"

So I did.

Current Stack:

4g Piracetam 2xday

250mg CDP Choline 2xday

10mg sublingual Noopept 1xday

5mg sublingual methylcobalamin 1xday

1200mcg Semax nasal spray 1xday

1450mg decaffeinated green tea extract in the morning and another 725mg in the early afternoon

>>89047

Sounds like shit reasoning, but to each their own.

>>88730

>what language did you start with?

Javascript, but that was an awful decision because it's about as stable as a rusty chainsaw and fundamentally confusing.

New coders should start learning with Python, because it's incredibly simple and intuitive syntactically, but also powerful on its own. Even more so with the right libraries. It's also used literally everywhere. Coursera has a great Python course by Rice U.

Don't know much about C, sadly.

>>88733

No, don't code for a fucking video game. That shit's for children.

Get your code accepted to a software project that makes money or get used by thousands of people to get their job done. That's how you distinguish yourself from the hordes of grognards in the programming world; by actually thinking about the return-on-investment for the hours you spend coding.

>>88976

Modaf isn't that expensive. You can buy from some places with bitcoin for a discount. Search for modacat

>>88373

You should expose everything to a female, that's what true confidence means. You'll probably fail miserably if you try to emulate a personality and you'll look like a complete idiot.

>>89284

If you don't want to reach your maximum potential, what are you doing on /fit/

>>89494

I say it's shit reasoning because it sounds like you just took the meds without having a good reason to. Plenty of people get by without them. Taking nootropics without a good reason is like taking steroids for no reason. Without a near professional level undertaking in some kind of mind-related activity, I don't see the purpose. Even programming is not that mentally demanding that you would need nootropics.

>>89481

I agree, but open source games will be more welcoming to newcomers, and some of them even have guides for newbie devs. Learn how to contribute to open source with something unimportant first, like a game. Then you can consider contributing to Linux or some other software with hardcore developers. At least that is my plan, and I have already contributed to some games for that purpose.

>>88659

>>88632

N-BACK niggers!

http://www.soakyourhead.com/dual-n-back.aspx

>>89510

Wouldn't Hayek belong more on /liberty/?

whats the best version of dual N-back for android?

>>89510

YAAAASSS

>>89506

I upped things to those doses when I started working as a QC chemist for a pharmaceutical manufacturer, if that makes you feel any better. It was much more demanding than programming most of the time. Lots of exacting work, then checking and rechecking everything. Then you send your double checked work off to someone whose only job is to check your work, and if they find a mistake they send it back to you and you have to fix it, then they check that you fixed it properly. You do this all day long, while working with all sorts of dangerous chemicals. Don't get me started on the mandatory overtime.

>>89729

>>89729

Is there a reason you don't use stimulants and/or caffeine?

>>90041

Forgot the text. Dammit.

I'm 3/4 through "The Ego and its Own" now. It's pretty interesting, I gotta say, although not a must-read.

>>90039

I use nicotine ad lib. I switched from smoking to vaping a few years ago. I don't use caffiene or other stims very often because I'm kind of a slow metabolizer and they tend to fuck with my sleep unless I take small doses first thing in the morning.

I just bought a book named The Monks Of War: The Military Religious Orders by Desmond Seward from the book fair in town

Being a Muslim, I guess it's time to see some dude who joined The Knights of Malta's take on crusades and do some reading on the crusades from an Islamic and an Orientalist perspective, see if it all makes sense

I am also reading Asimov's Foundation and Empire, it is great so far and I've really enjoyed it and its sly character, might actually need to read into Psychohistory before going any further with Foundation

nobullypls

>>88357

Have read a lot of Russian Literature in the past year. It's not really too intellectually taxing, but at least I can brag about it.

>>90093

Have it got you to consider an hero?It's fuckin' depressing man

And what exactly have you read, Tolstoy and Chekhov or have you gone with the more modern sci fi stuff like The Strugatsky Brothers?

Also, could some Deutschbruh here drop some insight on German classic literature?

Only dudes I ever hear of are Goethe and Thomas Mann, I have only read a book by Cornelia Funke named The Thief Lord because it was made into a film when I was young and I actually enjoyed it, There's also Franz Kafka but I no nothing about him

You also had quite the philosophers, There's Nietzsche, I guess his philosophy could be quite the motive for us all Although Zarathustra was hard as fuck to read, I didn't finish it, so full of metaphors you get lost everytime, and then there's Kant I am gonna be the sickest kant of them all, I might just try reading his Critique of Pure Reason

>>90091

>In the west they teach of the terrible racist crusaders who just wanted to kill Jews and Muslims

Well, yeah, that's pretty much it, they also give examples of Cruelty and dishonest of the crusaders against everyone including eastern christians, they don't delve in too deeply though, so I decided to read it from the perspective of this dude and follow it by a book by Karen Armstrong to skip the school ajenda and make up my mind

Only problem I've seen is that A)Al Quds What you may call Jerusalem is the holy land for all three religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism Kikism as you may call it

B)Technically christian empires weren't exactly the "Leave us in peace, please!" type, no grudges held because that's how Empires act

>the middle east was easily more advanced than Europe till maybe the 14th or 15th centuries

Yeah, till the fall of Andalus, the Arab Empires had many great scientists and thinkers with numerous examples when Europe was basically in its dark ages maybe till the renaissance or something

>It pisses me off that leftist revisionist history ignores the context of the conflicts and only talks about the atrocities committed by the armies.

>Do Muslim schools also play into this?

Well, I guess it's how it is all over the world at schools, and given that the educational system in Egyptstan is cucked as fuck it just makes sense they try shaming crusaders by mentioning their fuckups

>>90099

Besides Kant, there's Schopenhauer and Hegel. Also a ton of others, but I think that if you know Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer and Hegel, you're already fairly good. Wittgenstein is also a name, but honestly, I know next to nothing about his philosophy. Same goes for Heidegger. Then there's Max Stirner, who's pretty nice. Ernst Bloch was a marxist cuck, and Hans Jonas is barely worth mentioning. I still mention him because his philosphy is a pile of steaming leftist shit and deserves a trashcan of its own. Fuck this guy.

As for classical literature, check out Friedrich Schiller, he's extremely important. Bertolt Brecht is another marxist cuck, read a work from him and then throw it away because holy shit what a fucking communistic cunt. Wolfgang Borchert gives very good accounts of post-war Germany, so give him a read if you're interested in that.

>>90097

Read:

War & Peace

Anna Karenina

Crime and punishment

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Brothers Karamazov

>tfw nobody believes you've read all those books because you're /fit/ and look like a normie

>>90093

Have you read 'Dead Souls'?

Or Sorokin. Or Pelevin? If not, do so. 'Diary of the Oprichnik' and 'Generation P'.

>>90099

>Yeah, till the fall of Andalus, the Arab Empires had many great scientists and thinkers with numerous examples when Europe was basically in its dark ages maybe till the renaissance or something

That's overstimating it.

>>90100

Are you sure you're not the cuck?

>>90103

Reading the Brothers Karamazov right now, what did you think of it? i'm almost halfway through

>>90182

>That's overstimating it.

Could you please explain, I was about to right something along the lines of "Prove me wrong, faggot!" but then I realized I am being an arse would love an argument backed with evidence and I am not talking about the age of illumination in Andalus alone

>Reading the Brothers Karamazov right now, what did you think of it? i'm almost halfway through

I read a short abridged version of it back in prep school, dude was it fuckin' depressing

>>90196

because /leftypol/ is full of anarchists

>>90217

Right, I forgot the left appropriated anarchism, to the point where they refuse to call anarchocapitalism anarchist because muh wage labor. Nevermind that Tucker never objected to it per se, either.

Max Stirner is an anarchist, yes, but he would object both to a redistribution of property in the name of social justice and to the censorship leftists love so much. There is precious little leftist about Stirner. He reads like Ragnar Redbeard on less cocaine.

>>88369

>current year

>vagina people

All you gotta do now is learn that they're all not worth anything.

>>90196

Facism is extremely cucked, marxists sort of, not that i care since i'm >>90217

>>90208

>Could you please explain

The dark ages were not that dark and the muslim golden age was not that shiny

>dude was it fuckin' depressing

Really? it doesn't seem to me that way to far, Dostoyesvky seems to push his politics too much with it though

>>90039

I also seem to metabolize it poorly, and I seem to be in particular allergic to coffee, at least certain brands. I do see a very clear improvement to willpower and memory though, so I pretty much use it as a last resort to keep myself awake or finish a difficult project.

>>90245

>2015+1

>Still acting like /r9k/

>>90453

>Marxism

>Not fully cucked

>>90508

Cucked, but not completely, the point of communism is to reach a stateless, classless society, by ironically doing the opposite