Tricky Old Dog

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Now, gotta fix other, easier to manage portions of my life.

The video showing the paint I pirated. Art & Qualm II

A kid says to a pirate, "Hey, Mister Pirate, why do you have a wooden leg?"
The pirate says, "OH, I was made to walk the plank, and a shark got me leg before I could get to land."
"Wow!" the kid says. "Hey, how did you get that hook for a hand?"
"Well," says the pirate, "We were boarding a Limey ship, and one of the sailors took my hand with his sword. Before he lost his life to my cutlass."
"Wow. Mr. Pirate, why do you have a patch on your eye?"
"Oh. That." says the pirate. "That was the first day with my new hook."

Concerning the Box Breathing, I had it backwards: I thought a constricted heart pumped less vigorously, causing the brain to speed it up. Actually, blood flows through EASIER, causing the brain to slow it down. I told you not to listen to me.
Breathe in for 8, hold for 8, breathe out for 4, hold for 4 for energy.
Breathe in for 4, hold 4, out 8, hold 8 for relaxation.
Andrew Huberman explains at the end of this video- about the last minute.
Here, he explains it in terms of alertness and calm.
Not a box, really- a parallelogram. There is box breathing, but that's just 4,4,4,4.

I guess I didn't really get to what had become a major point during this: the contradiction is, I'm still stressing as much while in the middle of the process I'm undertaking at the time, I don't stress (as much, anymore) while considering what I should be doing with my time, and why I'm not doing that (yet), or how to fix it (the not doing it yet), or how much exertion it will require, or what will it be like if I try and fail.
Here's a YouTube search for Art & Fear. It was, for me, very enlightening.

Mulling over my endeavors on these podcasts.
Here's what I'm doing to maintain a semblance of discipline. Mel Robbins Make It Happen- Here's to sign up.
Here are the videos.
Here's my project- Art and Qualm
Art & Qualm II
Art & Qualm III
Art & Qualm IV
Art & Qualm V

Here are 2 videos of my new project, from the beginning: Art and Qualm
Art & Qualm II

"Why we struggle with change"
An interesting video on change. Even if you don't appreciate the narration, the Art is noteworthy.

Another thing about Wynwood - there's music almost everywhere, and traffic noise. LOUD cars, real common in Miami, motorcycles, party buses... hard to find a good spot to be heard.

The first video I saw concerning this: Huberman Smeared.
I realize how slow I talk. I'd speed this up 1.25 or 1.5 if I could- I'll see about importing this into some audio editor, I have to look it up.
Just thought I'd address this as I what this sounds like to listen to, but strangely, and I record and mentally prod myself to speak faster, it sounds faster to me as I speak, than when I listen.
I sound stupid and/or drunk, and I'm neither.
Also, I knew this but forgot it- it can be speeded up on Buzzsprout, right at the bottom of the Episode frame, hover and a button 1x appears. For those that are as slow as me.
Thank you for reading.

This is the video about the Hindu philosophy I discussed... it reminds me of the ancient Greek philosopher, "You can't stand in the same river twice." HealthyGamerGG
I suggest at least trying all this guys stuff- Andrew Huberman