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I wanted to see which courses on edX I’ve enrolled in in the past, and maybe resume one of them or enroll in a new one. I had a dozen of courses in my waiting list. Yeah I am still a fucking lazy ass . But maybe a course made by a reputable university could help me in some way. I tried the first one. Not that interesting. Then I tried a second one. Sounded too theoretical. I was skeptic the whole time. I could not withstand learning from an instructor who has no success track of records except his academic title. It’s like a filter I have in my brain. I am not making any prejudices. I simply tried some non-technical courses from edX and the like and was not satisfied with the results. Or maybe my psychological filter got thick and allowed only hardcore stuff to circulate through; stuff from hardcore guys like David Goggins . Here I am watching a recent Goggins clip and confirming for the N th time, that this guy is a good example I could learn from.

“ You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes .” –The Matrix Morpheus said it right. I was carrying on with my life in a mediocre way, and resetting the emotional counter every night. I was taking the blue pill every night before sleep. I thought I was a patient guy. My patience did not last more than a couple of years, until my health got damaged . The blue pill is where everything “should” be fine. Your family, your job, your health. That is at least what it looks like on the surface. The red pill is where you say “fuck this shit. I won’t accept this situation anymore”. blue pill red pill I have from time to time swollen the red pill. I’ve done it on my birthday last year, where I decided to stop believing in personal development . And start doing some real shit instead. It was not easy at all. It ...

I have been on Keto since more than one year now. I enjoyed some benefits if I compared my physical and mental health to the pre-Keto lifestyle. But my wife is telling me that I “looked” less healthy than before. It is not about being in shape or overweight. True I am not overweight anymore. It’s that my face looks tired and gives the impression of malnutrition. Besides that, I am feeling not that great anymore; when I eat my meals off the normal schedules, I feel low on energy. Also when I have some additional physical strain, the effect persists until the next day! I thought I was having a healthy nutrition plan since I switched to keto. But being conscious of my body, I think I need some tweaks. Considering the Mediterranean diet My mother is well versed in the nutrition topics, although she has no formal nutrition study background. She constantly recommends me the Mediterranean diet, with the premise that I get everything my body would need: fiber, minerals, vitami...

I got stomachache since a couple of days. I don’t know what the cause is. Today I decided to go to the doctor. I took an appointment and Alhamdulillah I got one on the afternoon. I interrupted my work and went to the doctor’s office. I described what I was feeling to the doctor on a regular basis, especially the stomachache that is now following me since months. After carefully listening and asking some oriented questions, she told me I had Reizdarmsyndrom, or in English the Irritable Bowel Syndrom IBS . From what I described to her, she added that this situation is a result of another problem I was experiencing recently, the Boreout Syndrom . Although I consider myself to be a sports guy, I think the lack of complexity of the daily job activities is what accelerated the appearance of the Boreout syndrom. In fact, I rarely feel challenged at work since months. The doctor recommended me some probiotics to test for a month, recommended me some rest and optionally to attend psy...

Have you ever got interviewed and asked silly questions? If so, you are not alone. I get them pretty consistently especially in screening conversations and it pisses me off. How (I think) headhunters operate Many of the headhunters out there are junior employees who are either recently recruited or are training to become “regular” headhunters. I easily spot them when they shoot at you with a series of questions in a scripted fashion: What are your areas of expertise? What is your motive of resignation? Why do you want to change your job? They make you feel like you are being interrogated by a police officer. And even, a police officer may hand you a glass of water during interrogations.. After the screening phase, there comes either a more experience headhunter – who will also try to figure out your profile more- or you get redirected to the end customer for a potential interview. The No-Go question In the whole interview process, there is a single question that turns ...

I had early work shift this week. I needed to be 5:45am already at work. My commute time from home to the customer site is around 37 minutes. For three days in a row I woke up at 3:30am and left home at around 4:35am. Back from work I take a power nap of exactly 20mn. I had some drowsiness between 6:30am and 7:15am. Other than that, I was feeling better than on regular days where I sleep between 6,5 and 7 hours. These three days have shown me that a certain lack of sleep is indeed beneficial to my body. I could managed it with less than 6 hours of total sleep time per day. On the days where I exceed the 7 hour sleep mark, I usually hit the snooze button and wake up drowsy. Too much sleep is not healthy and it won’t leave you enough time and energy to work on your daily goals.

Between around 7am and 4pm I did not eat or drink anything. I was busy working, driving from one site to another, lifting stuff, etc. I did not feel hunger, thirst or tiredness. But as soon as I left the office and took the metro, things started to fall down. I could not stand tall in the metro, I needed to lean against a wall, switch feet, try to take a quick nap. Arrived home, I first took a power nap then woke up in sweat. After eating my lunch at around 4:35pm I started feeling weak, had shallow breaths and dragged my body forwards. Those were signs of physical and mental drain, a situation I can confirm by trying to measure how strong my fist is. If my fist is weak, then I’d better sit back and recover. I have a certain level of headache now. Once again I skipped my workout. I had this situation not once in the past, where I struggled during the warm-up phase of Insanity Max 30 sessions. I even got sometimes more breaks during the warm-up that you would think I am just a fat ...