Always question everything

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Have you noticed what a filthy world we live in? I am serious, and I do not expose myself to the blows of smiling, all loving, positive-minded people with an open mind and a desire to devote myself to everyone around to the last drop of life juices. I mean that we, with downcast eyes and chewing the food and mental gum given to us, are used to taking everything for granted. But the greater the informational conductivity of the world and the opportunity to look around, the more disgusting in our souls from who we have become. And you can continue to chew gum in the new world, or you can start living by taking the best for yourself.

Often in articles on Lifehacker we look for hot topics, study factual matter and write articles, sometimes we translate other people's thoughts, because we realize that we do not live in the center of the world, we have not the most reading nation for a long time, our universities generate slag and lumpen, and any clever student skids as much as possible in the direction of the Valley, Zern, Oxoford, Singapore or any other similar place, where he will not be lonely from realizing that everything is not so.

Have you ever wondered why simple, often primitive, Kickstarter projects make so much noise? Why does the film take an Oscar for mere pennies, and the "great film about the great war" gathers only a full hall of invisible people? Why is no one interested in the new TIMEX watch, and why Pebble makes bloggers write about it over and over again? Why does everyone want the Nest thermostat, although free thermostats are already available in private homes? Why are we surrounded by people who are unhealthy in body and mind, who know for sure that they are doing everything right and produce new people who know how, but do not know why exactly?

There is only one reason - doubt. Some doubt, others do not. Please note that the most successful projects - both in the physical and virtual world - are the fruit of the doubt of one person who developed the idea and found like-minded people. One questioned the need for athletes to carry a belt with a cardio sensor on their chest as before. Another is that modern thermostats do not fulfill the increased needs for a long time and a new one is needed. The third is that the universe is expanding, but not static in any way as the masses believed.

Look at all the branches of life around you. I will only touch on what worries me today, and you can think of what is interesting to you and share in the comments if you want.

Food

Take a look in the refrigerator - anything that has colorful packaging is not eaten correctly. Sausage is not made of meat for a long time, and boiled sausage will in reality be gray and even brown, if not for the dyes. To get drunk, only pure water is enough - you don't need juices with sugar, fizzy drinks with a giant sugar content. You don't need coffee and tea to wake up in the morning. Just do a jog or warm-up, endorphins will tear you apart and you rush to work. Drink coffee and tea only understanding why you like them, understand their tastes and then they will make sense. Look at dairy products - milk often does not curdle and rots, cottage cheese is generally immortal, cheese is just a mass of fat, dyes, thickeners, emulsifiers and other rubbish, yogurt … does anyone even understand what yogurt is today? And why is “0% fat” boldly written on “fitness yogurt”, but not a word about the fact that 20% sugar is mixed right there and then? What kind of fitness is this, eh? And when you are told that milk is a valuable source of calcium, then ask yourself "where does a cow that chews corn and gives 30 liters of milk a day to a sucking machine with tubes with so much calcium 24/7/365 ?!" When they tell you that meat is a valuable source of protein, then take an interest in the protein content in beans, avocados and compare with the meat of a dairy cow (choose the meat of the right cows!) forgotten and you do not understand why you believe in them at all.

Force yourself to think.

Alcohol

There are several default ready-made models of why we drink alcohol and, asking ourselves, the answers will be as follows:

• he helps me to relax after work
• it's just very tasty
• I like the subculture of wine / whiskey / beer / …
• it is easier to relax in a company / club

Take an interest in the nature of sleep - alcohol dehydrates you, makes your sleep interrupted and inadequate, it gives you headaches and a bunch of other byaki. In the club, you are really liberated (for the unique ability to liberate yourself under alcohol, there are legends about our brother in the world), but why do you need to put yourself in the environment of those people with whom you are not comfortable - question the quality of your environment, change it if, in addition to “blue you haven't done anything with them for a long time. Whiskey connoisseurs, wine connoisseurs - they dig the topic extremely deeply and it is very interesting with them, but sooner or later they will admit to you that they have become part of the marketing machine of the alcohol manufacturer and all the magic is not so much magic. It's delicious, it's interesting, but only one tea is so much more varied than all these bottles that you won't have enough life to taste everything. Why don't you comprehend the variety of kung fu if you are hungry for knowledge? There to comprehend and comprehend. Understand why you drink alcohol and then drink - there is nothing wrong with drinking in moderation.

Startups

As I wrote above, projects based on doubt are the most interesting. Take a kettle - it's not comfortable and really slows down. The computer is warming up. The phone runs out of battery quickly. The rag does not clean the floor well. Ticks live in carpets. Heating the house is too energy intensive. The road to work is a burning life. Work is not loved (not everyone:). The water cooler gurgles too much. Fingers hurt from the pen, and writing by hand on tablets is the lot of perverts and for some reason paper still rules. The browser does not understand the voice well. The car eats too much gas. Sex has become a commodity, although it should only be pure pleasure. Meetings are stressful, etc. etc.

Take on any of the problems listed and solve it. Spend years on it and you will not only make the world a better place, you will become indescribably rich. Only by correcting the crack in the universe. But first you need to understand where this crack is.

Sport

One day I was listening to a podcast about the triathlon techniques I am currently doing. One participant said that he takes 20 hours a week - running half marathons and marathons every day, cycling hundreds of kilometers. The other runs one marathon a week and bike an hour a week. But the second is doing interval training and hill running - he packs the first's hours into minutes and much acts more effectively. He doubted the accepted system of training simply by digging into the topic and correcting rotten dogmas.

Everywhere I look in sports, there are the same dogmas. So it is right to run, but it is not. IRONMAN champions do not care about all this - they run in very different ways and win without knowing what is right and what is not:

Go to the pool and they will tell you that you need to be a broad-shouldered flounder in order to swim normally - more effort, more strikes, higher speed, thresh-thresh-thresh. But look at the Total Immersion technique (read the book "Deep Dive") and you will understand that there is no place for imprints here either. I began to swim almost twice as fast just by trying to change my technique - I didn’t swing the cans, I didn’t beat the pool.

And so in everything.

Outcome

Stop looking for idols, role models. Stop believing in what grandmothers and mothers believed and people close to death believe very much. Do not go to church on Sundays if you do not understand why you personally, not your children, not your believing wife, but only you. Spit on a society that condemns you - the world is big and there are many good places where you will be welcome. Do not accept the models imposed at school if you do not understand their essence. Do not accept anything that you do not understand, that you have not seen and are able to study. Look for what annoys you, that pisses you off on a daily basis, but you get used to it and put up with it, and start changing. Look for like-minded people and ask questions. Do not say that meat is for protein, milk is for calcium, holes in the roads - because the climate is like that, thieves are around - because the country is not the same, vacation is when two months a year, and salary is when there is enough for loans and the apartment is in debt for 30 years.