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Visakan Veerasamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the idea of even using, opening up Google Calendar and putting, I'm going to do this work today, this work at this point, whatever. I hated that because I felt like I was always dishonest. And when I put whatever... I would get excited and fill in with lots of stuff, and then I would miss it, and then I feel bad, and then the cycle continues.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the idea of even using, opening up Google Calendar and putting, I'm going to do this work today, this work at this point, whatever. I hated that because I felt like I was always dishonest. And when I put whatever... I would get excited and fill in with lots of stuff, and then I would miss it, and then I feel bad, and then the cycle continues.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the idea of even using, opening up Google Calendar and putting, I'm going to do this work today, this work at this point, whatever. I hated that because I felt like I was always dishonest. And when I put whatever... I would get excited and fill in with lots of stuff, and then I would miss it, and then I feel bad, and then the cycle continues.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And what someone suggested that really worked for me was only schedule the fun stuff, which, again, it sounds immoral. It sounds like, oh, gasp. It violates the puritanical thing, right? What do you mean schedule the fun stuff?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And what someone suggested that really worked for me was only schedule the fun stuff, which, again, it sounds immoral. It sounds like, oh, gasp. It violates the puritanical thing, right? What do you mean schedule the fun stuff?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And what someone suggested that really worked for me was only schedule the fun stuff, which, again, it sounds immoral. It sounds like, oh, gasp. It violates the puritanical thing, right? What do you mean schedule the fun stuff?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But if you say, I'm going to play one hour of video games every evening, you no longer feel this anxious, grabby, I might not get to play tomorrow, so I better play three hours tonight. And then you don't sleep. And then your sleep gets fucked and then everything spirals worse and worse. So if you begin with the premise that To do your best work, you have to be emotionally well.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But if you say, I'm going to play one hour of video games every evening, you no longer feel this anxious, grabby, I might not get to play tomorrow, so I better play three hours tonight. And then you don't sleep. And then your sleep gets fucked and then everything spirals worse and worse. So if you begin with the premise that To do your best work, you have to be emotionally well.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But if you say, I'm going to play one hour of video games every evening, you no longer feel this anxious, grabby, I might not get to play tomorrow, so I better play three hours tonight. And then you don't sleep. And then your sleep gets fucked and then everything spirals worse and worse. So if you begin with the premise that To do your best work, you have to be emotionally well.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Morale has to be good. Again, which people don't want to admit until it gets so bad that it's horrific. And then they don't even get to enjoy. Then the only rest they get is that they fall sick. And then it's like, what kind of leisure or recreation is that? You're just lying in bed. You don't get to go and see things. You don't get to hang out with your friends. So you schedule the good stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Morale has to be good. Again, which people don't want to admit until it gets so bad that it's horrific. And then they don't even get to enjoy. Then the only rest they get is that they fall sick. And then it's like, what kind of leisure or recreation is that? You're just lying in bed. You don't get to go and see things. You don't get to hang out with your friends. So you schedule the good stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Morale has to be good. Again, which people don't want to admit until it gets so bad that it's horrific. And then they don't even get to enjoy. Then the only rest they get is that they fall sick. And then it's like, what kind of leisure or recreation is that? You're just lying in bed. You don't get to go and see things. You don't get to hang out with your friends. So you schedule the good stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And then... you will get, you know, like nobody wants to be on a beach vacation for like years. You know, like people feel like, oh, I would like to sit at the beach for a year. No, you wouldn't. Like three weeks, maybe two or three months is about as long as anyone would really enjoy a beach vacation. Most people, I guess. Before you start to go, ah, you know, what am I doing?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And then... you will get, you know, like nobody wants to be on a beach vacation for like years. You know, like people feel like, oh, I would like to sit at the beach for a year. No, you wouldn't. Like three weeks, maybe two or three months is about as long as anyone would really enjoy a beach vacation. Most people, I guess. Before you start to go, ah, you know, what am I doing?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And then... you will get, you know, like nobody wants to be on a beach vacation for like years. You know, like people feel like, oh, I would like to sit at the beach for a year. No, you wouldn't. Like three weeks, maybe two or three months is about as long as anyone would really enjoy a beach vacation. Most people, I guess. Before you start to go, ah, you know, what am I doing?

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Same for like, you know, there's only like, if you were tasked with eating as much chocolate cake as you could, you'd probably eat I don't know, somewhere between half a cake to one cake or something, whatever your number is. But you would eat... So the people who, when tasked to have pleasure, they tend to contain it reasonably.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Same for like, you know, there's only like, if you were tasked with eating as much chocolate cake as you could, you'd probably eat I don't know, somewhere between half a cake to one cake or something, whatever your number is. But you would eat... So the people who, when tasked to have pleasure, they tend to contain it reasonably.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

Same for like, you know, there's only like, if you were tasked with eating as much chocolate cake as you could, you'd probably eat I don't know, somewhere between half a cake to one cake or something, whatever your number is. But you would eat... So the people who, when tasked to have pleasure, they tend to contain it reasonably.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But when they've been suppressed away from pleasure, that's when they eat three cakes. And then they feel horrible and they want to throw up. And then next morning, they're like, I'm never going to eat cakes again. It's yo-yo extremes and it's just chaos. It's just bad. So... You want to dampen that extreme yo-yo stuff. You want to schedule the fun and the pleasure.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

But when they've been suppressed away from pleasure, that's when they eat three cakes. And then they feel horrible and they want to throw up. And then next morning, they're like, I'm never going to eat cakes again. It's yo-yo extremes and it's just chaos. It's just bad. So... You want to dampen that extreme yo-yo stuff. You want to schedule the fun and the pleasure.