I'm Victor. This is my personal note log, written as if I'm talking to someone else. Thanks for visiting!...
After I started this writing practice, I quickly noticed that I started feeling the need to take benefit out of the insights I was having. This bought me the karma of feeling the need to share anything I learned. I started seeing potential posts everywhere I looked inside my own head. I stopped being a river and instead I become a clogged pipe that needs to occasionally remove these clogs to keep…
I’ve noticed that knowledge quickly gets stale. This is why I’ve never been successful in creating written knowledge bases, as they’re always either outdated or slightly inaccurate. I strive to avoid spreading misinformation and hope to produce something useful for others, but as much as I wish I wasn't, I’m human. Up until now, I’ve been collecting my own writing to share with others someday.…
And that's the problem. It's because it feels good that it doesn't arrive from a logical place. So you do things you don't intend to because decompressing yourself by hating feels good. It's kind of like any other practice that, on a gut-level, we know is bad but do regardless—like eating fast food.
Allowing for "one more chapter, bite, etc." is essentially training the decay of self-imposed boundaries. Every time you do that, you are teaching yourself that the limits you've imposed can be broken, leading to cycles that build unintended momentum in directions you shouldn't go. Sadly, you will then need even more willpower to get back on track. Thinking back to what varies and what stays ,…
I wanted to have both pasta and pie, so I mixed them together. As a result, I ended up with neither. Once again, life teaches me that living requires letting go of good things. It's impossible to live without compromising on something, even if sometimes it can feel like it.
Don't stop yourself from reaching good, because it can't be exceptional. Let yourself go from 0 to 2. We live in the world we live, not the world we think it should be. If you can't do the 10, do the number you are most likely to do. You can't become another person overnight; you are stuck with your circumstances and you are only entitled to your actions.
If there's any aspect of my mind, life, or world that I want to clarify my ideas about, I log it and write about it later. It's like having a scheduled appointment to talk about what you think is important, and I can't stress enough how transformative this has been in my life. People say that what receives attention gets managed, and this setup directs me towards giving attention to things that…
I was set on a sandwich for dinner and totally fine with it. Then I heard there was pizza -- not mine, but available if I wanted it. Suddenly, I was torn. It’s wild how fast a perfectly good plan feels like a compromise the moment another option exists.
I was recently recommended a YouTube video about 'how to live a cool life like x videogame character'. It offered several tips, primarily habit stacking—organizing actions so one positive habit triggers the next, mimicking in-game mechanics. Initially, I found the video naive; the advice felt obvious. Because I already understand habit stacking, it felt like content intended for a younger version…
A change I have made in my life - and one that has saved me a from a lot of stress and anxiety - is archiving clutter rather than attempting to organize it. If you are overwhelmed by information hoarding, such as having too many files or photos to manage, simply stash them all away and live as if they do not exist. In digital environments, the affordances of an organized space can be artificially…