I loved watching the Matrix the movie and the sequels obviously. I thought who would want to live in the matrix? These days considering how much time I spend in my head versus in reality and I’m like isn’t that in a sense living in the matrix. I’m like in many ways we do choose to live in matrix or at least I feel I do. I think if it was offered to spend a lot of time in the matrix like a real kind of a life like computer simulation you know not in our brain it might actually be not so terrible, or at least I feel it is understandable. Especially considering how much time I spend in my head. Who knows it might be better than spending all our time in our head.

I really want to be more present in life and get out of my head. I do find it funny because I want to create a comic that people get completely engrossed in and can’t put it down. I almost want to put people into the matrix, just a matrix I’m creating. Don’t most of us want to create something that just grabs people, something they can’t put down and makes them think.

Anyway, to me it’s just interesting this desire to be present and at the same time wanting to create stuff that in some sense makes people not present – forces them think. The irony of it all.

A mindful person is simply one who is actually here and now. They live their actual lives, not the one that exists solely in their heads. As a result, anxiety and stress are not commonplace.

Holden, Lee. Ready, Set, Slow: How to Improve Your Energy, Health, and Relationships Through the Power of Slow (p. 37). (Function). Kindle Edition

Below is an excerpt from an audiobook.

If you’re not getting your research published regularly in journals – preferably ‘high-impact’ journals like Nature and Science – then you’re not going to get that professorial position at a redbrick university. This wouldn’t matter, so long as journals published every study that was submitted to them, regardless of whether or not they found whatever they were looking for. But, of course, they don’t. Science journals – not all science journals, but most, including most of the big names – publish results that are interesting and novel. That might not sound too terrible, but it means that a study which finds something interesting – ‘psychic powers are real’, for instance – is more likely to be published than a study which finds something more boring, like ‘we looked for evidence for psychic powers and didn’t find any’.

Chivers, Tom. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World (pp. 91-92). (Function). Kindle Edition.

As an academic it is sad, though I often don’t trust what I read. Recently from personal experience I’m questioning how much protein we really need. I shifted my focus from protein to more a plant based diet. Cut back on beef and processed food. For myself, just myself my numbers in terms of blood sugar and cholesterol improved. When I was a kid it was eat your fruits and vegetables or at least or pressure to eat more veggies. Nowadays everywhere I go someone somewhere is selling protein and it’s like the cure all. Yet if everyone is so protein deficient now yet in the past when there weren’t all these protein supplements how did we even survive? OK, a little sarcastic and you get the point.

I’ve more than one friend mentioning issues with fruits and veggies today – yet they happily eat cake and ice cream and think nothing of it. Million thoughts there – though no reason to talk about the issues with cake and ice cream – not interesting. What goes viral as well just isn’t always the most helpful. Spreading fear around fruits and veggies… If anything aren’t processed foods in part made from fruits and vegetables? Are processed foods made from only the best no pesticide healthiest fruits and veggies on the planet or the cheapest? Not to mention the artificial ingredients…

Thus the additional point not only what gets published but also what goes viral we need to be careful of and take it with a grain of salt.

Feedback for Arthur:

• Adding some thickness and volume
• Think bigger trapezoid/ square-like shape for the palm

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