Visited the Greenwich Observatory and prime Meridian in the middle of reading Longitude, so that was kinda cool.

Yep, this is the ‘discipline’ side of it. You do it because it’s what you do. You experienced the fact that ‘motivation’ is fleeting and your brains always going to try to move you toward something easier.

Make yourself laugh. Physically laugh. Even if it’s not funny. Laugh.

Get some exercise.

And give it time. You’ll get over it. ‘Moping’ is just activity driven by chemicals jn the brain… your brain should eventually get back to equilibrium. This is the essence of ‘this too shall pass’ … both your highest moments, and your lowest, can only last so long.

Eh, there’s often a ‘to what purpose’ component to that objective truth bit. Some fights aren’t worth fighting, and there is plenty of benefit in harmless delusion for many a hard life. Any attempt to bring objective truth in some instances is inherently unkind. It’s when those delusions begin to have an negative impact that the conversation can start.

lol you get half a point more than me. Without looking it up, I don’t know what a Hoover book is either.

(Most recently read Remains of the Day, the creative act, some wheel of time, Fairy Tale, and started a Bertrand Russell book that’ll take me a month to read… It’s not like I don’t read but I feel like I have to defend myself at this point lol)

First reply: I don’t know what this book is.

Good job :)

Do or do not, there is no try. Literally: do something. Anything. Right now. Stand up and do two air squats. Don’t let the fear of not knowing the perfect answer get in the way of starting something right now.

Workout:

Exercise 1: wall press. Stand in front of a wall. Put hands on wall just below shoulder length. Bend your elbows (not at your waist) and let yourself get closer to the wall. Push back to standing. Do this ten times, rest for two minutes, and do it again but the second time do it until you can’t do any more.

Exercise 2: Air squat. Stand in front of a normal dining room chair. Sit down in the chair. Without using your hands. Stand up from the chair. Do this ten times. If you can’t do ten, do as many as you can. Rest standing up for two minutes. Do a second ‘set’ of these but instead of ten, do as many as you can consecutively (up to say 30).

Congratulations, you’ve done your first structured workout in a long time.