End of 2025 Q1- Daily Blog #6
4:41AM-4:52AM: #9 mins
Home-Branford
Aim: 9 minutes
3/20/25
March
Thursday
500words
[[Power of Learning]]
[[Power of Recalling]]
[[Power of Associations]]
[[Limited Capacity for Remembering]]
[[Love of Interactive Thoughts]]
I’ve read some amazing books this quarter, and I am super proud of them. And I will continue this journey, and do the best I can. Some of these books are genuinely so awesome, I love them thoroughly, and it gives me great strength, that I can recall them. And reading [[The Origin of Consciousness]], by [[Julian Janes]] was very cool. He’s genuinely such a deep thinker, and I learned a lot from him, and I will continue to see what else he helped contribute to modern neuroscience. He did write this in the 1970’s and I’m sure he influenced a lot of contemporary psychologists and scientists. So it’s kind of cool, and I look forward to learning more, as I continue my journey, and I want to organize a little bit, and see if I can get a concise understanding of a lot of these things.
And the other book, that is related, is [[The Ego is the Enemy]], by [[Ryan Holiday]], that was also really cool, and I have fondness for Ryan Holiday now, which is super cool. And I have read a bunch of more books, that I am thinking about, that I didn’t really think I have to think about. The [[Sam Harris]] book, on his [[Moral Philosophy]], specifically, [[The Moral Landscape]], that was also interesting, but I do fight, because we, at the end of the day, are at an opposite spectrum, in the case of where we come from. And I remember another book, by [[David Engleman]], called[[LiveWired]], and that was also really cool.
And I am forgetting [[Robert Sapolsky]], and his book, [[Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers]], a book that pretty defines the pitfall of stress. But I genuinely think there was even a cooler author, that I just zipped through, and that was really cool as well. But pretty much, the Ego one was important, especially Ryan Holiday, and his understanding of historic philosophers, and this ties back to [[Marcus Aurelius]], and his understanding, in his book [[Meditations]], but still it’s interesting to see how all these different things relate. And I’ll look back later, and it’s really cool to see how all these thoughts patterns link together.
And it’s genuinely such a cool phenomenon, and I have learned a lot from these people, and I will keep doing what I can. Because I genuinely love learning from these guys, and I’ll look back, and of course, there are some people that I didn’t really like too much, but overall, there are some authors that I genuinely clicked with a lot. And the neuroscience of it all, it’s spectacularly amazing. And although Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, I definitely think David Engleman was a better neuroscientist, and I cannot say if Sam Harris is even a neuroscientist, more like a consciousness and morality neuroscientist or something. Still, I will remember again, as I read more, and I have faith that more things will be explained.