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RiKD   United States. Sep 12 2021 04:14. Posts 7822 | | |
Some History:
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I remember there was a poker game in the hall of my dorm that ran every night. I didn't give two shits. My goal was to go to Korea to play Warcraft III or at least win my state's qualifying tournament. Well, I didn't do either but then when that year's WCG rolled around I found out that Tillerman was not playing because he was playing poker *Metal Gear Solid ! ! !* My interest was piqued. I noodle around on the internet and find out that Elky and Rek seem to be doing well. So, now I am in some apartments and we have a big game going all the time. I am still terrible at this point but I am a sponge. One of the better players in the game asks me to sweat him. I am watching him play 400 NL on PokerStars and he is winning some hands and losing some hands. I just had an epiphany that this guy is good relative to us scrubs but he is probably terrible. From that day on I stop playing in the live game and put $150 into PokerStars and grinded that up.
This seems like I was entirely driven by money or at least that money was totally intertwined with the intellectual curiosity of learning the game. I never thought about it though in the beginning I just did it.
Fast forward to today.
A friend suggests I read The Almanac of Naval.
why?
It's a good book on getting rich.
ok.
I devour the thing.
Naval claims everything he does is due to intellectual curiosity. I think he is a bit deluded but can not get this idea out of my mind that I have to follow my intellectual curiosity. I am curious in coding but I don't think I would be if Naval didn't say it was the best form of leverage on the planet.
Poker allowed for more intellectual curiosity because for most of my career I had a lot of buy-ins and plenty of cash in a savings account and relatively low expenses besides airfare or if I was in Vegas. I would always wish I could play 100,000 hands in a month but never got close. Fucking leatherass and redargoe were making $1 million in a year back then.
I was thinking that I was actually an artisan back at the hippy grocery store until Amazon turned it into a pizza factory. There is a lot to be learned about pizzas but that was a shit job which did not even support a good life.
Ludic intellectual curiosity is buying literature by someone you've never heard of and devouring the book with a tingling spine throughout. It's getting lost in the woods. It's locating a wave to surf and then surfing it good or bad. It's not reading that 3rd book on persuasion, or finance, or whatever.
I feel like I will be shit at anything I am not interested in. I guess it's best to be in pure ludic mode or the grind is entangled with curiosity and you don't care. I have found the more curious I am the more money I tend to make but the more money I make doesn't necessarily make me more curious.
I am generally lost in how to spend my time and what to do in order to not starve. Even though I am currently overfed and I realize 1 hr. exercise and reading is probably always good.
What are your experiences with ludic play, intellectual curiosity, and THE GRIND?
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RiKD   United States. Sep 12 2021 04:22. Posts 7822 | | |
I may have written too much
I am like mad with this monkey on my back
leisure, jobs, not starving
the relationship of ludic play, intellectual curiosity, and THE GRIND to make money so you can get blowjobs |
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RiKD   United States. Sep 12 2021 04:23. Posts 7822 | | |
Getting blowjobs is higher level than just not starving and shitting on concrete |
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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 12 2021 04:31. Posts 2204 | | |
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Oddeye   Canada. Sep 12 2021 05:18. Posts 5086 | | |
| On September 12 2021 03:23 RiKD wrote:
Getting blowjobs is higher level than just not starving and shitting on concrete |
Lol^
One thing that always kept my curiosity going is science, especially physic and space. There is just so much to learn and I love visualizing it. |
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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 12 2021 14:50. Posts 5139 | | |
intellectual curiosity is basically the exact opposite of watching ted talks. If you're interested in learning something, you devote at least a few years to it. If you aren't, you watch a 20min talk and learn absolutely nothing. That's my 2 cents. |
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RiKD   United States. Sep 13 2021 00:42. Posts 7822 | | |
I don't even know what this thread is but Stroggoz nailed it
but are you learning for a few years because of curiosity or because it is worth it to learn or both?
It's not quite a feedback loop... I am making this more complicated than I have to...
TedTalks lol |
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RiKD   United States. Sep 13 2021 03:06. Posts 7822 | | |
I asked my mom who has a graduate degree in English what she thinks about the word intellectual curiosity.
She said she thought about someone studying whales, or migrating butterflies, or a certain painter.
Not necessarily the cleanest definition but I get where she is going. |
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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 13 2021 03:34. Posts 34161 | | |
| On September 12 2021 13:50 Stroggoz wrote:
intellectual curiosity is basically the exact opposite of watching ted talks. If you're interested in learning something, you devote at least a few years to it. If you aren't, you watch a 20min talk and learn absolutely nothing. That's my 2 cents. |
I disagree its not either you become an expert on the field or nothing, Ted talks is not the opposite of intellectual curiosity, it may be its lowest form, but a form of it. |
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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 13 2021 10:09. Posts 9634 | | |
| On September 12 2021 13:50 Stroggoz wrote:
intellectual curiosity is basically the exact opposite of watching ted talks. If you're interested in learning something, you devote at least a few years to it. If you aren't, you watch a 20min talk and learn absolutely nothing. That's my 2 cents. |
TED talks have acted as a good way for me to find out about stuff I didn't know before that I ended up reading a bunch about (e.g. Sleep, CRISPR, Different divisions of psychology, breathing methods). So I guess good for discovery? Doubt anyone believes they have strong grasp of a topic after watching a few TED talks, |
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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 13 2021 13:27. Posts 5139 | | |
I was trying to make a dig at Ted Talks because i vehemently dislike that whole culture tbh, haha. |
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RiKD   United States. Sep 13 2021 14:59. Posts 7822 | | |
I have 2 smart watches, heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor, a cpap machine without doctor's orders and 3 sleep apps. I watch 1 Ted Talk every night before I go to sleep and then wind down with a Tim Ferris podcast and jerking off to SENS material and the thought of living past 100. |
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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 14 2021 02:08. Posts 34161 | | |
| On September 13 2021 13:59 RiKD wrote:
I have 2 smart watches, heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor, a cpap machine without doctor's orders and 3 sleep apps. I watch 1 Ted Talk every night before I go to sleep and then wind down with a Tim Ferris podcast and jerking off to SENS material and the thought of living past 100. |
lol wtf |
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