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TK PN: NSD makes you more creative

finish this today August 9th, 2021

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Or I should say: NSD makes you more receptive to creative thoughts because it creates a window for serendipity to occur.

Creativity seems to be a thing most people are struggling with. It's often thought of as something only geniuses are capable of,

NSD is about removing all sources of short-term pleasure activities like sugar, social media, video games, binge-watching Netflix, porn, etc., – i.e., the bad things.

If you remove the bad things, which are to your mind what empty calories are to your gut, you can finally have exciting and original thoughts and insights. Why? Because space previously filled with mindless short-term pleasure activities is now being supplied with your imagination.

Your imagination will “produce” insights based on the “food” you supply your mind with. And what’s best is that you have 100% of control of what goes into your brain. Depending on what you feed your mind, it will churn out ideas that combine the material you’re consciously consuming.

And that’s fucking incredible! You literally have an ideas generation machine that works 24/7. Your only job is to nurture it—eat healthy, i.e., feed it with different ideas—and wait for the serendipitous insights to come.

What’s sad about this, however, is that most people are not even aware of this creative power because they’re blinded by these colorful and sparky short-term pleasure things like porn, social media, video games, and Netflix.

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R: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

This is also an argument to "ship first, iterate later" because it speaks to implementing and being open to opportunities presenting themselves.

Design your personal life and your professional team work so that serendipity can easily occur. Maximize different inputs—not only ideas but also places experiences trips places etc.
- The best way to maximize it is to do as much stuff as possible. Doing, implementing, bringing the metaphysical into the physical will produce the most serendipity.
  - Also here it's important to be receptive to that serendipity. And one of the best ways for that is NSD TK PN: NSD makes you more creative
  - Writing is an intermediate form of bringing the metaphysical into the physical.
This is also why you should try, ship, and implement frequently—you don't know what awaits you in the gap between your idea and reality.
By bringing the metaphysical into the physical you are uncovering the gap between the idea and reality—and this is where the gold (learnings, new ideas, etc.) lies.

P: How to thrive in a Black Swan dominated world

This is also an argument to "ship first, iterate later" because it speaks to implementing and being open to opportunities presenting themselves.

Design your personal life and your professional team work so that serendipity can easily occur. Maximize different inputs—not only ideas but also places experiences trips places etc.
- The best way to maximize it is to do as much stuff as possible. Doing, implementing, bringing the metaphysical into the physical will produce the most serendipity.
  - Also here it's important to be receptive to that serendipity. And one of the best ways for that is NSD TK PN: NSD makes you more creative
  - Writing is an intermediate form of bringing the metaphysical into the physical.
This is also why you should try, ship, and implement frequently—you don't know what awaits you in the gap between your idea and reality.
By bringing the metaphysical into the physical you are uncovering the gap between the idea and reality—and this is where the gold (learnings, new ideas, etc.) lies.

R: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

Also here it's important to be receptive to that serendipity. And one of the best ways for that is NSD TK PN: NSD makes you more creative

TK PN: NSD makes you more creative