My Fawlty Wiring

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Rethinking how to achieve your ambitions

‍We believe that MS isn’t about giving up on your ambitions. Just rethinking how to achieve them.

- Shift MS

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her exquisite reckoning with the life of the mind, would be to “lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will.

I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an invisible tune, intoned in the distance by a mysterious player.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely from the imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

- Albert Einstein

“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”

- Albert Einstein

Monday, March 6, 2023

Mindfulnress and the Monkey Mind

The “monkey mind” originates in Chinese folklore and describes that restless state of chaotic thoughts and emotions.

Neuroscience has traced monkey mind to the brain regions known as the default mode network (DMN).

Buddhist mindfulness has been shown to calm the DMN and reduce stress.

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Mindfulness Techniques

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Keys To Mental Health

1. Make social connections a priority.

2. Staying active is good for the brain.

3. Keep stress levels in check.

4. EAT A BRAIN-HEALTHY DIET.

5. Don't skimp on sleep.

6. Find Purpose and Meaning in Life.

Friday, February 17, 2023

Viktor Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart:

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Viktor Frankl

Monday, February 13, 2023

The Value of Pacing

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow".

- Mary Anne Rademacher

“Day is over, night has come. Today is gone, what’s done is done. Embrace your dreams, through the night. Tomorrow comes with a whole new light.”

- George Orwell

Cognitive challenges, like M.S. Fog, require strategies to deal with the daily difficulties caused by this condition.

Realize the value of pacing—carefully sensing and managing your energy levels to avoid crashes.

The desperation to return to normal can be dangerous, especially when combined with cultural norms around pressing on through challenges and post-exertional malaise—severe crashes in which all symptoms worsen after even minor physical or mental exertion. People try to push themselves back to work and instead “push themselves into a crash”.

Because mental exertion is physical exertion, carefully ration mental exercise like reading or brain-training games.

If you feel low from lack of sleep, stress or being overactive, force yourself to rest—cognitively as well as physically.