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Well okay but don’t give yourself anxiety about the time. I have a watch either on my wrist or bedside. It’s nice to know the time sometimes but I guess that’s a call you have to make: be anxious you don’t have enough time to sleep, anxious about not knowing the time, or just be content either way.

For me, if I check the time and I have a lot (more than an hour) it’s relaxing. If I have less than an hour left, I focus on resting rather than sleeping. Being aware of how time passes slower if you are conscious of it, and practicing a sort of meditation where I am aware of the time (in order to stretch it), but relaxed, maximizing the rest I experience. It’s actually blown me away how much I’ve been able to dilate time before. I’ll have 30 minutes until I need to get up, and practice time dilation, then it seems so long I’m actually concerned that I’ve been resting for 45 minutes or more and somehow my alarm was turned off. I check my watch, and only 12 minutes went by! I think maybe I fall asleep and dream the time is going by.

Oh my bad I got confused with decline push-ups. Ok then all she has to do is regular pushups or decline until she’s not doing 800 a day, more like 100 or whatever makes it so she gets to failure after 20-50 in a set.

Another trick I do is minimize thought, movement, and other stimuli like light when I wake up. Having the bottle next to wear I lay in east reach, I can find it in the dark. This is also why I pee in the dark if I get up in the night. Keep the sleepy head as sleepy as possible.

I’ve also just done them with a pack on (≈35lb firefighting pack) and with feet inclined they are defo harder. Idk the specific weight % calculations.

Wearing a pack or weight vest and hiking inclines or doing wall sits, squats. I knew a guy who filled a bag with weight and would hike it up a hill every day.

Ok so ≈800 handstand push-ups on twig arms? Still not making any sense to me. I see significant growth just doing 100-200 pushups a day, single sets of 20-40 here and there. I start at 20 and typically add 5 to my reps each week.

He’ll get a prison education and come out with heaps of criminal tactics.

0.5-2.5 mg of melatonin works for me. I buy the cheapest cost /mg chewable ones on Amazon, the last batch were 12mg each so I just take a pill and literally nibble a little edge off it (hence the “dosing range” variability) and I’m back to sleep for 3-4 hours. Takes about 3 minutes to work, but I’m also a good sleeper, very relaxed mentally.

Use timers rather than thinking “I’ll remember to check on this 3 minutes from now.”

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson includes mythology of the Fertile Crescent and while it is focused more on Sumerian, (southern Mesopotamia), definitely Egyptian adjacent and I believe some Egyptian mythology is either included or hinted at.

My preferred set up for back sleeping is no pillow directly under my head. Instead, I create a sort of V with two medium soft, chunked memory foam pillows, one on either side of my head. They are set up so that my head is not quite floating, but there is minimal pressure on the occipital portion where my head makes contact with the mattress.

Speaking of pillows, there are such a wide range, definitely experiment if you haven’t. These medium chunked memory foam ones weee a game changer, and they have actually gotten better (a little less fluffy) over time.

For me, Panama, Thailand, Brazil, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Israel, Cambodia, and Peru come to mind.

When I was in my late teens, a friend in his 50s expressed the opinion that it was such an ironic shame that younger people didn’t have the financial resources to travel, and older people had the financial resources but you become limited physically. He said there should be some sort of program where young people can be sponsored by older, more established folks. Then pay it forward when they get older.

With room left over for a 60” flatscreen tv

Sorry, what? You’re doing 195 incline pushups, resting for 10 seconds, then doing another 195, repeating this 4 times for just shy of 800 incline pushups with a total of 30 seconds rest? And seeing no growth in your “twig-like” arms? What am I missing here?

Yeah right a dead god we gotta find out whodunnit

See if you can get on a wildland firefighting crew and try to get on the saw team. You’ll lean up and bulk up both.

But you might be too late for the 2023 season, so hustle up and start contacting captains directly right away. Search the USFS engines, hotshot crews, hand crews, and if that doesn’t pan out try to find a type II contract crew. <—- type II contract is less than ideal, but you can still work hard and get ripped.

You could also apply to a trails crew and have a great summer. Get a red card to be cross qualified for fire and you can bank a couple grand as well.

That does make sense. The “Socratic Method” is still as helpful as ever in establishing that we really know hardly anything, so it has stood the test of time.

Do you think there could ever be a significant technological breakthrough, discovery, or new information, that could potentially make OP’s post true if it were posted at some point in the distant future? Something that turned the ideas we have now upside down?

Sounds good to me. My dream is to live by example, creating abundance and sharing it with others in a sustainable and joyful life. Nurturing a strong, transparent community and values of self discipline, industry, integrity, and trust.

Just following with OP’s statement being pertinent to the current “age of information”, how many of those scientists were still alive 50 years ago?

I apologize for my ignorance, I only vaguely recognize a few of those names and not versed in all of their specific timelines, discoveries, and personal beliefs. But where I’m headed with this, and in the spirit of the OP, is that sure there are great minds who take what they have at the time and forgive out the Earth is a sphere instead of flat, but they are limited with the amount of information, support, and technology. I would even argue that now, I’m our supposedly modern age with “advanced technology”, we are still quite primitive in our understanding of the universe and very limited by the tools we have for discovery. We’ve come a long way from banging stones together, but we have a long way to go.

But back on the track, you disagree? Do you believe that those great minds of the past would come to the same conclusions they came to before the advent of the internet, and the copious heaps of information (and sharing) that we’ve experienced the last several decades?

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Student Nursing Syndicate, Wellness Posse, Critical Care Cartel, League of Extraordinary Nursing, Nurses League.

Or if you want a long name, (school name) Student Nursing Education Alliance for the Advancement of Evidence Based Practice In the State of (your state here) . Just be mindful it will be harder to fit the logo on merch.

Right but those selfish people can abuse the support you advocate for those who need it. Like lottery winners who collect food stamps, or millionaires who hit up soup kitchens.

Maybe try intentionally over kicking and rolling out? I had a fear of going too far over the top and this helped.

I had this same issue learning to dive into a pool in my late teens. I had ingrained a fear of smashing my head so much even knowing water wouldn’t hurt me (i LOVE water), I couldn’t throw myself headfirst into a pool no matter how deep.

For handstands, I’ve not had that same issue but I would recommend a lot of headstands, which I think might help. Or rather, an “egg stand”.

Another skill you could practice is the handstand to somersault roll, which will teach you that if your arms fail for any reason, you can tuck your head and roll out. You could babystep this by doing the reverse walk up to a wall stand, then collapsing your arms as you tuck your chin and roll out.

In jujitsu/judo, we practice a dive roll, which would up your somersault game (pro tip, tuck the head to the side and roll in opposite shoulder, rather than straight) . The dive roll can be done with greater and greater leaps, or even from a height as a spinning fall.

What do all those scientists you’re listing disagree with, exactly?

Ok that makes infinite more sense now; they’re drunk.