11:37 PM
Today is Veteran's Day, so it's a U.S. Holiday. It's also 11/11 today which is a cool coincidental number or angel number as some people call it. In 2011, it was 11/11/11, though I don't recall that day at all now. I can't even recall 11/11 last year, 2023. Oh well.
Today I planned on working, but I ended up not doing that. I might still be able to work a bit tonight, but probably won't. Instead, I just did productive activities throughout the day. I got through my dailies of brain training, exercises, vegan activism, home chores, and other organizational tasks. I also watched a bit of The Legend of Galactic Heroes Die Neue These again, it's been years since I watched it.
For my brain training, I excelled again. For one of the apps I use, it has a brain assessment score called Peak Brain Score. It's just your overall rating for a bunch of different brain games and puzzles. It's sort of like IQ but not really, IQ is malleable by the way, I have always believed that, even if a large part of it is genetic, environment and practice can alter the mind a lot, just like exercise can alter the body a lot.
Obviously doing puzzles, word, and math problems daily like I do, improves brain performance. It's hard to say what the results are, I don't feel any different, I don't look any different nor think any different, but I can do mental arithmetic like 8372 - 2812 pretty quickly in my head, it's 5560 by the way, and I did that pretty much instantly. I don't know if this helps me at all in any area of life. I feel like it's like being rank 1 in a video game, which I've achieved a few times in a few games, yeah I was the top player out of all players in some games, but it didn't affect anything at all. I didn't gain any new followers, influence, riches, or anything really, from becoming the best in any game, it was all Pyrrhic victories.
Though arguably, I feel the same about acing classes in school. In 8th grade I got straight A's in all my classes. In 9th grade I got straight A's, except for 1 class which I got an A- in I think. Then I stopped trying after that, because I felt like I got so close but didn't make it, so I took school less seriously and never got straight A's since, but I did get good grades still. I don't know if any of those grades helped me in my life at all. It's hard to tell.
It's the same with working out too. I worked out today. I did all of these workouts in just 1 set: 8 pull-ups, 8 chin-ups, 17 squats, 2 minutes of planking, 34 leg raises, and 32 push ups. I also went to the gym tonight and did a bunch of other workouts, like bench press and barbell overhead press, taking up an hour. I also did some cleaning which counts as a physical activity, and I walked 12k steps today because I went to the park and walked for an hour and a half. It all feels like nothing at all improved, nothing at all changed, nothing at all mattered.
I read an article about not feeling sore after a workout. I still never feel sore after a workout, no matter how much I do. Even though they may have taken a lot of effort, like 2 minutes of planking, I don't feel any soreness afterwards. I read from this article that not feeling sore after working out, basically means your diet and lifestyle are probably extremely healthy because you are able to recover so quickly. I eat at least 2 pounds of vegetables per day, a bunch of rice and legumes, and that's basically been my diet lately. Around $5 of food a day, all vegan, no animal corpses or body parts, haven't eaten any of those for 11 years. It's great to have it confirmed that not feeling sore is actually what we want to experience.
Still, I do improve weekly. I set a new personal best of 8 pull-ups in a row yesterday, and I did the same amount today. Even though I am improving, it still feels like it all amounts to nothing. None of my activities feel like they are mattering, even if they do.
My Peak Brain Score is now 869. It was 870 last week, and then it slowly declined to like 865 or 864, and now it's back to 869. I think it put me at the 99th percentile when I got to 814 Peak Brain Score or something, and now I'm like 50 points higher. For all I know, I could already be rank 1 in this whole game too, but it doesn't have a visible ranking system. I am rank 1 out of everyone in the game called Quick X Maths though, I am still rank 1 in that game right now. The other games I've been ranked 1 at are Granage, Waifu Zone Control, and Richest Hobo, and then some miscellaneous flash games, those are the ones I remember for now.
So yeah, I can't really say having a Peak Brain Score of over 800 has helped me in life at all. I can't say that being able to do a pull-up has helped my life at all. It's really hard to say.
Anyway, I can touch my forehead to my toes again in the butterfly sitting position and hold it there for a few seconds. When we can do something, it feels effortless. For the things we can't do, they seem impossible. I can bend all the way down and touch my forehead to my toes extremely easily, without even trying. Writing in cursive or drawing however, those are impossible tasks to me. I can't write in cursive well no matter how hard I try, nor can I draw well. Obviously practice will make me better, but it will literally take hours and hours, and days and days, and years and years, for me to become competent at handwriting cursive and drawing, and I don't think I can dedicate any time to that.
I think being able to touch one's forehead to their toes, just requires some basic stretching and practice. I've been able to do it since I was a kid, but that was because it was a common warm-up exercise in Tae Kwon Do, and all the kids were able to do it. There's a lot of exercises I can't do yet.
Anyway, I'm very sleepy and just going to sleep now. Super tired.
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