In my recent post "One Step at a Time [https://thelastredoubt.com/one-step-at-a-time/]" I offhandedly mentioned how ramping back up a skill you haven't kept honed involved wasted time getting back up to speed. Turns out that Alexander Hellene was on the same wavelength [https://amatopia.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/on-guitars-and-deteriorating-skills/] : > I picked up a guitar a few days ago for the first time in months and woo boy, was I struggling. I mean, it wasn’t like I completely forgot how…
I'd written about most of the songs on Sabaton's "The Last Stand", including Blood of Bannockburn [https://thelastredoubt.com/music-sabaton-last-stand-blood-of/], the subject of their latest history vid.…
One of my personal weaknesses is that I tend to get into obsessive ruts - take on a project that interests me, deeply immerse myself in it until I'm satisfied with my level of knowledge and skill, if not polish, then drop it for the next shiny thing that attracts my attention. Daily habit is relatively lacking, and things with slow progress curves requiring months, years of work are also difficult. I also have a tendency to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Knowing this is literally the r…
I originally wasn't going to write about this as it's all too easy to fall into yet another pointless scream-and-shout about it, but after letting it simmer for a while, I think it's well worth writing taking the time. First, a vid from a psychologist who takes issue with the new APA guidelines and makes a few good points about how shitty they truly are. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that he's putting his license on the line... OK. Since I still keep track of Ars for…
Over on the Red Pill Religion Youtube Channel, John C Wright and Max discuss neurolinguistic programming and how it affects things. Wright is particularly well situated to comment on that, as he wrote the authorized sequel to A. E. Van Vogts "Null-A" books. Covered in the discussion are thought traps, avoiding them through precision of language and how decades of propaganda, advertising, and tyrannical linguistic programming rework language to hide and shade (what Owen Benjamin would calls Wiz…