Peaceful Porter's Blog

 Free workout programs from ChatGPT4 with a focus on my interests of calisthenics, HIIT, rock climbing, and running. Greetings peaceful people. This blog post is about my workout goals, it includes a link to my Notion page where I document workouts that I do that are given by the PhD workout coach on chatGPT4 The Notion Link: https://peach-catcher-2c2.notion.site/AI-Generated-Workouts-c28b71e88d9d497caf4634a9ba9199e6 Working out makes a healthy body and a healthy body is one part of being overall healthy.  My workout priorities are currently: 1. Perform an unassisted handstand for 30 seconds 2. Run 5 miles without knee pain the following 2 days 3. Increase general rock climbing skills. I want to be able to consistently climb v4's and 5.11+ 4. Perform a muscle-up 5. Other calisthenics skills (planche, single arm-pushup, single-arm pullup) You can follow me on Strava here: https://www.strava.com/athletes/61622439

How to change your relationship with math Introduction :  Having any problem - whether with math, your car, or your personal life -  is really a blessing, not only because of how great it feels to have solved it afterwards but because of the deeper understanding of the world that results from it afterwards. Math has been an exceptional tool for me to cultivate a growth mindset where we learn from our mistakes and appreciate them rather than fear them. Its also important to know that most people are not born to be exceptional at mathematics but its like any other skill that needs to be refined over time.  One thing that helped me is to just study math for fun, don’t enroll in a course or anything, just read a math book or try to solve some math puzzles.  Here is one of my favorites:      Can you try to count to 16 with just 5 fingers? (hint: think with a different number system. Maybe like a      computer?) Using math for meditation: ...

Stress and anxiety are normal parts of life.  There is the type of stress that we experience on a daily basis and if left unnoticed, it can pile up and up as we develop the habit of getting into negative thought patterns that materialize themselves in generalized anxiety for the world. We identify with our stress and get addicted to the thought cycles. Through the practice of mindfulness, we don't ever make stress go away, we just change our relationship with it. So, maybe when we start our practice of mindfulness we still fall into the repeating thought patterns that cause stress - or allow moments of stress to linger with us throughout the day. As we continue our practice, we start to see form a third person perspective our relationship with it and we can smile at ourselves. Continued practice allows us to break the cycle that our minds and habits may try to keep us in.  Breathing in with the stress Breathing out, releasing the stress Breathing in, Breathing out.  Notic...