do you feel better? yes, thanks for asking — windy af, freeze opinions & videos of the week.

We got a storm blowing in on our general direction for tomorrow, it’s gonna be a little windy today but full on tomorrow at some point in the middle of the night, it’s probably gonna make sleeping kinda difficult and tomorrow might be a channel so I’m flipping the script on that tonight — gonna be a super early sleep/nap setup and then maybe a work through the night setup, i don’t mind it, I’ve got the rest of the week to recover if needed! ;)

My daily stoic book today was pushing me to question situations where we get frustrated and asked ‘do I feel better when X’ (apply this to a variety of situations) and obviously when you ask someone who thinks logically this question outside of those scenarios of course the answer is no — it’s just a reaction to the event, the uncontrollable urge to believe that releasing emotion in some way contributes to helping it.

I think the core stoic element contained is this notion of being always so regimental in your thought process that you have to look at everything so logically and see that certain things that would be considered weakness are described for in some way that makes reacting to them more measured than emotional.

While I respect the notion, I think in the 21st century a little bit of additional emotional intelligence bolted onto the core concepts of being ‘stoic’ can go a long way, elements of the book describe a much colder/harder emotionless reaction to situations (again, probably from showing weakness) or because it was seen as ‘unmanly’ like there was a hard and fast preset for what defines being a man.

Everything in the natural world finds a way to adapt and evolve so why not the average everyday Joe — you don’t have to just play your role or position and if you don’t want to align to your fellow man you do you, whatever unmanly way you have to achieve it, you can still be stoic of mind and emotive of heart in my book, flexitarian that shit to what brings you joy.

Personally I’ve made a few recent changes, just to let the universe know that I’m here to change things up instead of just going down the same old path, I’m only a week into it but I can see that my determination levels are higher than ever, the extra space I’ve created will make me time crunch a block of days a week like never before because the value of those days has suddenly increased and the ‘comfort’ of them has reduced.

I’ve found that a lot in my working life too, we might be three months away from delivering a project but we will end up doing the testing a week before instead of slowly testing and improving and considering all situations as soon as we get the job.

videos I found this week

This video is an overview of an electric vehicle conversion done on a 2001 VW Passat. Using a 90kw Siemens AC induction motor and a drive inverter that the guy built himself, incredible stuff.

You can find my post here, you just need to click unhide to see it, https://steemit.com/dtube/@teamhumble/qbyo3n43sia — or just click through on the YouTube video to go to the main video on YouTube!

Also. .. I love kebabs, but especially kofte. .

Alex is a fav channel that dayleeo showed me one day that I instantly thought was as cool as casey neistat’s stuff — he drills down on something and either wants to replicate it or make it better, step through until he knows all about it — you can find that post here — https://steemit.com/dtube/@teamhumble/zdlfp1p9pwr

I’m glad that my work is my hobby in that regard too then because that means I’m already testing, trying and adapting to new methods or brand new technology even if it’s cutting edge and new — I’m willing to experiment in my own time and if it works then it ends up getting to the edge and if nothing else, becomes a backup.

Anyway, back to it, gotta a few things on my life list today to get done, feeling upbeat about the new energy direction, the fact that dayle got some results back and because I’m re-upping on spinach today (ha!) it’s the little things in life right?

You be careful of that Storm Ciara if you are out there m’kay?

Cheers!
__humble x