Wrench Lyfe: Recent Episodes
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Wrench Lyfe Ep 29 - Your Phone is Ruining Your Lyfe
Daily time spend on social media https://www.statista.com/statistics/433871/daily-social-media-usage-worldwide/
Time spent using connected tech continues to rise. https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-time-spent-with-connected-tech
Sleep Satistics https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/sleep-facts-statistics
Not all digital distractions are bad https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/challenges-potential-benefits-digital-distractions-social-media-mobile-phones/
The effects of social media usage on attention, motivation, and academic performance. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1469787418782817
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Why would you celebrate Christmas? Do you beleive in God or Jesus? Is it a tradition? A tradition of what? Did you earn Christmas? What makes one "earn" Christmas?
Why not?
I believe we MUST live forthright with the world. We must strive to be as honest with yourself as possible. To fill our proper place in the world. And manifest the best ME we can be by projecting that honest outwardly as well as inward. This means searching out our pitfalls. Identifying our weaknesses and trying out best to fill in those gaps. If we are honest with ourselves and each other this is growing processes which ends are beyond what we can imagine. This also means being honest about our strengths as well. We've been trained to believe being honest about one's strengths in vain and pretentious. It may very well be. BUT we are all striving to be honest AND you're incorrect about the capacity or competence others would point that out. Lastly, in line with this conversation. WE MUST BE willing to deny ourselves that which we didn't earn. That which we do not deserve nor earned nor are entitled to.
Wrench Lyfe Ep 22 - Blaise Returns, Meatober recap. No rest November recap Catching up with Blaise Mindful Moments Excerpt from Ludwig Von Mises "Liberalism"
Wrench Lyfe Ep 21 Meatober updates Mindful Moments passage from Douglas Murrays "The Madness Of Crowds" Intro to No Rest November Food rule 13
MEATOBER week 4 & Election Questions
Part 1: Meals and Feels
Part 2: Election questions and how/why you should vote or not vote.
Part 3: Michael Pollan food rule #12
Wrench Lyfe Ep 19 - MEATOBER week three. Part one: Meals and activities Part two:. Mindful Moments. A quote from Carl Jung's "Modern Man In Search Of A Soul" Part three: Week three general thought feelsings. Part four: Michael Pollan food rule #11
Part one, Meals and activities.
Part two, Mindful Moments. Quote breakdown from "The Federalist Papers" essay 41.
Part three, Feelings and thoughts on activities and performance.
Part four, Food rule #10 from Michael Pollan's "Food Rules".
Much of my beef has been sourced from McCann's Meats http://www.mccannslocalmeats.com/
Wrench Lyfe Ep 17 -Meatober Week 1 Updates part 1 Updates, meals & activies Part 2 Mindful Moments part 3 General thoughts and feelings part 4 Food Rule #9
Wrench Lyfe Ep 16 - MEATOBER
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Found my fitness Sulforaphane video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg
Vilhjalmur Stefansson WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
Wrench Lyfe Ep 15 - The World is Not on Fire
Welcome back to wrenchlyfe.
This episode is brought to you by every second you waste staring at your fucking phone.
By every moment you let slip through your feeble fingers with complacency and arrogance.
For every paradox and contraction in your character that you cant see, and Trust me everyone else can see it.
Do i sound bitter? Its because i am.
This podcast is brought to you by the fire that burns in your heart. The fire you seldom feel anymore. The fire you wish you still had.
The fire that fueled the teenage angst that made your first loves as just sweet as the heartache and bitterness then eventually manifested into.
The fire that inspired transcription of words that can bring tears to your eyes,
The fire that makes you want pack your fist full of hate and take a swing at the world.
The fire that when hardnessed, stoked, and controlled can change the world.
And in fact, its the only thing that ever has.
it starts with you.
Your mind, your body, your soul.
It starts with Your mental and physically health progressing one step at a time
We live in time like all times when the bravest thing you can do is speak the truth. Use your eyes and your logic. I pray you don't fall victim to groupthink, mob mentality, or toxic ideology
Welcome back my friends. I hope your well.
I recorded the following podcast at Wilmington Notch in the Adirondacks. I pulled over, lugged my gear into the woods and finally got this shit off my chest.
This is certainly not me at my best. I spoke from the top of my head. I was not as clear as i needed to be, but it is what it is. Its me, its us, its wrenchlyfe.
This is progression based mental health. We must accept how imperfect and flawed we are in order to make as steps forward.
In the following podcast, or rant, or cry for help, whatever you will call it.
I sound lost, worried, and scared. The political climate has left on walking on egg shells far too often. I hear in my voice a lost child, scared about the future.
I feel like the 8 year boy sitting quietly in the livingroom, a tear forming in the corner of their eye as his parents scream at each other in the kitchen. The storm is coming in
But in this situation the kitchen is american politics, the livingroom where i am trying to live my best life and we? We are both the lost boy and the screaming parents.
I am fearful of the collateral damage.
Id say enjoy, but what i really mean is think about it.
Wrench Lyfe Ep 14 - Mouthwash and politics
Season 2 & new format
Mouthwash and cardiovascular health
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903111242.htm
Political compass
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Media bias
Wrench Lyfe Ep 13 - Trail Markers and Faith Systems
On location podcast, sorry for the poor quality audio.
This podcast didn’t come out as good as I hoped but in true Wrench Lyfe fashion… it’s all about progress.
Today we bid adieu to our beloved co-host Blaise.
Blaise is leaving Rochester to pursue his culinary career in Chicago at the famous restaurant Alinea.
We also talk about Blaise's move to begin taking an SSRI.
https://www.alinearestaurant.com/
Wrench Lyfe Ep 11 -"The Happiness Hypothesis"
Read this book!
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Happiness-Hypothesis-Audiobook/B07D5HTRPZ?qid=1561124993&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=MBSEDG8YTY47HY9SJQBN&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1
https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Hypothesis-Finding-Modern-Ancient/dp/0465028020/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3B9PD7BRYY1SS&keywords=the+happiness+hypothesis+by+jonathan+haidt&qid=1561125026&s=gateway&sprefix=the+happiness+h%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1
Wrench Lyfe Ep 9 - Mind over matter - Diversity of Thought
Today we rant about how important it is understand your biases and being open to opposing opinion. What you need to know most is where you least want to look.
Wrench Lyfe Ep 8 - OBIRT Micronutrients
Retouch macro mico ND and BA and RDA
Recap a Kale example
Why they are important
Moments
List micros with details
Wrench Lyfe Ep 6 - Count your macros bro
Today outline
Roughly touch on nutrient density (ND) and Bioavailability (BA)
Break down of what we can do with some research and the info in today's podcast.
Mindful Moments
Macros- Carbs/sugar, Protein, and Fats
Wrench Lyfe Ep 5 - "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
We discuss and outline what is possibly the best food book to start your journey from.
https://michaelpollan.com/books/the-omnivores-dilemma/
Freud
Mind of Matter or MOM podcast
Your mind, or perspective isn't reality. It’s a tool, a filter through which the internal and external world is strained. Getting more perspective is add new tools to your psychological tool kit, like a colorblind person getting color correcting glasses for the first time
We will start the Mind Over Matter series (MOM) by outlining the fathers of psychology Jung, Nietzsche, Adler, and today we start with Freud.
Sections
Levels of the psyche
Analogies for them
What a Self defense mechanism is according to Freud
The 3 types of anxiety as defined by Freud
What types of defense mechanisms there are in Freud's veiw
And then my take on them
THE ID
unconscious that seek pleasure
Blind desire, detached, basic primal instincts, impulsive, satisfactory
It is the Horse to the rider
THE EGO
“self” taking account for the unconscious, mediating the balance being pain and pleasure, the body and the mind, and reality
THE SUPEREGO
“the conscience of mind”
Emerging around 5 or 6 years old this is the developed filter of real life regarding implementations of right and wrong.
Split further into “the ideal self” and “consciousness”
The concince contains ideals and morals the exist within society that prevent people from acting out based on their internal desires
The ideal self contain images of how people ought to behave according to societal ideals
Self IDeal is a borrow term from Freud's predecessor Alfred Adler who we will doing a podcast on later. Adler say the selfideal as the ideal self. Makes sense right. The best person you could be. Or God in a christian view
ID solitary vicious wild beast
EGO collaborative wild beast like wolves
SUPEREGO based in familial, cultural, religious, social software.
ID raw components of a computer
EGO operating software
SUPER EGO web browser and google's search engine algorithm.
Society is the internet**
Freud claimed we hold Self Defense mechanisms to protect a favorable or preferred view of ourselves. Not to be confused with the “ideal self within the SUPEREGO. Each part the ID EGO and SUPEREGO will conflict with each other from time to time. This is where self defence mechanism manifest, most commonly as anxiety
Freud identified 3 types of anxiety .
Reality Anxiety, Neurotic Anxiety, & Moral Anxiety
Reality Anxiety is the most basic and is of the EGO. Getting hurt. Pain
Neurotic Anxiety comes from an unconscious fear that the basic impulses of the id will take control of the person, leading to eventual punishment from expressing the ids desires
Moral anxiety comes from the superego. It appears in the form of a fear of violating values or moral codes, and appears as feelings like guilt or shame.
Anxiety occurs and the you attempt to find a rational way of escaping it using defense mechanism. These are ways that the ego develops to help deal with the id and the superego. Defense mechanisms often appear unconsciously and tend to distort or falsify reality. When the distortion of reality occurs, there is a change in perception which allows for a lessening in anxiety resulting in a reduction of tension within one's experiences. Sigmund Freud noted a number of ego defenses
1) Denial- believing that what is true is actually false
Dating someone who sucks and you stay with them. You know they sucks but you turn a bling eye on it as defence mechanism from the anxiety of breaking up
2) Displacement- taking out impulses on a less threatening target
Upset at work and you take it out on your romantic partner rather than facing and resolving the issue
3) Intellectualization- avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects
Analyzing aspect of your situation that are as far from the core of emotion. That could be think about the FACT that she cheated on you but not the fact that she was WILLING to because YOU fell short.
4) Projection- attributing uncomfortable feelings to others VERY COMMON
Obviously this is the blame game. Its Mom’s fault, Its her fault
Carl Jung Agreed “Projection is one the commonest psychic phenomena, Everything that is unconscious in ourselves we discover in our neighbour, we treat them accordingly” Archaic Man
This is huge. Verd often the things we dislike in ourselves we dislike in others. We are blind to see it in ourselves, we deny it.
5) Rationalization- creating false but believable justifications
Tied to intellectualization. I quit my job because my boss treated my poorly and not think that he was harsh on you because you were performing poorly
6) Reaction Formation- taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety
BURN IT TO THE GROUND. Fighting with my partner… so lets break up. Also phonemons like Stockholm syndrome
“Little man syndrome” often think they are bigger than they are
7) Regression- going back to a previous stage of development
In response to the anxiety of a promotion or added responsibility at work you choose to regress to another position or job below your current position to avoid that anxiety
“Choosing” to be single because of the anxiety of a relationship
8) Repression- pushing uncomfortable thoughts out of conscious awareness
9) Suppression- consciously forcing unwanted thoughts out of our awareness
Denying a promotion because you deny your own ability
People who don't want to think about their loved ones dying.
10) Sublimation- redirecting ‘wrong’ urges into socially acceptable actions. These defenses are not under our conscious control and our unconscious will use one or more to protect one's self from stressful situations. They are natural and normal and without these, neurosis develops such as anxiety states, phobias, obsessions, or hysteria.
These are the good ones. Stress relievers and stress managers.
Working out your anger ect ect
Projection can be a useful tool for your meditation space. We should strive to be critical of what we dislike and project onto others, extract it from the physical world and reintegrate it into our mind into something closer to conscious awareness. This is hard. This can be damn near impossible if your still deep in neurosis.
On the contrast if you are too deep into projection it is its own neurosis.
You will constantly be looking for scapegoats to project on and mostly likely to be a loved one.
I think we can all relate to this
Ultimately you push them away. then what? Look within at what Jung calls “the shadow” or find another.
Keep doing this and eventually you learn it's easier and more safer (from your shadow) to (get ready for this) its easier to project on to an entry group of people as your scapegoat.
t the choice is simple. You're served an solution, your giving a nice white screen to project on.
collectivism #identitypolitics #intersectionality #reactionaryfeminism #blacklivesmatter #bluelivesmatter
It is important to note that not all defense mechanisms are entirely negative. The political statements are generally about the abstraction humans into groups and NOT about the specifics of the political issue
Projection primes your for collective ideology. When offered a group to project on and a group to join in that projection, history tell us we join.
Some love to blame the majority of war on religion, i offer projection.
We must be honest with ourselves.
We mustt be honest without ourselves in order to be honest with others
We must be honest with outselves BEFORE we can be honest with others
We must embrace our shadow.
In our next podcast we will dive into the psychology of the great Carl Jung
The individuation process with includes the Shadow
Jung believed if we didn't answer answer the projection of the shadow on an individual level then the only outcome would be Wars
End Jung qoute from Visions: Notes of the Seminars Give between 1930 and 1934
“Modern people, are ignorant of what they really are
We have simply forgotten what a human being really is,
So we have men like Nietzsche and Freud, and Adler, who tell us what we are quite mercilessly.
We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we really are”
Wrench Lyfe Ep 3 "The Great Problem"
The idea of a normal man, perfectly healthy, is in itself an illusion. All mankind is liable to illness for we are not our own masters. Carl Jung
This podcast attempts to breakdown what we call “The Great Problem” with an economic analogy. We replace money with goals, markets with free thought/values , socialism with idealistic indoctrination, and “The American Dream” with Wrench Lyfe.
Enjoy
Wrench Lyfe Ep 2 Dave’s Background
This is part of the Intro to Wrench Lyfe series
To lay a solid foundation for where the Wrench Lyfe philosophy Dave’s gives and overview of his life and the events that shaped it. Broken down as follows
3 Key factors of my being
3 Key factor of my story
3 And key events in my life
BEING: Deep sense of purpose that made me feel I was different, my Dad, long term identity struggle
STORY: Tichotomy of family life, BMX origession based sports, quest for knowledge fueled by my father and that feeling.
EVENTS: Deterioration of family as a global “event”, My move to Rochester, The collapse of the only positive relationship I've ever had.”
Key Topics touched in this: Depressions, social anxiety, gender dysphoria, addiction, alcoholism, death, and suicide
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Intro to Wrench Lyfe
Meet Dave and Blaise
Ideology vs philosophy
Mental and physical health intserctions
Goals and Values
What is in your way? What is stopping you?
Is it the cold, or the snow? Perhaps you’re tired? Those are ALL the same thing. That is fear. The cold, I guess that’s uncomfortable. The snow, well that’s cold again isn’t it? If you're tired, will you be more tired later, or tomorrow? Maybe. Tired kind of is just being uncomfortable too, isn't it? Is uncomfort really something to fear? Especially if it is in the name of your personal progress and health. The hardest part of running or going out in the cold or snow is, overcoming the moment you make the choice. Is it is getting out of your own damn way. It’s when the 2% of you that isn’t a cold, tired, weak, complacent, ect. overpowers the 98% of you that is. Every time we make the choice, every time we stand up to our fear, weakness, self doubt, and self obstruction we become stronger. I am not saying you’ll ever be strong. But, you will become less weak in the progression of your mental and physical health. Wrench your Lyfe, one run at time. #wrenchlyfe #wrenchyourlyfe
Take a deep breath. Go on, exhale.
Perspective.
Acknowledge how tiny you are and how massive you can be. Acknowledge that everything, including yourself is made up of parts. All of those countless parts deserve attention. Look where you have yet to look. Look where you hesitate. Look at what you fear most. The evergreen stands tall and green when all else is dormant, hibernating, or dead. Yet, it is not the bulk of the tree that is green. It is the needles. A massive tree, sturdy and weathered, is comprised of a million tiny needles. A pine tree can live for five thousand years while its needles only last five years. An evergreen’s most defining characteristic only scratches the surface of what It is or may become. This is not to overlook the fact that the needles keep the tree alive.
So what’s the point?
Acknowledge that everything, including yourself is made up of parts. All of those countless parts deserve attention AND they have a critical and complicated relationship to each other. Nurture them and integrate them. Give every part of yourself the attention you deserve.
Wrench your lyfe.