Archive | May, 2012

How to Not Care About What Other People Think of You (or anything else)

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

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It’s common for people to proclaim that they don’t care what others think. Conventionally, it’s almost seen as a badge of confidence or honor.

I don’t care what other people think of me (or X). See? I’m cool!

In most cases I don’t think this is true though.

The person proclaiming this, to themselves, others, or both, is lying.  They do care what others think on some level and to some degree. It would be the rare individual that truly doesn’t.

I’m not even sure that it’s healthy to completely detach yourself from that care.

To the contrary, and to be completely honest, I do care what other people think on important topics, and even, of me.

The difference between me and your average joe however is that I care about what I think *more* than every and any other person on earth.

And I don’t mean this figuratively or metaphorically, I mean it literally, and to the extent that most people would consider it “monstrous”, “narcissistic”, or any number of other derogatory terms…

Gravity Based Exercise Equipment vs. Motorized Exercise Machines

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

This is a video blog I made yesterday on my Arx Fit Omni. In it I discuss the superiority of motorized exercise machines over gravity based equipment, including

  • dumbbells
  • barbells
  • kettle-bells
  • body weight exercises
  • selectorized equipment

My argument boils down to one fundamental point, with two distinct derivative points.

Primary point

An intelligent alien being, with an intent to build an exercise machine for universal human use, with no external influences in the realm of exercise equipment, would not build an exercise machine that requires the user (~7 billion people) to adapt to the machine. That being would have to build an exercise machine that adapted instead, to the user.

Which is the exact opposite of most exercise equipment seen today.

Derivative point 1:

Gravity based equipment is incapable of perfectly adapting to bio-mechanical variables that change from person to person, however large or small.

Motorized exercise equipment, does.

Derivative point 2:

Gravity based equipment is almost universally incapable of adapting to a user’s increasing fatigue during live, intense use. Motorized exercise machines not only adapt to the user’s demands, they do so…

Unboxing of the Best Exercise Machine in the World

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

Speaking only for myself, and as unveiled to the world at The 21 Convention (video), the ARX Fit Omni is the world’s best exercise machine.

And now it’s sitting in my house!

I had my first workout on it this morning. It was everything I ever dreamed of and more =).

I plan to blog a lot about the machine, why it’s such a revolutionary piece of equipment, and video record the first few dozen workouts.

Joy.

Make sure to visit ArxFit.com.

The Under 21 Convention

By Anthony Dream Johnson in The 21 Convention

 
This is another preview clip from the documentary interview of Socrates. As he mentions, Soc is one of the few people who has had the opportunity to see The 21 Convention grow from it’s very inception. No one pre-dates Soc. Not even me. The minute I even started toying with the idea, he was there.

More unique of course is that he is now a former speaker, and will be a returning speaker at the Austin convention this year. You can visit that link to see additional preview clips from Soc’s documentary interview.

Stop Chasing

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

Below are two comments from a reader and my responses. The picture above is included primarily because it very clearly expresses what I have been saying over multiple posts now : stop chasing.

The second comment set has more to do with chasing than the first comment set, but both should prove insightful.

From Random Indian (source)

Hey Anthony. I’ve commented here before under a few different user names (that I’ve since forgot). I’d like to address a few points.

You state that woman looking up to man is the natural state of womanhood but offer no scientific evidence to back up this claim.

Your point about chasing. If we observe much of the animal kingdom its the males who display (peacocking) and the females who choose amongst the males displaying. The Mystery Method is based on this premise. In modern human society this has been reversed. The females are doing the displaying, replacing the colorful feathers of the male peacock with colorful makeup and clothing, in order to…