Author: Denis

OK. Ai can and will be able probably to do everything and make what I am doing utterly pointless. However, if I do nothing, I don’t go anywhere. I have to do something. I have AI tools that will help me create the website I have always wanted, but never had the time needed nor the patience to finish it. I am doing that now. Even though I know somewhere, someone with more money and time will have something a billion times better, it doesn’t matter. I am going to do it for me, and for the people who have chosen me as their tutor. To Hell with the rest of the world and what there might or might not be out there. 

 

It is only in moving forward that we move forward. A common cause of paralysis is the feeling that someone else is far better, it is true someone, somewhere IS always better. But the point is, that person is not me. And, should I care? I should not care, if it prevents me from taking action. Only by taking action do we move forward on this journey. Action must be authentic and genuine. It will be a record of your being and energy in this world. Be original, be individual. Do not look at others, only hold your own previous attempts as the bar to which you compare yourself, because nothing else matters. 

Collective thinking was greatest thing that happened to humanity. It gave us a massive acceleration in our evolution and eventual success.

I’ve benefited from being part of the whole. Even though, I sometimes like to go off alone. Actually, I found that the group gave me something more than what I could have done by myself. And for that reason, I feel it is a great thing to be part of a collective. And it is not about material things, it’s about helping each other, it’s communication, pure and simple.

Are we more monkeylike, or wolflike though. I’d say we are more wolf though. As a group we dominate the plain, the forest, all vast open land, divide tasks and hunt as a collective as apex predators. Monkeys are not apex. On the whole they are fruit eaters. We’re apex, but we’re only there as a pack. Some with great talent and individuality, but those special ones are nothing outside of the pack.

How does that natural, organic human group function? It’s self sustaining. There is a natural instinct to help and share with others. Strip away all culture, all moral or political ideology. There is a natural desire in humans to fight together as a pack.

I put this idea to Grok. Here’s what it returned to me:

We’re “wolf-like” in outcome (apex through coordinated hunting—persistence hunting or group drives of large game made us top predators for ~2 million years), but the mechanism is more primate-like, amplified by culture and cognition. A better analogy might be: primate sociality + wolf-level coordinated predation + unique human traits like language and norms.

Yeah, I would agree with that. It’s what I kind of meant anyway. Of course we’re monkeys. But we evolved alongside our best friends.

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No news is good news

  • Nothing bad happened, even if my life is a bit boring, I am happy. Most of the time news is usually about something bad, news is always

 

Make my day

  •  Do to something that make today the best day for me, better than any other day, something special

 

Thrilled to bits

  • Extremely happy, usually because some good news, it could be marriage or birth, passing your degree, celebrating

 

Can’t thank you enough

  • I want to thank you, but it was such a great thing there is no way to return the favor

 

On top of the world

  • extremely pleaded, similar to over the Moon

   

______ means a lot to me

  • something is important for, something or someone you love, you don’t want to lose. E.g. My Mum means a lot to me

  

A weight off my shoulders

  • A problem that you had previously, a burden, which disappeared, it is no more, the problem is gone

 

Can’t wait to (infinitive)

  • Looking forward to, to be excited about something in the future: I can’t wait to run. I am looking forward to running

 

Shattered/ knackered, exhausted

  • extremely tired

 

drives me crazy

  • makes you feel angry,

Fed up with sth :

  • tired, bored, angry E.g. I am fed up with pandemics

 

Under the weather

  • Little bit sick

 

Shaken up

  • Shocked, gob-smacked,

 

Bored to death

  • Extremely bored

 

Cranky:

  • Irritable, especially when you get old, you get annoyed very easily

 

Let sleeping dogs lie

  • similar to let bygones be bygones, don’t annoy or bother bad people because they can cause you problems.

What is the ‘rat race’?

  • The rat race describes the city or the environment which is very competitive, lots of people trying to improve their careers and for example in the rush hour on the metro or underground, millions of people that look like rats.

What is ‘peacocking’?

  • Strutting around like peacock, trying to impress people but in a ridiculous overstated way. Usually males who try to impress with their cars or expensive things, or even their looks.

What are ‘sheeple’?

  • People who do not think for themselves and simply follow the rules, mainstream media and government.

What does ‘barking up the wrong tree’ mean?

  • A mistaken idea about something, usually when you have an idea and you think it is correct and excellent but is completely wrong.

What is a ‘sting in the tail’?

  • Like the Scorpion. A small animal that is not that powerful or big but has the ability to cause massive damage and pain with its sting.

 

What is ‘sadfishing’?

  • Fishing for sympathy. Usually on facebook, or youtube when people talk about their problems or tragedies in order to get other people to feel sorry.

 

What is the ‘GOAT’?

  • the greatest of all time. Eliud Kipchoge.

 

What is ‘cloud cuckoo land’?

  • Absolutely insane, mad, unreal, fantasy.

What is a ‘tiger mother’?

  • Usually Chinese but also other Asian mothers who really push their kids to study and organize their schedules to become child geniuses. They are protective but also extremely ambitious for the children and try to make them achieve their greatest potential. It is mostly a positive trait.