Notes from Andy
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Mastering your mind:
- can you control yourself?
- can you sit still physically?
- can you control your mind?
  - can you concentrate on a simple object and nothing else?
  - can you have no thoughts?
    - can you free your mind from remembering the past or future?
    - can you have no visual images / sounds?
    - can you stop your inner monologue?


How to meditate:
- these steps are very gradual, not distinct steps:
- master focusing in the present (1-2 years)
  - disregard the past and future
  - focus on noises in the present. can jump around or listen to all.
  - on failure gently pull back to the present
  - mastery when you can do this for an hour
  - can start with shorter sessions
- master focusing only a single element in the present
  - for example, your breath
- master stopping the monologue
  - stop talking to yourself
  - stop making comments
  - stop the chatter
- master total absorption into that single element
  - deeper focus into the element
- Samadhi state
  - can only experience your own, dont read the wiki
  - Andy reached this only once, he felt omnipotent

- this becomes an intrinsic skill like talking and walking rather than a motor skill like throwing?
- if you dont use it you lose it?
- one you reach Samadhi your mind always meditates


Naval theory:
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1261481222359801856