Skiing reintroduction and expectations

Unfortunately, I have been sick the past couple of days. I keep getting reminded of the classic quote

A healthy man wants 1000 things, a sick man only wants 1

I really just wanted to be healthy again, shit sucked. My joints and such are also not in great condition, so everything kinda feels like it's falling apart, but the trend is that things are improving, which is promising.

Creativity

I had some brainstorming before on what pathways of creativity cannabis unlocks, and how I can access those without the use of cannabis. Even still, the chemical shortcut is helpful and powerful. On the lift today, I had a couple of great ideas, which I want to explore further, chief among them being a physics-grounded breakdown of skiing, and an extension of this idea where i have a really clean reading UI that gives the key equations that define something. Honestly, building something like that for a lot of different science-y things would be helpful for me to also make my understanding more complete as well.

Mental reframes and psychological tests

I've had two clean shifts recently that are helping me on my mental health journey: 1. Naval's approach of always finding a positive in something, and 2. Frankl's thought of how the only true free will we have is to choose how we respond to anything. Example below:

Hopefully I'll think of / learn about other tools that help too, but even these two are really helpful for my purposes.

Performance

There's a tension between trying to squeeze out too much performance and overdoing it. I think I've toed the line many times this season, and I want to ensure that I'm well set up for the rest of the year as well. Given PY will likely want to ski a good amount, I think the smart thing to do is to lay low and let the ski body recover. Now is a good time to focus on some of the other skill acquisition I've been thinking about (read: mobility). Even there, it'll be important not to push too hard and injure myself from stretching.