https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes daily 1.0 2025-06-04 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/r0qh6rpfa913dtkk26rqb3u0shpv3e monthly 0.5 2023-09-27 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/earn-your-trident-every-day monthly 0.5 2023-09-28 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/is-it-really-darkest-before-the-dawn monthly 0.5 2023-04-29 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/finding-a-mentor-why-and-how monthly 0.5 2023-02-27 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/physical-activity-cultivates-mental-resilience monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/guilt-how-to-live-with-it monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/how-i-turned-a-bad-day-into-a-great-day-and-you-can-too monthly 0.5 2023-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/15addf26-0da1-43c3-89f6-2f71b786fbee/Ron_Blank_yin_yang_symbol_fire_pink_and_blue_highlights_608dc743-0144-4e98-8f89-6b3ee41b819d.png Notes - HOW I TURNED A BAD DAY INTO A GREAT DAY, AND YOU CAN TOO - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/smile-through-hardship monthly 0.5 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/42f55ddb-c40f-4b58-9399-89cda0d36354/Ron_Blank_tough_woman_sutble_smile_inspiring_pink_and_blue_high_5c3c4d8e-bc48-4b58-921f-4f740a284c47.png Notes - SMILE THROUGH HARDSHIP - Make it stand out Smile! 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[generated on Midjourney AI] https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/journaling-and-the-rise-of-ai monthly 0.5 2023-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/d9edc5be-a217-4507-9d6b-fb04db020eb0/Ron_Blank_cosmic_a_man_monk_philosopher_writing_thoughts_and_un_f4c60f70-d9f9-4411-b8a6-8ae4021e859e+%281%29.png Notes - JOURNALING, AND THE RISE OF AI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/write-it-down monthly 0.5 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/f4c92a44-c747-4b16-b577-6ed7fc88a902/Ron_Blank_write_fbd52757-3adb-404b-83d3-38536e827c92.png Notes - WRITE IT DOWN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/be-deliberate monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/2863be4e-0fc0-4856-bc05-95c64457ba0f/Ron_Blank_dna_mutation_evolution_pink_and_blue_highlights_9cf7397e-1329-4dab-ae30-4b8c22e421d1.png Notes - USE THE FORCE: be deliberate in order to grow - Make it stand out DNA… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/57864b57-c428-42cd-a82c-eb1aecdf4ebc/random_walk_no_bias.png Notes - USE THE FORCE: be deliberate in order to grow - Make it stand out Illustration of 100 random walk steps. You do cover some area eventually, but it’s not very efficient… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/b7284b66-dc04-40fa-838c-6bd7fba7ff64/Screen+Shot+2023-01-09+at+3.33.03.png Notes - USE THE FORCE: be deliberate in order to grow - Make it stand out Adding a small “bias”, to point your steps in the right direction, creates a big improvement in your progress in that direction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/ee4c7ec8-2ed9-442f-be2a-c3d58500e029/Screen+Shot+2023-01-09+at+3.36.04.png Notes - USE THE FORCE: be deliberate in order to grow - Make it stand out Final distance for different strengths of bias. We see that as the bias increases, we cover more distance… https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/atomic-habits monthly 0.5 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/c4b90793-8fa1-4d90-ba81-ec8c717a69dd/retina-atomic-habits-dots.png Notes - ATOMIC HABITS - Make it stand out The Atomic Habits book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/ab578646-ee62-4540-ab1f-6eb9cb926868/Ron_Blank_chain_4bfb5353-961b-47f1-b864-1657ae7ed2ee.png Notes - ATOMIC HABITS - Make it stand out Chain, generated on Midjourney AI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/3ba14cec-ba93-4c16-870b-9cf81fe07623/Ron_Blank_atomic_habits_3d2e460e-a973-463a-bf75-bc1a162a3518.png Notes - ATOMIC HABITS - Make it stand out Atomic, generated on Midjourney AI https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/how-to-approach-big-tasks monthly 0.5 2022-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/cf088e4c-f4e4-4df7-bc8d-2b5140e83e3b/Ron_Blank_A_man_lost_in_darkness_with_a_flashlight_fog_of_war_p_36f9de18-ece5-4237-8b9b-b1717c0a078b.png Notes - How to approach big scary tasks? - Make it stand out Walking into the unknown, the fog of war… [generated on Midjourney AI] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/1666720154683-9DS1PQ32V7FT79VXEK4B/the_obstacle_is_the_way_minimal_square.png Notes - How to approach big scary tasks? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/7e74a6f7-15da-4f23-a32b-42ae3019c3ac/step_into_the_darkness.png Notes - How to approach big scary tasks? - Make it stand out Stepping into the darkness [generated on Midjourney AI] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/bf1f6666-4b37-4566-8b26-e3450a06049a/Ron_Blank_map_on_table_with_navigation_insturments_389960ec-b84c-457e-a2dc-d6ac5ad47fab.png Notes - How to approach big scary tasks? - Make it stand out An illustration of a map [generated on Midjourney AI] https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/accept-the-pain monthly 0.5 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/3dca99f9-eeb9-4010-9ca6-92a74ea9baa7/Marcus_Aurelius_pink_and_blue_highlights.png Notes - Accept the pain; Reduce the suffering - Marcus Aurelius One of the greatest Roman emperor’s, and a Stoic Philosopher. One of the key messages of the Stoic philosophy is “the obstacle is the way”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/9e65874d-e359-4727-92ed-4595a694b8b2/3da792_e5382a73ad05471cb3ce7dc5d145a0ef_mv2.jpg Notes - Accept the pain; Reduce the suffering - Low Squat Long forgotten mobility that I need to regain. https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/assemble-your-life monthly 0.5 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/3dca99f9-eeb9-4010-9ca6-92a74ea9baa7/Marcus_Aurelius_pink_and_blue_highlights.png Notes - ASSEMBLE YOUR LIFE - Make it stand out Marcus Aurelius image generated on “Midjourney”, the image generation AI platform. This is so crazy, I just had to put it here. https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/you-are-not-alone monthly 0.5 2022-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/f05c35a7-d603-46e6-9c64-4a4832b76748/President_Roosevelt_-_Pach_Bros_%28cropped%29.jpg Notes - YOU ARE NOT ALONE - SUFFERING, STRENGTH, AND CHALLENGES - Theodore Roosevelt “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; […] who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat” https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/bruce-lee-82-birthday monthly 0.5 2023-01-30 https://adaptive-resilience.net/notes/plans-are-nothing-planning-is-everything monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6310b9584a80996cbe9c5d35/405d88e7-7e6b-4319-a5dc-d2662797eb93/impact_van_diagram.png Notes - Plans are nothing; planning is everything - The Zones Everybody wants the Golden Zone: impact, challenging [in a healthy way], interesting. But, reality dictates that somethings from Blue Zone will also need addressing. The Blue Zone is still “good” - impact, challenging [in a healthy way], BUT it might not be the MOST interesting thing you could have thought about. And the danger zone…. Impact and interest, but WAY outside of your capacity. 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