commentr/StutterNovember 12, 2023

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You've gathered an impressive amount of information and coupled it well with your own intuition, even if it's all a bit scattered. You seem like a hard-headed and dedicated guy. I can't help you with what you asked because I don't do guides. I don't have the final piece of the puzzle yet, so I won't start constructing the puzzle knowing it'll turn incomplete. It's those missing pieces that force you to rely under indefinite and vague assumptions to build a hypothesis, much as building a house on the sand. I have a different approach. I'm a highly erratic thinker and heavily rely on creative vision. Why? Because no one's walked the path to the cure before. And so I can't draw only from existing material, but need inspiration. And I have no control over that. I have most of my research in my head, unwritten and unstructured. Every time I stumble on another piece of the puzzle, every piece of relevant information from my research floods back in my mind, falling in place in the integrative perspective I'm trying to build. It's absurd. I don't know how to make sense of that. I haven't read everything you wrote yet (I definitely will), but I looked at the strategies specifically. I can give you my thoughts on that portion: Firstly, I'll start with what you asked me. You want to prepare a 10-page step-by-step guide. You don't have the cure, so how can you know it'll fit your 10 pages? You're trying to put lightning in a bottle. Or you've grown a bit distracted over the volume of information you've amassed, and so it makes you anxious when you look at it. You want to make it neat and tidy, while trying to do right by yourself for all the effort you put over the years. Secondly, I can safely assume none of your strategies are effective. Why? If you stumbled on THE effective strategy, you would have no need for the others and you would get rid of them. You thought out and wrote them in a state of high-excitability/hyper-awareness, essentially writing your brain down and dissecting to the smallest pixel you could. And then your body returns to homeostasis after a long sleep or rest. You return to the text and it doesn't make as much sense as it did. You're no longer in the same highly excitable state, and so your brain can't make the same associations it did. Others stand to understand it even less. You reach a similar state again and you derive a new strategy. Rinse and repeat. This may or may not be true to you. I know I used to do this until I realized. If it is, you have to learn to separate the wheat from the chaff and remain accountable. You're on a noble quest, but it is a bitch of a task though.

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