Great article but one thing I disagree with is outsourcing responsibility for cooking and cleaning.
The main reason is diet is the ultimate expression of self mastery and only sexual desire influences your thoughts, beliefs, and actions more than what you eat as a matter of routine.
At the same time the condition of your domicile has a direct correlation to fulfilment of both your nutritional and sexual requirements.
Every sexually dimorphic organism on the planet survives on the basis of 2 things. It's ability to feed itself and it's offspring, and the ability to actually produce those offspring through territorial dominance.
Humans are no exception to that rule.
Consider the lion example.
A male lion with no territory must hunt for itself.
Once he has established his territory, he must spend all of his time "cleaning" it so there are no threats to his lionesses or his offspring. So much so that he lionesses hunt for him.
Food is also more than calories and nutrition, it's biological data. Looking at it, touching it, breathing on it, personalizing it alters it's character in such a way that two pieces of food with the exact same ingredients and surface level appearance, one prepared by yourself and the other by a stranger are not the all the same thing - especially when fed to your offspring.
Likewise, your personal domicile, shared with your pairbond mate and offspring, groomed and tidied by a stranger does not have the same energy than if it is groomed and tidied by yourself.
The space you inhabit and the food you eat are the fulfilment of the most important needs you have.
In the past, I discovered the hard way the consequences of not personally taking responsibility for those things.
That's not to say to fully reject periodic support when it comes to cooking and cleaning, but to have the maximum level of control over your own life and wellbeing, those two things you must take primary responsibility for.
Maybe its just me personally but I have 99.9999% pain in doing tasks that are transient. I really only feel normal when all of my efforts go into moving upwards or compounding. My brain cannot cope with the idea that my environment is asking me to wash dishes every day - forever. Or prepare food - every day - forever.
Transient tasks are the best tasks for introspection once routiniezed, especially the essential tasks of life.
The essential virtues to compounding effort are patience and forbearance.
From a systems perspective, that means disengaging from action and allowing the systems you've established to work things out on their own, without intervention or effort on your part.
Transient tasks are also the best for disengaging from the things that only time can make better.
Think about how wine is made. Most of the effort in making a quality wine is waiting for it to be ready.
While waiting, transient tasks essential to your wellbeing makes the time pass faster and makes the wait more bearable.
Great article but one thing I disagree with is outsourcing responsibility for cooking and cleaning.
The main reason is diet is the ultimate expression of self mastery and only sexual desire influences your thoughts, beliefs, and actions more than what you eat as a matter of routine.
At the same time the condition of your domicile has a direct correlation to fulfilment of both your nutritional and sexual requirements.
Every sexually dimorphic organism on the planet survives on the basis of 2 things. It's ability to feed itself and it's offspring, and the ability to actually produce those offspring through territorial dominance.
Humans are no exception to that rule.
Consider the lion example.
A male lion with no territory must hunt for itself.
Once he has established his territory, he must spend all of his time "cleaning" it so there are no threats to his lionesses or his offspring. So much so that he lionesses hunt for him.
Food is also more than calories and nutrition, it's biological data. Looking at it, touching it, breathing on it, personalizing it alters it's character in such a way that two pieces of food with the exact same ingredients and surface level appearance, one prepared by yourself and the other by a stranger are not the all the same thing - especially when fed to your offspring.
Likewise, your personal domicile, shared with your pairbond mate and offspring, groomed and tidied by a stranger does not have the same energy than if it is groomed and tidied by yourself.
The space you inhabit and the food you eat are the fulfilment of the most important needs you have.
In the past, I discovered the hard way the consequences of not personally taking responsibility for those things.
That's not to say to fully reject periodic support when it comes to cooking and cleaning, but to have the maximum level of control over your own life and wellbeing, those two things you must take primary responsibility for.
Maybe its just me personally but I have 99.9999% pain in doing tasks that are transient. I really only feel normal when all of my efforts go into moving upwards or compounding. My brain cannot cope with the idea that my environment is asking me to wash dishes every day - forever. Or prepare food - every day - forever.
Transient tasks are the best tasks for introspection once routiniezed, especially the essential tasks of life.
The essential virtues to compounding effort are patience and forbearance.
From a systems perspective, that means disengaging from action and allowing the systems you've established to work things out on their own, without intervention or effort on your part.
Transient tasks are also the best for disengaging from the things that only time can make better.
Think about how wine is made. Most of the effort in making a quality wine is waiting for it to be ready.
While waiting, transient tasks essential to your wellbeing makes the time pass faster and makes the wait more bearable.