Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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mokey jam session
Played three songs, theyre really complimenting my feel and playing a lot less in my hand/feet got me compliments too. 🥹🥹🥹Bye Bye Blackbird. Felt boring, should have led the band more.
Sandu. Led the band this time felt great. I've been focusing on forward momentum with my ride cymbals and I realized my hands and feet don't match, so I made that change (phrasing to the next note rather than grouping by beats) and felt that it was a lot less awkward. One good thing about all my left footwork is that I can really play the hihat. I can stomp the shit out of it on 2+4 but still back off and make pretty splashes.
You or Nothing. Felt bad at first, used more arm for the 2+4 and it made everything groove way harder. I dont practice fast so this is a good note for the future. Faster song so I could throw down my chops, people said I played fantastically. Like wtf, people really like me there. I listened back to the recording and I feel like my trading fours were good but not as clean as I'd like. Made use of a lot of the philly joe jones vocab that i know.
Talked to the house drummer, hes an older guy and it seems like hes going through some shit right now. It's heartbreaking, I hate the US, why cant we just take care of people.
The bassist is in the local symphony. He has the best life I'm jealous.