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Logically speaking, contacts or surgery just hide the symptom. If you get a headache, do you say "well, logically I need some painkillers right now"? I'm not trying to give you shit, I though the same way for 15 years. In hindsight though, I wasn't really thinking at all. There's a cause, and I just didn't really go looking for it. Did you look at that link I posted? It explains it pretty simply. We spend too much time focused up close. The focusing muscle gets overstrained. Eye grows longer, to compensate for strain. Longer eye = default up close focus = less focus muscle stress. Logically thinking, I don't want to be blind, or have a laser carve up my eyes. It's a quick fix. Naturally vs. some external enhancement ... Do we take steroids, try to bulk up as fast as possible at no matter what cost? I don't. It took seven months to get a 50% improvement in my eyesight. My astigmatism is GONE. I'm glad to take another year or two to be back to 20/20. No different from working out. Doing things right sometimes takes time.

I used to believe the "it's not possible" talk, too. Then again, a lot of people say I couldn't retire by 30, vagabond around the planet. I told myself it wasn't possible to overcome my massive fear of heights (about to head to India to do some more paragliding, so much for that). "It's not possible" to me is just an invitation to go try. I'm gonna post this here, again: http://www.cedonulli.com/looks-are-environmental/ Seven months I still had a -4.00 myopia prescription. I couldn't see much of anything, without glasses. I started a myopia rehabilitation program back in May. "It's not possible" is currently -2.25, and counting. My eyes are so much better, I don't even wear glasses some days. So much for all that. Self guided, I'm not sure how well that would work. I'd been lucky enough to have had a connection to one of the greatest guys I've ever had the pleasure to meet. About to retire Austrian guy, guru of all things blurry vision. He's got a bit of an explanation of myopia here: http://www.myopiachallenge.com/why-is-my-vision-blurry/ I've got nothing to gain from sharing this. Alex has paid, distance myopia rehab programs (which is what I'm doing), but also super inexpensive Web stuff that's pretty decent. You ask him, he's likely to give it to you for free if you don't feel like it's worth paying for. Myopia is a STRESS symptom, covered up with glasses, eventually becomes an axial length change in your eyeball. It's no grand mystery. Read his link, and check out the other links to all the clinicaltrials.gov studies substantiating the biology and science. Don't be a sheeple in the profit stats of big eye pharma. Cheers.

I speak seven languages so far. My approach: Google a list of 500 most common words. Translate those words to language of choice. Index cards (or Android) app, one side English, other side new language - one word each. Memorize ten words a day. Super hard the first week, so-so the second week, after two months one look at a new word and you remember it. Memory, amazing thing. Move to the country. Let using those words, watching TV, interacting with locals fill in all the grammar organically. I never learned a single grammar rule, but I speak like a native in four or my languages. Grammar study just f's up your mind. Vocab, then living there.

The main idea I guess is how glasses change the focal plane in your eye. All the rehab stuff is centered around using a specific prescription strength for near work, like on the computer. It lets me only see clearly to about 20 inches, and I keep far enough from the screen where the image is just barely in focus. I always alter that distance a bit. There's a distance calculator on Alex site, and I keep track of how many centimeters I can move back and still see clearly. I use it as a log for improvement. I also have a 'normalized' prescription, one that's about 1/4 diopter lower than the correction that the centimeter calculator suggests. So I can see clearly at a distance, but only as long as I make a conscious effort to focus. After a few months when my vision clears up with that prescription, I get another 1/4 lower. There's a bit more to it with the details of how long to do what, but that's about the gist of it. No weird voodoo. Aside from bulking up (NF!) and getting my eyeballs back in shape, the fun of the myopia rehab thing really is this: http://www.myopiachallenge.com/vision-improvement-an-opportunity-to-experiment-with-style

It didn't change that whole amount at once. For the first month they kept me at the same, the following month based on my measurements, they took it down one diopter, to -3.00. That took me about a month and a half to get fully used to and see 20/20 (with the glasses on). After that all the decrements have been about 1/4 diopter each. Apparently I was overprescribed to begin with, and part of my myopia was ciliary (which they say can be corrected pretty quickly). So now the improvements are not as fast, but still getting better a bit at a time. My optometrist said "that's not possible" and "no, I can't give you lower prescriptions". I quit going there, buying my glasses online now. It's super nice to actually be able to find my glasses, if I'm not wearing any.

Harsh. I can do 30 pull ups if I really go after it, but that ... no way. Time to go find a bar!

Any of you guys try to quit having to wear glasses for nearsightedness? I started about seven months ago, with a rehab program. Down to -2.25, started out with -4.00 prescription. Pretty amazing. Before, totally blind without glasses. Now I can skip a day here and there altogether (as long as the lighting is decent). Supposedly another year and a half or so and I should be at or really close to 20/20. Posted some lens comparison pictures here: http://www.cedonulli.com/my-eyeballs-vs-limiting-beliefs/ (hope that's cool, link and whatnot?). Eating makes a pretty big difference too, ie. skipping sugars and simple carbs. And drinking. A night of boozing and I can't see for shit for the next two days.

You started with a wall, probably? That's how I did it. Knowing that the wall will catch you, just kicking enough. Bam, like magic, suddenly just there. Worked for me. Got into handstand pushups from there. Knocking out 20 at a time now, feels amazing.

That's amazing. I never explored it, just seeing the crazy advanced stuff. That video makes it look super approachable, though.

MS Surface Pro looks super promising ... the first tablet-ish thing I'd consider trying out.

Feminists all over must be outraged.

Been hanging out with a girl with a lithe ballet dancer body who lived in a Thai boxing dojo for a year. You never know ...

Bacon. And milk. After an extra hour of lifting.