You wonder if it’s really that important to get natural ambient light for your close-up time? Andrew sheds some (natural) light on that question, in this post.
There’s an annoying tendency in a lot of teachings.
And that’s the tendency to add superfluous things, embellishments, hoops to make you jump through. I personally suspect they’re there just to make the teacher seem more important, the approach more complex and requiring of expert instruction. It must be amazing, just look at all the complicated steps involved!
Think religious ceremonies, or martial arts stances and belts and things.
You’re getting none of all that extraneous business, with dear uncle Jakey. You found a properly lazy eye guru, one who only will to do the things that produce the most results. 80-20 rule, concentrating only on the things that really create the change you’re looking for.
“Looking for”. So pun-ful.
It is true that your most favorite darling eye guru could seem more important, more wise, more ingenious if I were to add a few dozen more steps and tricks and features and exercises and jungle berries you just have to eat to improve your vision. You’d get the same results, since you also practice the core things that actually work, while imagining that all the extraneous pieces can’t be skipped to get the results. It’s how they get you, the tricky ones.
But none of that here. You find no eye exercises on endmyopia, I’m selling you no Jake-branded eye vitamins, not even a nice assemble-at-home Jake shrine.
It’ll sell. Call me, IKEA!
Just the 80, of the 80-20 rule.
Part of the 80 is natural daylight. You can get away without it, but it will affect your 20-20 gains. Here’s Andrew, coming to this conclusion himself:
Charts, too!
You notice the best part?
Everything we talk about here, you can test yourself. I never tell you to go do anything and just take it on faith. All the pieces here tie to your eye chart results, your centimeter results, you can (and should) always go look at how changes to your habits affect your distance vision.
I really wish everything worked the way I try to structure it here for you. Give me science, give me rational explanations, give me a way to empirically test the validity of assertions, and give me a community to interact with (our FB group). I like sites that discuss health things and reference specific blood panels you should do to substantiate changes (vs. ones selling you jungle berry juice and telling you it’s “superfood”). I like sites that link to clinical studies, sites that don’t push me to buy stuff at every turn.
Hopefully you’re getting some of that, here. Hopefully you’re making lots of great 20/20 gains. (let me know if you do, Jakey is just a quick e-mail away!)
Cheers,
-Jake
