How To’s2021-11-10T02:42:21+00:00

How To Guides.  There’s BackTo20/20, the exclusive lair of Jake’s personal students working on their eyesight.  And then there are the free guides, available to all readers, right here on @endmyopia.  So whether you prefer DIY, or don’t want to enable Jake by funding his debaucherous lifestyle, or are just dabbling, this section is for you.

A decade of eye guru experience, in hundreds of individual guide posts, many with student examples, all here in this section.  Dive right in!

Is Your Phone Killing Your Vision Improvement?

As you may know, your favorite old timey eye guru, uncle VanderJakenhausen Le Third, lives in an off-grid jungle. You know where my phone is right now? Right.  I don't either.  Somewhere in the house.  Maybe near the charger.  I do use it to tether to tenuous 3G Internet to make you these posts and videos, so it's definitely on and definitely probably somewhere.   Where it's for sure not though, is in my pocket. It's nearly never in my [...]

More Active Focus Tips (From The Group)

As we all know, active focus is the sticking point with getting started on reversing your pesky myopia. Pesky, pesky myopia. To that end we maintain an ever growing list of resources, explanations, experiences, and tricks on finding active focus.   Bookmark that, if you're still struggling. Oh and hey, how about a little surprise improvement detour, before we talk active focus? Here's Annette for you: She sure found all teh active focuszzz. So on to the two recent recommendations: [...]

Active Focus, Visually Explained

This particular active focus guide was created by a darling member of our darling Facebook group. Note how countless resources here are really made possible by the many friends of endmyopia who make use of them.  You come, you find lots of free tools and ideas and inspiration.  You use it, you learn things, and perhaps you feel inclined to share your own experiences. That might be improvement reports, or other observations. Or in this case, a super handy take [...]

Can This Tiny Piece Of Paper Replace Your Optometrist?

Just a quick one today. No backlog of 20/20 improvement reports update (it's a shockingly large folder by now, yikes).   No rants.  No hey-we-made-more-videoz.   This just one I really thought was awesome, from the Facebook group. Justin made his own customized diopter measuring tape: How fancy is THAT. The starting point comes of course from the endmyopia downloads. Besides our custom eye charts and quasi astigmatism measuring tools and various Android and Windows measuring and logging apps, there [...]

Bad Close-Up: How You (Probably) Sabotage Your Vision Improvement

'Ello, kittehz. This, just a reminder post that there are new videos in our Tubes. Mainly one that you probably want to review, is this one on bad close-up habits.  Because we all have them (yes even thine holy guru).  Thing is lots of people don't realize they do it, and then they think they do everything 'else' right, and then they come complaining to me that their eyesight isn't improvement. But I tell you what.  They do this thing. [...]

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Choosing Normalized Diopters

Today, a quick video discussing how you might find a good normalized diopter compromise.  There are quite a few videos in our YouTube channel that I haven't reposted here, it's worth subscribing there in case I miss sharing new content here. Normalized diopter talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNfjfcbFJk Not in a very video mood, this guru. It does all boil down to personal preference and suiting your scenario and lifestyle.  The more you measure, the more you actively take part in your visual [...]