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!
How To Switch To Your First Normalized Prescription
How many of the same questions do I answer, over and over, in the forum? I'm so used to decades of answering the same questions thousands of times, that I often forget how this Internet thing can work so much more efficiently. I could just answer it once, properly, and then refer back to that answer. There is no need to repeat the same thing, thousands of times, in the forum. You know though, what they say about old dogs ...Well, finally [...]
Find Active Focus You Must
There is just one topic in the whole entire course, and on this site as a whole that tends to be a source of frustration for most new participants: Active Focus. It is where I suddenly start to sound like the overhead announcements in a busy train station - you understand everything, you know they are now talking about your departing train. And then the voice gets muffled exactly at the departure time and track portion of the announcement. If you [...]
Confused? Annoyed? Distance Vision And Close-Up Vision Improve At Different Rates
If you have done the vision improvement course, you noticed this: There is a whole lot of content in the first month. Some of it doesn't make all the sense in the world, at the time. I spent a lot of time considering how to best structure the course, and decided that I need to put everything you really need, into the first month. So there's quite a bit going on there, some of which doesn't add to your experience [...]
Challenge Yourself (And Your Friends) To A Game Of Distance Vision
There is a problem with my old brain, and many years of doing myopia rehab. Or more accurately, there is a problem with this format of delivering eyesight health content to you - me writing at a screen, which impassively stares back at me. It is a very strange new way for someone like me, who is trained to work based on interaction and feedback. Even e-mails are challenging, because of the huge amount of time that passes between individual messages.You [...]
Should You Be Equalizing Your Prescription?
Jean-Pierre asks in the forum: Edge of blur for left eye at -1.75 is ~55cm, for right eye 62cm. I think my left eye is challenged a bit at my working distance of 60cm, while the right one has it easy. So, should I go to -1.75/-1.5, or should I trust that my left eye will “catch up” ? *** Be kind to your eyes. We often talk about how you can't just get rid of your glasses. Living in [...]
Why You Are Likely Wasting 97% Of Your Vision
Let's spend a moment to look at peripheral vision.You might be surprised just how much of your eyesight you are missing, in your current lifestyle! Well over 90% of the natural vision experience is lost, when we combine 8+ hours a day of close-up, TV, and eyeglass frames. This translates to both tangible myopia, and less tangible but equally important psychological detrimental side effects.Since we base long term success on habit changes, getting all the right habits in place is [...]