= Ciro Santilli's psychology and physiology
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Ciro Santilli's energy throughout the day varies as follows:
* morning: highest
* 11AM: peak exercise performance
* after lunch: brain death. Possibly due to Ciro's partial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta[Spanish descent]?
* late afternoon and evening: can do some stuff
Ciro has low tolerance to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation[sleep deprivation] which makes him very irritable, and <window blackout>[low ability to sleep if there is any light]. It must have to do with those damned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell#Ganglion_cell_(non-rod_non-cone)_photoreceptors[ganglion cell photoreceptors]. On the other hand, <Ciro Santilli's wife> can sleep without any problems with some morning light! It is definitely genetic. Ciro conjectures that people from very Northern parts of the world must have a gene that allows them to sleep even if there is some light, while more equatorial people don't. Maybe: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33049062/
Ciro has mild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia[olfactory synesthesia] for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicium_verum[star anise (八角, bajiao)], which is widely used in <Chinese cuisine> and makes Ciro think uncontrollably of the color blue. Ciro does not have any other known synesthesias. He is also prone to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_sniping[nerd sniping] form time to time.
Ciro is a reptilian-like being with cold hands and feet and low blood pressure. For this reason he believes that he will die of <cancer> or some respiratory problem. If the <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[Chinese government] doesn't get him first that is. This also partly explains why Ciro is not a big fan of swimming.
Besides <Chinese food>, Ciro really likes <eating> fruits and <ciro santilli s cooking/roasted nuts>, maybe partly because he was <Ciro Santilli's biography>[born in Brazil], and partly because of monkey nature, see <Ciro Santilli>[his Chinese name]. At home he is known as "水果大王" (the big king of the fruits). Ciro is also a sucker for yoghurt (natural without added sugars and full fat, fat-tree yoghurt is terrible, often eaten with fruits). Ciro's "favorite drink" could be tonic water with freshly squeezed lemon. Tied with fresh fruit juices. <Chocolate>-wise, although not a huge fanatic, a Lindt <dark chocolate> with https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OLP0E9W[whole hazelnut pieces bar] will do the job.
Ciro does not like receiving or giving gifts on expected social situations like birthdays or Christmas. Ciro believes that every day is equally precious, and can be a day to give, be it through awesome <open source software> contributions, or if you find something that your friend will like
Ciro has some respiratory allergies. When he was around 5, he had relatively serious <asthma> crisis which scared his parents to death. Throughout his life, he appears to be allergic at an intermediate level to: mold or dust mites (or whatever it is that old books/pillows have), cats (itching on touch), hay fever (in May in the UK, likely grass pollen). But even outside of hayfever season, Ciro's nose is constantly either running in the cold, or often partially blocked while sleeping throughout the year. Ciro believes however that this also gives him higher resistance to viral infections, since it has been many many years since he had a cold/flu, and when everyone in the office is going down with it, he's just fine. Ciro wonders if his active immune system will actually kill off cancers early, which he ranks as his most likely causes of death, along with respiratory and gastro-intestinal problems. Ciro has low blood pressure and cannot get fat, so cardio vascular problems seem much less likely.
Ciro is generally <democrat> due to his high <Ciro Santilli's self perceived compassionate personality>[compassion level]. He believes that politics is highly genetically determined, and that just like you enter a room full of people and immediately like some and dislike others, the same goes for politics. People just vote for whoever they want to see more of because their way of speaking makes them feel good. There is not rationality involved in it at all.
Ciro self diagnoses a slight <graphomania> in the early 2020's. This is largely what led him to create <OurBigBook.com>, and <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[contribute to Stack Overflow]. Literature Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1529468840425422850[also suffers from the condition however], so maybe good can also come out of it:
> If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
When Ciro was quite young, maybe around 7-10, when he got very angry or sad for some stupid reason (<The bullying of young Ciro Santilli>[bullying perhaps]? Ciro forgot), he would have a psychosomatic manifestation: his spine would become visibly curved sideways (scoliosis). While writing this paragraph, Ciro <Googled> it, and found e.g. https://medium.com/@michaelrosen_94192/the-root-cause-of-scoliosis-5c461002b634[] that describes:
> The Root Cause of Idiopathic Scoliosis
It is proposed that Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) is a condition created by emotional stress. Evidence is presented that unresolved emotional stress can cause unbalanced tensions in the fascia and growing muscles that gradually deform the spinal column.
so it is a somewhat well known thing! Incredible. Can you imagine the level of the passions that lead to such physical deformations? But of course, <effortless effort>[it was all for nothing].
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