Coming to your senses is literally waking up from thought.
To come back into your physicality is to escape your mind’s incessant ramblings
Tag: mind
- Theme: Self
Coming to your senses
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Self
Processing is not thinking, belief is not a function
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1–2 minutesA computer is a processing machine. Not a thinking machine.
It subordinates all things into processed information, anything unmeasurable becomes unimportant.
"Belief" is not a function, yet we now consider what you do (measurable action) to be the equivalent of what you believe (ideological stance).This linguistic supplantation through analogy -allowing processing to appear as thinking or belief to become simply a function- separates a complicated set of interwoven connections for simplistic measurables: provable feats aligning us to technology and away from humanity.
- Theme: Growth
The long-awaited payoff
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1–2 minutesThere are days when your accumulated foibles, your crafted predilections, and adherence to productive systems syncs up into a harmonious payoff. There are days where any request made of you feels effortless as you respond easily, flowing through the day.
And you realize you are pretty damn good at this life thing. - Theme: Systems
Hiding in simplicity
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1–2 minutesTo conflate profundity with complexity is common, but what if profound solutions are simple yet have infinite depth?
We are disposed to think novel solutions must be complex, requiring vast intelligence (otherwise we would have already figured it out), while in reality the solution may be hiding in simplicity.
- Theme: Growth
Trained to be creative
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1–2 minutesWe are trained since childhood to be users, and by this I mean owners… not necessarily makers or thinkers.
We are prepared by "choice architectures" designed to train us how to be, how to fit pieces together, and how to enact roles. Even "creativity" is an act designed for us, a role we play.To be creative we must see the role, and move beyond it.
- Theme: Self
Best intentions to help yourself
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1–2 minutesThe little things you do to help yourself often trip you up.
So I won’t forget something, I put it in my pocket, but then it is “out of sight, out of mind” and I walk around looking for it.
It is only by internalizing our system, so that we no longer remember to remember, that we truly help ourselves.
- Theme: Self
Anachronistic Physicality
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1–2 minutesThe physical buffets the intellectual. Attempting to remain isolated and engaged with itself, the mind is constantly interrupted by reality in the form of the body and objects.
This physicality of external pressures, seeming of the old world as we hurtle into the new, is not a curse to be thwarted. It is our medium by which to filter, process, and exercise concepts into reality. - Theme: Self
Body Resonance allows Mind Residence
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1–2 minutesWe always return to the body. Human care and compassion is rooted in physicality.
Interestingly, if we consider embodied cognition then consciousness is in the body as much as, if not more than, the mind.
Extending further: any abstract theory finds its relation (human receptivity) not in diagrammatic chains of logic, but in the role or impact upon the body.To ignore the body, or operate outside of it, means there is scant chance of residence in the mind: body resonance allows mind residence.
- Theme: Self
Brain Training
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1–2 minutesAlmost no one uses metrics to guide themselves in cognitive labor.
It is normal to train your body for specialized results. Why do we not measure and track our brain fitness equally?