Chasing all the things you think you need, but really only want on an ego level, will drive you insane… especially when you’re not moving any closer to them.
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Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. VI: Stillness
In the proceeding post, I advocated for effort and seeing yours tasks and endeavors through to completion. However, there is always a point where action becomes forced, and disadvantageous to either the work or to yourself.
Non-forcing and having trust in the natural order of all things (Tao) that unfolds when you just get out of your own way is an underlying principle of the Taoist concept, wu wei.
Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. IV: Organization and Structure
A minimalistic approach to life makes you more present, and thus receptive to insight. And just like with simplicity itself, organizing your space and time lightens the extraneous (unnecessary) cognitive load immensely.
Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. II: Detached Observing of Your Consciousness
In the first post of this series, I wrote about how finely-tuned body awareness allows you to identify changes in the state of your nervous system, and brings insight into what triggered that change. Staying with the body also keep you established in the here and now. When your attention does leave the present, itContinue reading “Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. II: Detached Observing of Your Consciousness”
Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. I: Mindfulness of the Body
The starting point and most useful tool for me is body awareness—recognizing the conditions of your inner world and subsequently regulating the nervous system. Everything else is downstream from there.
Human Creativity Will Prosper in the AGI Era
As the competition for AI application dominance heats up among tech companies, there is much speculation around the implications of machine-learning on the future of humanity—particularly artistic expression like literature and music. While automation may very well kill off the editing job that I currently hold (addendum: formerly held), I have faith that my otherContinue reading “Human Creativity Will Prosper in the AGI Era”
Escaping (US) Americanisms
The USA is largely a goal-oriented society that values results more than the struggle or process to attain them. This is somewhat of a departure from many of the other cultures I’ve been blessed to live amongst. In light of this, much of our time as Americans is spent planning for and envisioning the future.Continue reading “Escaping (US) Americanisms”
Distraction: When Is It Advantageous?
For much of my *professional* life, I’ve been easily swayed by distraction—not just getting down to business, whatever the undertaking may be, but also merely staying on task. I think this is a common struggle in the digital age, as the onslaught of stimuli and noise we’re faced with continues to grow. For a longContinue reading “Distraction: When Is It Advantageous?”
Mindfulness: Kill Your Thoughts or Let Them Pass?
From the point of view of mindfulness, the logic is not to care about any of the interesting changes and experiences that come as a result of practicing in this way, because the underlying goal is to be more and more equanimous with changes. So it’s not to grasp at what’s pleasant or interesting andContinue reading “Mindfulness: Kill Your Thoughts or Let Them Pass?”
Exteroception vs Interoception: Getting Out of Your Head
Most people are sort of in their head a lot. They’re not really present to what they’re doing, which leads me to the statement that I believe, most people have an interoceptive bias—they’re focused more on what’s going on internally than on what’s happening externally. I think that this is an issue because we hearContinue reading “Exteroception vs Interoception: Getting Out of Your Head”
Conscious Consumption 