Doing One’s Business
Lincoln Stoller2019-09-19T11:48:22-07:00Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
This post is about our essential ability to change state and perception. At its root, this is what hypnosis is: the phototaxis of consciousness.
How do you get what you don’t have? The question of how you become more aware from a less aware state requires something that you do not yet have. This is a healthy spiritual exercise.
The critical idea behind deep nature connection is not nature, it’s connection. Nature is the mirror because nature holds the chaos of the interaction of relevant things.
Horizontal thinking generates inventions, but studying its success does not tell you how to do it. Creativity can be taught, we just don’t do it.
On the proposal that we should think about how we're thinking before we get too sure about what we're doing.
If we can embrace all our flaws and inabilities, and take these into account when we design our environment, we can create a much better world.
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I draw a parallel between education and health. I believe teaching oneself and healing oneself are skills that enable one another.
With caution against excessive immersion, action video games can help us learn, focus, and multitask.
Health is not what you have in life, it's what you do with life.
You can train your brain to function better during sleep. It’s a process of tuning down habitual tension and separating yourself from habitual conflict.