Behavioral Education
Lincoln Stoller2019-08-03T02:50:48-07:00If 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.
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.
The lesson is that if you do not change and grow yourself, then your lessons will assault you.
When it comes to your health, winning seems the imperative, and it seems one must win at all costs. This is rarely true; it is rarely the case that your fate is sealed and you must play the game set before you.
Advertising is a like fishing. It’s a process of watching people’s habits, and inferring something about how they think. Here are interesting results.
All our lives we’re told to develop discernment, exercise judgement, and find the importance in things, but I found scarce few who were doing it. Around 2000 I decided to retrace my steps, and ask those people who were living a committed life what they were doing, and why.
This piece is about what we think is real and the difference between sensation and feeling. It is about the worlds of imagination and dreams, and the process of making feelings into sensations, that is making dreams real. This confusion about real and imagined disease is just plain dumb. It is a fallacy that imagination is not real, it can have as much effect as any other perception. In fact, everything sensed through perception is an act of imagination.
"If we don’t approach change correctly, we can’t make it happen. If you want to make better changes, you need a better understanding of how things change. This applies as much to your
"Consciousness is being aware of what comes up in your mind. That means thoughts, perceptions, and sensations. Consciousness is not the control of these things, it's awareness of them. Control happens elsewhere. "We are not
"Colleges and universities are a microcosm in the macrocosm. They are the best representation of scaled down human collective consciousness that I know. They're a better representation than corporations because they're more independent internally, and