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Favorite Non-Fiction: The Tao Te Ching Impro The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber Finite and Infinite Games The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Answer to Job by Carl Jung The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by... Historically I think this is something Circling culture got a little wrong—in an effort to not become bypassers, we overemphasized the negative/avoided/shadow experiences, rather than the meta-container of what allows us to even look at those epxeriences, so our average was less... replication crisis
I’d love a good explanation of this, because I feel I only understand pieces but not enough to explain it to others. I know there are issues where only significant results get published, so if someone redoes a published experiment and it fails, the failure to replicate doesn’t... There is definitely a conflation with facts vs opinions between "I trust this info" and I "I personally like this." I also think a crushing majority don’t really know the difference and will "trust" things they want/hope are true, rather than what they bet is true.... Roger Walsh has a great bit on TLCs-therapeutic lifestyle changes- research that shows positive impact from the following category of things, for which he notes from his studies at the time only Fish Oil had good evidence behind it (or something like that, it was a decade ago... - b_b...
Meta-discussion about urgency, pressure, how long is it sustainable?
I’d love for us to have an ongoing meta-discussion about urgency pressure the good life work life balance sprints and cycles of rest how long are certain cycles sustainable (in any given direction)? what contexts call for different ones?... Law of large numbers applied to psychological wounds
The law of large numbers basically says that the more instances, the more diluted weird strings of improbable events become relative to the whole—not by removing or balancing.... thanks. I’m leaning into disagreement here, partially for my personal growth (I’m so agreeable!) but partially to give us more data. Something about saying they’re suffering tremendously and therefore calling "unconscious self-organization" a problem feels like re-introducing... I like the idea of us continually talking about these things, mostly to provide the affordances for me to notice affordances to introspect and work with the things the various things the discussions might kick up about how I’m relating to the world....