One of my favourite movies so far has been Waking Life by Richard Linklater. I find it difficult to describe what it makes me feel, and that’s partly why I like it so much.
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Read the full post yes, thanks! the developmental level one I think will be particularly poignant at some point
I’m thinking this is a nice frame to apply to bad psychological experiences—"wounds" or "trauma." We don’t "heal"—we add new data until the past is proportionally negligible in our experience.... 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.... I have a pre-generated list of recommendations from my Level Up course; these arent necessarily my favorites, bc they’re directed at relateful facilitation: Jordan’s reading list Here are some books I think are wonderful and have had a big influence on me.... 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... What is
internally self-justify
?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?... what is your emotional response?
mine: very validating of the direction!
some fear that tries to make urgent planes to make the fear go away!Open heart to their suffering, wanting to love them in that, and the suffering about suffering. Something about wanting to separate compassion for the 1st person experience from 3rd person truth claims maybe?... - b_b...
I’ve got some tears coming to my eyes, reading your summary. Feeling hope in the world or something.
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... 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....