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Years ago, I studied shamanism with a Lakota medicine woman. She said that the difference between science and shamanism is that a shaman doesn’t care how something works, only that it does. Science often doesn’t believe something works until it understands how.
Polyvagal Theory is Dead. Now What?
about knowing it works without knowing how
Notice also how the initial knowing comes from a place deep inside your body, but the negotiation happens in your intellect. This is a significant distinction: knowing with the body and thinking with the intellect.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
The black sun, blackness, putrefactio, mortificatio, the nigredo, poisoning, torture, killing, decomposition, rotting, and death all form a web of interrelationships that describe a terrifying, if most often provisional, eclipse of consciousness or of our conscious standpoint.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
How AI and structured protocols can free left-brain time to pursue right-brain meaning, love, and purpose
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This is a problem that a lot of people have. They want more and more and more. I mean, I've got protocols. I got protocols up the wazoo, man. But protocols aren't it.
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Why differentiation matters more than imitation in entrepreneurship: Dyson, Edwin Land, control, iteration, and compounding advantage.
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It's so like orthodoxy just really needs to be off the table from the beginning of a project or like from the beginning of decision making.
Have you ever studied James Dyson? Not enough.
In fact, I can only recommend one book ever. It's his first autobiography. but he has a crazy line about this.
So this is also very common with great entrepreneurs
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