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“Boredom is when life happens…
Boredom is when you do the dishes, run the errand you’ve been putting off, respond to the text you’ve left on read. Boredom is when you bring a book to read on the subway or make small talk with the person in front of you in line about how slow the pharmacy is. Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel like
... See moreAnd discipline rests on the ability to act in a manner that is contrary to our feelings when necessary. This is an eminently human prerogative as well as a necessity.
Connie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow
Using relevance realization and 4E cognitive science to reverse engineer enlightenment and address perennial existential problems
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And now it's where we're going to start drawing the historical and the scientific together.
Is this account that I'm trying to argue for, for relevance realization as our meaning making, machinery, and for understanding sacredness in terms of religio, a higher order form of relevance realization,
Can I also use that machinery to give, and I've tried
... See moreIt starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
Why I pay myself first—with my time.
Occam’s broom is used to describe people’s tendency to sweep relevant facts “under the rug.” No doubt you’ve experienced Occam’s broom in an argument before — when the other person simply refuses to engage with a fact you’ve laid out in favor of your side.