I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.
I asked Guillermo how can you improve your taste and he gave an answer that really resonated: just be more present and attuned to what's happening in the moment.
"Presence gives you clarity of mind and allows you to capture nuances, reactions, little things about the world." https://t.co/8xD6EOtVYM
Jack Altmanx.comA phenomenologist cannot get away with listening to a piece of music and saying, ‘How lovely!’ He or she must ask: is it plaintive? is it dignified? is it colossal and sublime? The point is to keep coming back to the ‘things themselves’ — phenomena stripped of their conceptual baggage — so as to bail out weak or extraneous material and get to the h
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