trust your gut, intuition
Stuart Evans and
trust your gut, intuition
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll confuse
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Stuart Evans and
The actionable claim of Focusing (again, according to me) is that this information expresses itself in “felt senses” in the body — think butterflies in the stomach, or your throat closing up, or the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, or a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb, or whatever physiological sensation happens... See more
Duncan A Sabien • “Focusing” for skeptics
So before you build your second brain, build a relationship with your gut. Trust your felt-senses to guide you in discerning what is worth capturing. Get inexplicably emotional when you sit down to create. Feel your gut-feelings. Only then will you be able to create something truly valuable.
Daniel Kazandjian • Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
True art only occurs when you’re nobody-but-yourself. This requires you to fully feel your gut feelings. Whenever you forget this, you’re basically a mediocre LLM, assembling other people’s ideas by running simple scripts on biological hardware. Art isn’t assembly.
Daniel Kazandjian • Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
Maybe you don’t need direction, because, ultimately, you are already going the right way. Maybe, somewhere, your being/mind/heart/intuition already knows everything it needs to know about how to come home to itself. If you just look inwards, lovingly, perhaps you will come unbent, in some ways, or fully, eventually.
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Dealing with Uncertainty
Keely Adler and • 46 cards
I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
go deep enough w trusting your gut & heart, they’ll tell you when it’s time to use your intellect
go far enough w trusting your intellect, it’ll tell you it only works at peak capacity when you deepen into your gut & heart
the worst option is to not go far enough with either
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