Reclaim The Brain
My attention is shot. I’d like to have another go. Things about focus, the ruination of focus, ADHD, and paying attention.
Reclaim The Brain
Freud defined depression as anger turned inwards. There’s some truth to this for sure, but I think the great existential psychologist Rollo May defined it more accurately: “Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Thoughts on AI (particularly generative AI) in no particular order of development or importance:
The widespread use of AI is resulting in the largest collective brain drain of the human experience. But is this the result of COVID (remote learning, overreliance on online experiences, mental decline from Long COVID) and AI is the tool used to
I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • Choosing to Walk
PTSD is literally defined as being “marked by an inability to construct a coherent story of our past.”
Phoebe Tickell • New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What It Means to Be Human
Friction-maxxing is not simply a matter of reducing your screen time, or whatever. It’s the process of building up tolerance for “inconvenience” (which is usually not inconvenience at all but just the vagaries of being a person living with other people in spaces that are impossible to completely control) — and then reaching even toward enjoyment.... See more
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Tech companies want you to think that life is generally difficult and inconvenient. It’s not. But without this idea, they don’t really have a reason to exist. In some cases, their mere presence IS the reason life is more difficult than it needs to be.
THE POORLY DEFINED PROBLEM OF BEING ALIVE
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
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