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by nico kokonas ¡ updated 3mo ago
wisdom đ
- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesnât work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be âmore in the momentâ i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- Defining yourself by your suffering is an effective way to keep suffering forever
from 100 Tips for a Better Life by lesswrong.com
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesnât work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be âmore in the momentâ i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- There is less time these days for anything other than economic survival. The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments, spread throughout the day. In the absence of time to physically and politically engage with our community the way many of us ... See more
from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called âembodied cognitionâ is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
from The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- Saying yes frequently is an additive strategy. Saying no is a subtractive strategy. Keep saying no to a lot of things - the negative and unimportant ones - and once in awhile, you will be left with an idea which is so compelling that it would be a screaming no-brainer 'yes'.
from Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction? | Hacker News
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- It's the same with most successful people. They're never more engaged than when you disagree with them. Whereas the obstinate don't want to hear you. When you point out problems, their eyes glaze over, and their replies sound like ideologues talking about matters of doctrine.
from The Right Kind of Stubborn by Paul Graham
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we canât do very much to stop the worldâs problems, itâs unsurprising that theyâd be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in âFailure to Cop
... See morefrom Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that itâs possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more
from Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
nico kokonas added 3mo ago