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@nibras
Asking, "how do we human beautifully?"
nibras
- "The instructions for how to Do Nothing are very short - just two sentences: let whatever happens, happen. As soon as you're aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention." Shinzen Young [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA]
- I started to meditate in a different way. I let go of the idea of what meditation was supposed to be. So I would sit down and let my experience simply be, in a very deep way. I started to let go of trying to control my experience. That became the beginning of discovering for myself what True Meditation is. From that point on, that shift - moving fr... See more
- Someone set up your mind in the following hilarious way. All day long you are tortured by vicious thoughts. If you try to make them go away, that, too, becomes an unhelpful kind of self-bludgeoning. However, if you tranquilly accept whatever you’re thinking and feeling, for a period of time, eventually a different, more pleasant state of mind obtai... See more
One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people wil
... See morefrom What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman by Oliver Burkeman
The world doesn’t happen to us; it is shaped by us. More people now have access to simple tools that allow them to “program,” or modify, the world around them. Teaching kids that the world is programmable – whether it’s through actual coding, games like Roblox and Minecraft, encouraging them to ask for what they want, or even white-hat
... See morefrom Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
" Younger generations didn’t become “more technical”, per se – if anything, they’re probably less technically literate overall. It’s programming itself that became easier, because there are now so many tools and layers of abstraction available that make coding a much more trivial practice than before."
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
If you believe that the world is shaped by your and others’ actions, then the climate crisis or other global catastrophic risk don’t look quite so scary: they’re an opportunity to do something meaningful.
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
If Gen X and Millennials grew up with a “digital divide,” perhaps Gen Z will face an “agentic divide”: those who believe they have the power to change their circumstances, versus those who do not.
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we can’t do very much to stop the world’s problems, it’s unsurprising that they’d 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 “Failure to Cop
... See morefrom Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova