river stone
@rivrstone
living art and soul, lover of frisbee.
river stone
it turns out
there are centres in the body that correspond weirdly reliably to certain psychological states
and when things go wrong, u see muscular pulling inwards towards these centres
for example… https://t.co/U5Z59zQbzr
this is why I am not afraid of AI
excerpt from David Reed’s book on improvisation https://t.co/ygTqEqe8I7
learning mastermind and Self & Transformation
who do u go to master ultimate frisbee?
Another barrier to change is perfectionism’s demand for certainty before action. Because perfectionism says you need to know that your goal is correct before you spend any time or energy on it, you can get stuck spending weeks and months trying to figure out if your goal is worth pursuing in the first place. The issue with making certainty a prereq
... See moreClarissa W. Ong • The Anxious Perfectionist
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
... See morePerfectionism holds us back from showing up and trying, or really doing the important work of our lives. This happens because when we are afraid of failing, or feeling vulnerable, or not being as good as we want others to think we are, we end up avoiding the work that is required to actually become that good.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
Perfectionism is easy to see on someone. Physically it is a rigidity in the musculature and there can be stunted tones in the voice. Mentally they are often second-guessing themselves, hesitant, and overly precise.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
as i struggle with the sense of imperfection in all of my life work, i wonder if this musculature is true of me?
I was just explaining to my friend this is how the 8 consciousnesses create a feedback loop that forms reality. The 5 senses feed raw nonconceptual and equanimious sense data to the 6th consciousness, the chitta, which conceptualize what it's being fed. "That's a dog, that's a chair, that's red" etc.
This is fed into the 7th consciousness, the ma... See more
How Can We Learn Better?
To start answering the question, I dove into the notes and work of @andy_matuschak, who is a full-time researcher on learning, and an advocate of 1. Deliberate Practice and 2. Spaced Repetition in knowledge work.
I have to be honest: though I love learning, I find both of these methods difficult and unwieldy in most cases... See more
there’s sth here flavored like “whatever can be destroyed by truth should be”
any part of you that needs defense against being seen/felt should probably be looked at even closer