Prashant Patel
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@samtrish
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.” - Deborah Levy
…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.
“The principles of tracking should also be applied to your life – constantly look for and acknowledge information that attunes you with your inner self” - Boyd Varty
Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas
The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there”.
A Change in Perspective Is Worth 80 IQ Points
Our ‘mind design principle’ for new and more successful mental habits is thus a simple one: because thinking is self-talk, talk and thought are linked. To change patterns of thinking, change patterns of talking.
World we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations