i’ve realized that basically everything i talk about comes back to this core idea of making who you naturally are more full and expressed in your life by seeing yourself more clearly! this can manifest as confronting your shadow, paying attention to your natural gifts, leaning in

un-self-ing development: I'm not interested in "self improvement" as if an individual is a bounded system that contains various habits, beliefs, skills & behaviour patterns that can be upgraded like a phone downloading a new version from the app store

Twitter Is A Dating App For Making Friends here's some ideas about how to have fun on twitter dot com (this is the thread I will send to people on their first day here)

To make this concrete, here are the failure-modes of a few popular psychospiritual modalities that I love: • IFS: you go looking for problematic parts, so the mind starts creating & reifying ones that explain your problems • Somatic experiencing: you look for trauma in the body, mind starts generating or regenerating uncomfortable tensions/pains/se... See more

Been listening to more of Rob Burbea and appreciate his emphasis on how clarifying your specific + personal desire to meditate is often completely missed — and how it impacts the way that the practice will unfold. Seems like this could also be extrapolated to many other areas of life... where nuances in your motivation will impact the landscape of... See more

thinking about doing a thread on "how to become ingroup", I'll jot some notes here while I make my omelette - don't talk about ingroup before you're ingroup - don't talk about outgroup b/c it increases your legibility which decreases your ingroup potential - poast but esp. reply

On Finding Your People: I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal yet lonely or unusual yet connected 0. Treat it as a second job. For... See more

- reality is indescribably and irreducibly complex - models are representations of reality which we use to make it somewhat easier to navigate - models are always flawed - we are trained by schooling etc to try to update/refine models for greater accuracy,

Get Unrealistic There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...👇 Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great… Show more