"I would rather spend some time each day serenading myself in extremes, alternating between 210 degrees and 35 degrees, greater than 170 bpm and less than 50 bpm, over every single day spent lukewarm and predictable and atrophied."
This is more or less what Nassim Taleb advocates in his books. From an evolutionary perspective, variance is certainly far more natural.
"loving attention,"
This is pretty much exactly what buddhism advocates, and why I personally think it's a deeper philosophy/practice in many respects than stoic as popularized in our current times, as these issues have been extensively written about going back a few thousand years, even though they have a lot in common.
Great points Nick. No single school has it all, and then there is significant overlap between them. I think the art of living is combining the best of the laws of nature and the best of the philosophies of mankind
We suffer information spread. We are what never was, connected.
I dream of a time where we have adjusted to reaching only those reachable by our boundaries, flesh. Then we would crave the interaction, and even submit to lower levels for the benevolence of it.
"I’m telling her that whatever else I’m focusing on is more important than her as a human being;" I see this as I am telling her I am not worthy of your interaction, because my mind is used to clicks that get the job done, you demand effort. But I could be wrong.
Information spread has humanity locked from within. Nice work.
"If I know that this is the last moment on earth I will ever have, and this person before me the last person I will ever speak with, how would I act differently?"
It's a point I try to drive home constantly, and yet the mind being what it is, I always seem to forget this truth.
I've learned the hard way to enjoy the process of trial and error, of focus and unfocus, because I'm not sure there is a state of perfection - it all comes down to how much we can learn to love the process.
Thank you, Sam,
for asking us all to choose loving attention
to the person we are with.
Let us be tender and aware.
I pray each morning
that I will at all times
be tender and aware of my husband.
I learned those two words from DH Lawrence
as he speaks of love.
Being tender and aware of each other
as we live and as we speak
permits no rude intrusions
to come between us.
That is a noble way to start each morning. Thank you Dr. Hall, for your thoughts here, and for these two invaluable words.
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"I would rather spend some time each day serenading myself in extremes, alternating between 210 degrees and 35 degrees, greater than 170 bpm and less than 50 bpm, over every single day spent lukewarm and predictable and atrophied."
This is more or less what Nassim Taleb advocates in his books. From an evolutionary perspective, variance is certainly far more natural.
"loving attention,"
This is pretty much exactly what buddhism advocates, and why I personally think it's a deeper philosophy/practice in many respects than stoic as popularized in our current times, as these issues have been extensively written about going back a few thousand years, even though they have a lot in common.
Great points Nick. No single school has it all, and then there is significant overlap between them. I think the art of living is combining the best of the laws of nature and the best of the philosophies of mankind
We seem to be in agreement there!
Or at least that’s the path my life has lead
So willingly open!
We suffer information spread. We are what never was, connected.
I dream of a time where we have adjusted to reaching only those reachable by our boundaries, flesh. Then we would crave the interaction, and even submit to lower levels for the benevolence of it.
"I’m telling her that whatever else I’m focusing on is more important than her as a human being;" I see this as I am telling her I am not worthy of your interaction, because my mind is used to clicks that get the job done, you demand effort. But I could be wrong.
Information spread has humanity locked from within. Nice work.
I really like your perspective on this.
And I agree - we need to make sure we're no longer "locked from within".
If we don't have real interactions with each other, what do have left? What's the point?
"If I know that this is the last moment on earth I will ever have, and this person before me the last person I will ever speak with, how would I act differently?"
This is true perspective.
Thank you.
It's a point I try to drive home constantly, and yet the mind being what it is, I always seem to forget this truth.
I've learned the hard way to enjoy the process of trial and error, of focus and unfocus, because I'm not sure there is a state of perfection - it all comes down to how much we can learn to love the process.