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My personal technique: find a difficult problem/puzzle I can grind on when my mind can’t be put to rest. IMO all the self awareness / meditation advice are moo

by baby 4y ago

My personal technique: find a difficult problem/puzzle I can grind on when my mind can’t be put to rest. IMO all the self awareness / meditation advice are moot. What works is to find brain hacks. Ways to either break the loop or move the loop to a different task.

eastbound 4y ago
- I listen to an unpoliticized radio show of 2hrs. It’s irrelevant for life, but funny, it’s not cut by ads (Les Grosses Tètes in France), and it keeps my mind off my annoyances (like, failing at life), - I listen to Youtube videos about plane crashes to get to sleep. Not too good for sleep, but better than ruminating, and it stops at the end of the video (10-20 minutes). I think it smoothes me to hear about people’s death, after a youth being harassed that I can’t let go. Plus aviation shows are always about engineering, it tickles my rational mind, everything is logical, as opposed to humans. - Obviously, get a psychologist, to output your overwhelming thoughts, criticize your reasonings, and make plans for the future. Alternatively, people standing against bullying earlier in my life would have been a good way to prevent me from doing all I’ve done, but I’ve learnt you can only expect so much from humans lol, there is an expected level of violence in society, and the only way to prevent bullying is to be a bully yourself. Or that’s what everyone taught me, don’t be a victim, standup for yourself, it’s ok to do x or y, and blah blah blah, i.e. be as savage as the average of society, which is, a lot. A lot savage. God I wish things were different. Make it change. It’s Easter, let’s hope for a change ;)
- blowski 4y ago
  > I listen to an unpoliticized radio show of 2hrs In Our Time from the BBC is great for this.
- dr_dshiv 4y ago
  I remember that I’m on a muddy splot in a galaxy of 100b stars in a universe of 100b galaxies. And that 10^100 is a bigger number than all the atoms in the universe. Humans! Ha.
Grothendank 4y ago
Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses the entire mind. According to this line of thought, this working meditation is even better than normal meditation, because it gets shit done. Two Approaches: Grinding and Flow One approach is to do the task with perfect awareness and focus. We dismiss extraneous thoughts when they arise. We and focus on doing the task perfectly and without unnecessary pain or suffering. We could call this Grinding, since we still feel effort. Another approach is to enter a stateless flow. In this state, your awareness and focus and identity are no longer present as you do the task. You neither feel effort nor make errors as you do the task. We could call this Effortless Effort, or Flow.

by baby 4y ago

eastbound 4y ago

- I listen to an unpoliticized radio show of 2hrs. It’s irrelevant for life, but funny, it’s not cut by ads (Les Grosses Tètes in France), and it keeps my mind off my annoyances (like, failing at life), - I listen to Youtube videos about plane crashes to get to sleep. Not too good for sleep, but better than ruminating, and it stops at the end of the video (10-20 minutes). I think it smoothes me to hear about people’s death, after a youth being harassed that I can’t let go. Plus aviation shows are always about engineering, it tickles my rational mind, everything is logical, as opposed to humans. - Obviously, get a psychologist, to output your overwhelming thoughts, criticize your reasonings, and make plans for the future. Alternatively, people standing against bullying earlier in my life would have been a good way to prevent me from doing all I’ve done, but I’ve learnt you can only expect so much from humans lol, there is an expected level of violence in society, and the only way to prevent bullying is to be a bully yourself. Or that’s what everyone taught me, don’t be a victim, standup for yourself, it’s ok to do x or y, and blah blah blah, i.e. be as savage as the average of society, which is, a lot. A lot savage. God I wish things were different. Make it change. It’s Easter, let’s hope for a change ;)

blowski 4y ago
> I listen to an unpoliticized radio show of 2hrs In Our Time from the BBC is great for this.
dr_dshiv 4y ago
I remember that I’m on a muddy splot in a galaxy of 100b stars in a universe of 100b galaxies. And that 10^100 is a bigger number than all the atoms in the universe. Humans! Ha.

Grothendank 4y ago

Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses the entire mind. According to this line of thought, this working meditation is even better than normal meditation, because it gets shit done. Two Approaches: Grinding and Flow One approach is to do the task with perfect awareness and focus. We dismiss extraneous thoughts when they arise. We and focus on doing the task perfectly and without unnecessary pain or suffering. We could call this Grinding, since we still feel effort. Another approach is to enter a stateless flow. In this state, your awareness and focus and identity are no longer present as you do the task. You neither feel effort nor make errors as you do the task. We could call this Effortless Effort, or Flow.