thanks for the clarification. you're right on that. i've found that my social skills have dramatically improved from trying to learn them _conceptually_, rathe

thanks for the clarification. you're right on that. i've found that my social skills have dramatically improved from trying to learn them _conceptually_, rather than implicitly. I watched a lot of tv shows - walking dead, house of cards, game of thrones, breaking bad - and kept pausing the tv to discuss with my wife _why_ people were acting the ways they did. doing this really helped me come to understand a lot of things, like the importance of staying calm if you want to be respected. apparently 'dispositional mindfulness' is mindfulness as a default state, as opposed to something practiced intentionally. going about my day thinking about abstract things constantly seems like the opposite of dispositional mindfulness. i'll haveh to look further.