Tag: philosophy
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Anxiety is a thinking problem
Anxiety is a thinking problem. It is a presence in flux, stuck in gear between looking backward and looking forward simultaneously. To better cope with the onslaught of worry, you need stronger cognitive tools or algorithms to live by. You need some cognitive presets and habits to inculcate them. For example, a basic tenet of…
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Alan Watts on the law of reversed effort
“When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float’ and that ‘insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.” Alan Watts on the ‘law of reversed effort’, also known as the ‘backwards law’ when doing what’s right make things wrong (as featured…
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Stem the tide
Automatons are soulless; they operate on voltage levels. However, humans can also be cruel, drugging the thinking out of their mind. Evil is infectious; it spreads like a fungus. The only way to beat a moral coward is to drain their morbid curiosity with a thoughtful mind. The accumulation of progressive effort stems the tide…