philosophy
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Stress test
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Stress is the great equalizer and our biggest distractor. It is worse than a sting from the ludic loop, mere fodder for over-thinking. But we can dampen its attentive nature. We can do things to get unstuck from the chaos of the monkey mind. The quickest mood modulator could be a psychedelic to reset the…
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Copycat cravings
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To be free of copycat cravings, the individual moves on in a setting of controlled forgetting. It’s always time to move on from the herd. The mainstream never solves every human problem. It exaggerates the solutions, sucking up to the truth as the best lie. We exist at the expense of each other as if…
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Nature’s mirror
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Control is nature’s worst enemy. As humans take the driver’s seat, how the wild evolves tells us about how we’ve changed too. The environment has a good idea about how things should be, and then it meanders with purpose. The oceans and clouds get anxious and bite back if there’s too much external influence, disruption,…
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Stepping into the future
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Out of step with the times, in step with the undistributed future. The present is all some people know; an interpretive process stuck into the closeupness of the mind. There are too many lemmings and not enough thinkers. He or she who insists on themselves always begins with something trivial before the objective gets serious. Everything is…
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It takes the time that it takes
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It takes the time that it takes. We are suckers for speed, enthralled by unnecessary fast focus. The ideas get introduced. The work gets done. The advice goes noticed. We consume, produce, and disconnect. The revelations occur at rest. The chase for the security of doneness makes us insecure. The bridge to certainty remains broken,…
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Weighing the good and the bad
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The brevity of good — it’s as if the shelf-life of positivity yields to the durability of the negative. Pessimism turns the world upside down to the point that the Earth’s emotions feel flat. How do you wake up and shake up the good vibes? First, you come to expect that the future will be…
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The plasticity of negative types
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The negative patterns punch with more frequency — how else do they supersede positive thoughts? The gloomy preset spells doom for mental states. Even worse, the emotional wires get tripped up in knots of ruthless avoidance; only if we could think ourselves better to project and attract the magnet of our desires. People inherit the…
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On the move
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The synchronization of the clock, cooperation, and ideas depend on a type of balance and life force. Time, for instance, is manufactured. Coercion is natural; cooperation is artificial. Ideas lean on a person’s capacity to act — whether in theory, or real life, the potential for realization is encouraging. Anxiety is dizzying enough. She who…
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Slow is uncomfortable
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Patience is scarce. It’s uncomfortable too be slow. The brain favors fast consumption and impulsive creation over a calm, tortoise-y pace. We are the products of our attention, dabbling, doing, taking away nothing of significance. Internet culture emphasizes moving on to the next one as fast as possible. The pause, whether it’s enforced in the…
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Enjoy the silence
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Silence is the loudest sound — unprovoked, it can screech worse than nails on a chalkboard. But the pursuit of distraction is man’s attempt to escape the cacophony of a deaf monkey mind. To break from mental prison, we conjure up an oasis of sound: social media and/or TV, dual screens, infinitely scrolling through feeds…
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The channel surfer
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The mind, that jumpy thing. Scatterbrained, we wade through the attention waves only to catch the most glaring one. Whether we can ride it out or instantly collapse depends on the current of luck and skill. Less the undertow scare us with malicious intent, the body resurfaces to indulge in playfulness all over again. The…
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Without a positive doubt
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Thinking is the process of juggling with active uncertainty. Thinking is hard because it requires the mind to search for clarity in a sea of indifference. The mind impedes itself, as it’s the source of all the information we seek to find. It is nearly impossible to control; the brain elides into a blob of…