"What we perceive as defective about ourselves, we also experience as loss"

"We need beliefs, but we jump to them too soon. I care less about what broad label you resonate with and more about what ensnares you, in spite of yourself."

Mostly I just love being able to rapidly share things on a platform I own, whilst accruing increasing interest over time.

good comparison

train loads of skills at once!

too prescriptive: going right to what you should do, no narrative flow

It’s becoming increasingly rare for people to have the attentional resilience to 1) tend their somatic and emotional foundations and 2) engage in deep, single-pointed work around their passions

destinational vs directional living. too many other ideas

practical piece. focused

good flow, strong message

some great prose & strong message. Your capacity for doing good is consumed by your addiction to feeling bad.

needs better holding narrative, slightly mixed

The hinge is small, but it can regulate the movement of something 100x its size and weight.

nice story, simple message.

liked original idea, but presentation is too trite

enjoyable rumination

It loses the narrow frame that makes it feel big.

Again, confronting the stress directly wasn’t required. You create space around it.

good point, could have better flow tho

like the idea, but this isn't a piece of writing

ok, too cutesy at end

muddled musings, but honest

VARG material. needs refining to bring out key point

VARG material: you can relax a little more. Vipassana is tight and interogative

Each time you get lost in rumination, you literally narrate and narrow yourself out of this natural state

don't like the word connoisseur but otherwise great

solid, but this is ooold

ruminating vs contemplating and the over-dependence on propositional knowing

"changing the tone of your being"

great idea, needs more work

good story, but has an AI feel. also wrong title

To no longer cram reality through your judgement sieve.

very resonant theme for me, although not sure how useful list format is to others

Everything is continually—yet partially—revealing itself. You can never know something “all at once.” The conversation never concludes.

honest, fun to write

the problem is not the movement. The problem is the fixation.

honest intro: a response to an overwhelming world

a set of ideas to help us skilfully navigate the depths. A holistic rigour. we need more folks fluent in this weirdness

candid + Every time I try to cram [my interests] into labels like spirituality, psychology or philosophy I feel like something is lost.

But each time I was shown a way forward by increasing contact with what was already happening... Contact didn’t mean resignation: each time I increased self-contact, it gave me a richer appreciation of where I was

understanding why practice is essential tells us something critical about human nature... This opens many doors to experiencing reality more fully and accurately.

Perception is not an inert physiological process: it is active, living and constructive.

see people experience so much stress through trying to attribute all their thoughts and actions to one unchanging self

good ideas, needs more development

too middle, needs more edge

too short. one of the most powerful responses to a shallow culture is to recognise a radical depth in yourself

love this idea, don't love the ending

important idea, like the framing against secular & religious dogma, poor execution

jumped to theme of practice

great personal framing, muddled conclusion

acceptance often represents the first real agency we have

muddled middle but powerful idea

could be a 5 with simplification

needs editing, stronger points buried

strong but wavers into other ideas towards end. "And so, when we overuse these words, they actually make us smaller than we are."

good idea, too gpt-ish execution

a way of announcing the answer before you’ve asked the question... What I care about—and what I write so much about—is the merger of these two areas: the intellectual and the inner.

good ideas, cheap expression

enjoyable, funny, meandering

great idea, needs more words

important idea, needs more work

love the framing, needs to more work

The issue is that this way of seeing yourself eclipses everything else. You become addicted to being a better tool. Praise, achievement and attainment become signs that you’re performing well.