When we're in a new place, we've all wondered where the bathroom is. And the automatic answer that comes to mind is: "Down the hall to your right". But this isn’t always the case. In fact, most of the time, to know where the bathroom is, we have to ask again or go and find it ourselves. This seems like a good analogy for a space where I can only give you some coordinates.
The way to it, however, you will have to discover yourself. My role is only to channel different ways of seeing and explaining how we function. I present them to you and raise questions so you can find your own answers or at the very least, start to go out and look for them.
We all could agree that nowadays, attention is our best asset, meaning our time's investment.
Yes, we are in the era of the attention economy, if you didn't know already. And obviously, there’s a vast global industry dedicated to distracting us and exploiting our best resource: attention.
But framing distraction as a war between the individual and relentless capitalist
Based on Lisa Feldman Barrett decades' of research, it looks like emotions are not what we thought they were.
They are not universally expressed and recognized. You might feel that emotions are hardwired brain reactions, that your brain is prewired with mythical emotions circuits that you are born
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Is not the first time that James Clear and his book Atomic Habits pops up here, maybe because it is one of the best books I've came across that better synthesizes the essence of establishing New Habits and the nature of Behaviour
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We, as humans, desperately try to avoid boredom as if it was the black plague (or to be contemporary, the coronavirus).
We are scared to death of being bored, of having nothing to do, because, at the end of the day, we are terrified to spend time alone with our own thoughts.
While we keep busy escaping from that scary boredom, we forget to appreciate the huge repercussions
You tell me.
"Same thing as it's to you"..... Let me put that into question.
It is a feeling? A feeling of what?
I have several magnificent definitions of what freedom is to me, but all of them can be summarized by Nina Simone's definition (New York, 1968).
If you are curious about what she had to say, watch
If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it. Probably, that discomfort you’re feeling, and have been feeling for months now, is Grief.
