Michael systematizes 9/10 Life Satisfaction
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solving suffering at scale @PSHInstitute 🪷 happiness concierge (thru buddhist fetters/somatic practices) @9of10Labs my writing is not mental advice
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Fetters Fireside #3 is out! This time with @Zach__Lauzon, discussing his path to emotional fluidity through the first Five Fetters. A few topics: 🟢 the 10x bet on happiness 🟢 perceptual shifts from 'dropping the Self view' 🟢 the impact of contentment on professional
Fetters Fireside #2 is live! Today I have @Marc_insight on the pod to discuss the dropping of the first five Buddhist Fetters. The topics we’ve approached: 🔸how the meditative process changed the way he parents his daughters 🔸the 3 pillars of his avoidance-attachment cycle
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and this applies to all domains: making art, a career change, the social life you'd dream of you're suffering NOW for something that might NEVER come to pass anyway
CANNOT emphasize enough how many of folks' preferences are just aversions yesterday i spoke with a friend who "doesnt want to marry and have kids" and for the first one the real issue when asked, 2 questions deep, was looking silly and being looked at on the wedding day
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"i would be so unhappy if i got that THEN" my brother in Buddha, you're unhappy NOW for something you're imagining NOW, once again
CANNOT emphasize enough how many of folks' preferences are just aversions yesterday i spoke with a friend who "doesnt want to marry and have kids" and for the first one the real issue when asked, 2 questions deep, was looking silly and being looked at on the wedding day
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CANNOT emphasize enough how many of folks' preferences are just aversions yesterday i spoke with a friend who "doesnt want to marry and have kids" and for the first one the real issue when asked, 2 questions deep, was looking silly and being looked at on the wedding day
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sometimes you gotta collapse the social uncertainty function into variations of "those that mind dont matter and those that matter dont mind"
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i'm normal and i can be trusted with the keys to the algorithm
every week they should give a randomly chosen person full control of the algorithm
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was chattin with @nosilverv and for traumatic memories, short self-guided EMDR sessions have been really effective for both of us. what i dont have an effective answer for is 'disfunctional beliefs'. any of you got tooling that's close to deterministically efective for these?
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i find a lot of ideas shared in tpot are very niche-dependant to function but there's a lot of self-veiling and they end up being shared as "broadly-available"
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im not afraid of AIs with emotions but i kinda am fearful of AI aligners who deny theirs fr fr
"emotional theory in ai research" I collected takes from @ilyasut, @ylecun, @geoffreyhinton, @demishassabis and @RichardSSutton about emotion theories for AI research. @ilyasut: I read about this person who had some kind of brain damage, a stroke or an accident, that took out
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Noting Wheel for the ADHD inclined is getting a aesthetic uplift thank to my friend Ian
for ADHD meditators, sitting practice can feel like 1000 paper cuts, so here's a friendly practice: the Noting Wheel. simply cycles through the 5 senses as shown and become aware of their momentary content, for ~0,5-1,5s at a time. you can even do it while reading this. when
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you will have 10000 cravings and the quality of your experience will be determined by the relation to those that dont come to pass instead of those being fulfilled
i've read @IvanVendrov 'The Tyranny of the Marginal User' and cant stop thinking about writing 'The Tyranny of the Marginal Craving' but instead of 'why software gets worse' i want to write 'why happiness gets worse, not better, over time' the highlighted paragraph applies to
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i've read @IvanVendrov 'The Tyranny of the Marginal User' and cant stop thinking about writing 'The Tyranny of the Marginal Craving' but instead of 'why software gets worse' i want to write 'why happiness gets worse, not better, over time' the highlighted paragraph applies to
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the interview created a lot of "when are you doing the pilot study" questions and i'd like to point that waiting X months for this to happen is not the most agentic move for yourself you can start practicing now, the materials are there
turns out happiness is just a skill issue new episode with @Plus3Happiness on how to oneshot procrastination, speed run Stream Entry and reduce suffering by 90% links below 00:00 Welcome to The Metagame 00:09 How Michael reduced suffering by 90% 00:46 Frank Yang
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counterintuitively, the best time to work on suffering reduction is when you're happy and flourishing when you're going thru it, reactivity practice will seem silly instead of dealing with "real problems" but the challenges are made problems exactly because of your reactivity
the hardest thing for a human to be is proactive
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maximizing my bliss units per hour (warm coat, music in ma headphones, walk in my favourite park)
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checking twittor in the middle of the night just to see @nosilverv got beef😂
I usually port my stuff from Substack over, but this one has too many images. On Jhanas, Stream Entry, Reactivity, successfully (much) improving your baseline valence and how that changes things: https://t.co/K86f15bZNg
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interestingly, no-self makes both sides of the growth vs fixed mindset irrelevant
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the only way to 'have the cake and eat it too' is not to mind when the cake is not present
reactivity is a tactical error trying to pose as a strategic solution
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you can spam Self-inquiry and not focus on processing craving that much you can drop craving and not inquiry into some deeper conditioning around ethics and morality that much as well
When I wasn't on the path I was confused by realised people having sex scandals: shouldn't they be beyond them? Then I got on the path and found it relatable. But now I'm further along the path and find myself confused once again: shouldn't they be beyond them?
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