Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
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Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#2... "and bloom" is a key missing part of the title.
I find that 90% of the time the more you pay attention to something, the more interesting it gets.
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Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#4... "and bloom" is a key missing part of the title. I find that 90% of the time the more you pay attention to something, the more interesting it gets.
Reminds me of the Feynman quote “everything is interesting when you go into it deep enough” (or similar to that).
Which I think is related to what you’re saying. Looking more closely at something and paying more attention can both unveil what’s “beneath the surface”.
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#5Yes, exactly!! I use art-making to direct my attention in the same way:
> on the one hand, the kid shouting at the park is the latest fruiting body of an immortal superorganism that's older than dry land.
> on the other, they're sticky and smell a little like pee.
> my work helps me pay close attention like this. how can i experience a moment with the direct, fresh awareness that makes a good haiku?
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#6He's right, but he approaches it from the boring physical materialist perspective. Wrong level of analysis.
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Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#8... "and bloom" is a key missing part of the title. I find that 90% of the time the more you pay attention to something, the more interesting it gets.
Reminds me of the Feynman quote “everything is interesting when you go into it deep enough” (or similar to that). Which I think is related to what you’re saying. Looking more closely at something and paying more attention can both unveil what’s “beneath the surface”.
Never realized Feynman said that but have discovered it true myself.
Early on in my career, I thought a lot of technical topics wouldn’t be interesting. Especially things that aren’t new.
Yet, when one gets down into it, mundane things end up being quite interesting. Even unit testing!
Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#9... "and bloom" is a key missing part of the title. I find that 90% of the time the more you pay attention to something, the more interesting it gets.
Reminds me of the Feynman quote “everything is interesting when you go into it deep enough” (or similar to that). Which I think is related to what you’re saying. Looking more closely at something and paying more attention can both unveil what’s “beneath the surface”.
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Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#10That's the default mode network. People that struggle with anxiety and rumination, as per the author's second section, lack the endogenous mechanisms to interrupt the default mode network.