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Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by makeitdouble » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

hprotagonist wrote: post #95

makeitdouble wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete. What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.

i am not quoting any of that

Sorry I got confused.

That quote might be half flying above my head, and it feels a lot like a caricature to me. I got through the original speech and it still doesn't resonate, but I'm also not a Kenyon graduate and don't share any of that background.

But I appreciate having been exposed to that corner of culture.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by hprotagonist » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 3:18 AM UTC

makeitdouble wrote: post #101

hprotagonist wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i am not quoting any of that

Sorry I got confused. That quote might be half flying above my head, and it feels a lot like a caricature to me. I got through the original speech and it still doesn't resonate, but I'm also not a Kenyon graduate and don't share any of that background. But I appreciate having been exposed to that corner of culture.

he’s being quite genuine. perhaps tragically so, considering.

being an american undergraduate has very little to do with it, or to my original point, which is that finding the transcendent in the mundane is a good idea.

Re: You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

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Post by lelanthran » Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 6:50 AM UTC

wholinator2 wrote: post #92

lelanthran wrote: post #81

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The white noise I listen to sounds exactly the same as the brown noise in that playlist. What's the difference?

The different "colors" of noise correspond to the altered frequency amplitudes of the random frequencies that make up the noise. White noise should be totally flat with an equal contribution of all frequencies. Brown noise has some of the highs rolled off. There's other colors like pink which have different characters. The nature of the sound is still noise. To an untrained ear it might be hard to detect the differen…

Thank you for that response.

The mynoise.net link is one that has never showed up when searching for white noise sites, so .. thanks :-)

(Either my search-fu is really that poor, or google really is that bad).