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Lulie Profile picture
@reasonisfun
Mar 2, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Make life hard in only fun ways.
This is part of a broader point that suffering and hardship *is bad* and destroys the growth of knowledge.

suffering = being thwarted in some way
The overwhelming majority view is that going through hardships breeds growth and strength.

The opposite is true. People can only grow in spite of pain, not because of it.

#ReasonIsFun
An apparent counter is people who have a lazy complacent life. But this when the hardship has been so internalised that deviating from one's coping mechanism is unthinkable.

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Lulie Profile picture
May 18
How I personally made more thoughts thinkable:

🧵
1. I got out of my own way by learning the Nobes-Alexander Technique.

It is literally about being open to new information and choices.

It makes more thoughts thinkable by teaching you how to change from task-completing mode to creative-flow mode.


lulie.co.uk/alexander-tech…
2. I learnt to access inexplicit knowledge via Gendlin Focusing.

This meant my explicit thinking could talk to my subconscious drivers, it de-mystified my mind, and it made emotional ideas updateable.

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Lulie Profile picture
Apr 27
The reason self-love is difficult for so many is that there is a confusion about what the self is.

(Also it’s required for fallibilism. Read on.)

We think our conscious explicit thinky part is our ‘self’. But the voice in the head is often not very kind to us!

1/
There’s a bit of us that’s basically always talking to itself.

This is different from the more fundamental thing that we are.

Deutschians call it the creativity program.
Meditators call it the space of awareness.
I might call it one’s sensorium.

It’s all of these. But…
2/
The important thing is that there is a felt sense of it. An experience of what it’s like.

If you put on an act right now, act fake with yourself, that feels a certain way.

If you drop the act, that feels like something else.

We often have a bit of this act up by default.

3/
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Lulie Profile picture
Apr 12
The most important concept I’ve found in the philosophy of flourishing (aka psychology) is 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Other terms for this:

tanha, end-gaining, resistance, avoidance, being ‘grabby’, clinging, stasis, compulsion

You can be fixated 𝘵𝘰 or fixated 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺-𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮.

1/
Fixation is when you don’t want to look at something.

Often, this results in redirecting attention to something else — typically so fast that you don’t register it.

(Since if you register it, you might look!)

2/
Stasis can exist as a psychological state in a variety of ways.

3/
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Lulie Profile picture
Dec 10, 2023
There is a skill of how to access information from your emotions.

Most people don’t know how.

They literally cannot read their feelings, in the same way that illiterates cannot read words.

Intellectuals are often illiterate *plus* deny it’s possible to learn to read.

1/
I learnt this skill even exists as a thing in 2018.

(CFAR introduced Gendlin Focusing, then I heard the body is practically relevant to emotions ~somehow~, and that intellectuals like me have a blindspot about that. Humph!)

Sucked at it for 2 years.

2/
I found Gendlin Focusing very difficult at first.

First, it was hard to find sensations in the body at all. Or I’d catch one and it would flit away.

Words dominated my mind instead.

Then, the only way I could hold on to a feeling was intensify it until it was overwhelming.

3/
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Oct 24, 2023
Never mind particular frameworks, what are some the most fundamental concepts and skills for happiness and free thought?

Thread on some I’ve found
👇

[P.S. You can see why it’s hard to claim one framework will solve all your problems.]
1. Ability to think any thought, rather than have your mind flinch away from it.

Found in…
- Buddhism: equanimity
- Art of Accomplishment: impartiality; non-resistance
- Alexander Technique: expanded awareness
- Karl Popper: non-authoritarianism
- TCS: non-coercion
2. Not having your conscious explicit mind interfere with your subconscious inexplicit mind.

Found in…
- Alexander Technique: non-doing
- Kahneman: System 1/System 2
- write drunk edit sober
- life-threatening sports like BASE jumping
- improv
- Ian McGilchrist’s whole deal
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Oct 23, 2023
A lot of people think introspection is unusually error-prone, subject to confirmation bias and making up stories, with no way of being verified or refuted.

This is false—if you have the right instruments.

1/
There are multiple ways to verify/refute introspective conjectures.

The most foundational is Gendlin Focusing.

(It can be learnt in 70mins via the audiobook Focusing by Eugene Gendlin. Though it may take some practice. The book includes a guided session.)

2/
In Focusing, when you find a story (word or image) that is accurate to how your psychology is set up—or genuinely solves a problem you have (indicative of there being real problem in the first place)—you get a “felt shift”: a physically felt sensation of “yeah, that’s it”.

3/
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