Good evening, dear frens,
I wondered if any of you also strives to get an overview about the different mindset one might encounter or actively trigger throughout the day, and sort and strengthen the good ones?
Lately I have managed to rediscover some mindsets I had cultivated as a kid. This is great, because if they had stayed hidden, the cause of their "lockdown"(so to speak) would be something that unconsciously would prevent me from reaching personal growth and also that sweet tranquility in everyday life.
>𝔈𝔱 𝔡𝔦𝔵𝔦𝔱: 𝔄𝔪𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔬 𝔳𝔬𝔟𝔦𝔰, 𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔦 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔦 𝔣𝔲𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔰, 𝔢𝔱 𝔢𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔦 𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔲𝔱 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔲𝔩𝔦, 𝔫𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔫𝔲𝔪 𝔠œ𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔲𝔪.
I had a new realisation while riding my cool new bicycle. The previous owner had installed additional handlebars so that you can sit on it almost upright (very nice for my back as well), and since the whole bike is pretty high to begin with and transmits the energy very efficiently, it sort of feels like I'm riding a mythical creature, zooming through the city almost by magic.
Of course this reminded me of my childhood in several ways: The excitement of learning a skill and going somewhere new (I liked to pair this with fantasy make-believe about mythical creatures) , but also the excitement of having a cool thing that enables me to do stuff better.
The latter was buried somehow (I guess because of bullying related to new stuff, or maybe my tendencies to clumsily break everythtI own and learning not to get too attached through things). And so I lost contact to the intrinsic joy those things bring.
Now, that I rediscovered the mental stance and image of experiencing this cool stuff, I immediately thought of my quest of mindset integration, and tried to put it somewhere and blend it in, that is: make sense of it in connection to what I do all day.
And because I have discovered and/or created quite a few easy patterns that I use each day, I immediately found several ways to connect it and brush the edges over so that it might be experiences more often and help me with my goal for energizing myself. :3
Meditation and prayer would play quite a big role in there since they would be very idealistic, objectively positive, and supposedly regular cornerstones of daily life, and could be used as pillars to pull your preferred mindset connections up again and again (and also purify them). I should practice them more often.
What are your favourite mindsets, and what do you do to untangle them across time?
Bernd
2020-09-30 17:04:51 ⋅ 4y
No. 103010
I don't find myself thinking about my mindsets all that often, as I am pretty busy. I'm not super in touch with my mind, so what I consider a mindset might not actually be a mindset.
Anyway, I enjoy delving into new patterns of thought, usually relating to the maths or sciences.
For example, sometimes I'll decide to think about certain situations / topics axiomatically--applying arbitrary rules, and seeing what I derive from them. This is quite fun, especially when I extend these rules to things such as world building.
Another fun pattern of thought is recursion. I think for people, it's not common to think of actions / topics as recursive. We tend to see things as an iterative process, so switching my thought pattern from iterative to recursive is a big shock. At first it seem so strange that the entire thought process depends on absolute confidence in a base case, but as you continue to think recursively, it becomes natural.
Idk, I guess I write a lot of code, and my brain says "oooh that's neat"
Bernd
2020-09-30 17:28:08 ⋅ 4y
No. 103011
>>103010
> For example, sometimes I'll decide to think about certain situations / topics axiomatically--applying arbitrary rules, and seeing what I derive from them. This is quite fun, especially when I extend these rules to things such as world building.
Explain pls
>Another fun pattern of thought is recursion. I think for people, it's not common to think of actions / topics as recursive. We tend to see things as an iterative process, so switching my thought pattern from iterative to recursive is a big shock. At first it seem so strange that the entire thought process depends on absolute confidence in a base case, but as you continue to think recursively, it becomes natural.
That's a cool idea, almost magical though, because it implies that whatever incentive you choose to set consciously might recursively gain more and more effect in the world. 5/5 will try out!
Bernd
2020-09-30 18:03:46 ⋅ 4y
No. 103013
>>103011
So what I mean by axiomatically is sort of like a rewriting system, where you start out with a couple of basic rules / algorithms, / ideas and then come to crazy conclusions by following those rules.
So, for example, think of chirality: what if instead of favoring bilateral symmetry / reflections over 1 axis, the universe favored triradial symmetry? What if molecules were reflective over a radius instead of an axis? How would this restrict molecule formation, and how would this impact the chemical reactions needed to create the first self-replicating molecules? What would this mean for physics? For oscillatory behavior? How would things oscillate if sine waves weren't symmetric to an axis, but symmetric to a radius?
I guess a lot of it is just questioning and hypothesizing, but it's still fun to think about what kind of strangeness a perturbation in a slight rule could have on everything.
Bernd
2020-09-30 18:53:53 ⋅ 4y
No. 103014
>>103013
I don't know what would be in any of these cases, but it sounds interesting and exciting.
Guess I'm to 89iq for that mindset
Bernd
2020-09-30 20:30:49 ⋅ 4y
No. 103020
Well, I wouldn't call it my favorite mindset or anything highbrow:
I have taken the final step into full misanthropy after realizing people in general don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves or their kids. The blatant ignoring of corona guidelines, wearing masks and hygiene and such, is rage inducing. I have worn a mask since March and been openly laughed at it for it. The mask never was for myself, I don't give a damn if I die from Covid, but infecting my family or strangers is a thought enough for me to suicide. I could not deal with the guilt of my parents or the neighbor's Pekka getting infected because of my actions.
Turns out nobody else cares, making my efforts null. I never thought I could feel aggression to my fellow man, I was taught since child to direct it at myself, so it's a new feeling of wanting to strangle practically everyone else without a mask in the crowded supermarket. This is new for me, I never thought I could be so full of hate.