After brute-forcing my way through much of my life, after encountering numerous rough spots, I have come to believe the easiest way forward is not endless chains of mental gymnastics, but allowing myself enough space and uncertainty to intuit the answer, live it, and be it.
It may not make sense, it may evoke contrary data and countless arguments, but long-term, it works for me if no one else.
“The easiest way forward is not an endless chains of mental gymnastics…”
I have also just come to believe that improvement is all about mindfulness. The easiest ways we reach improvement are repetition and punishment. Think about the purpose of REPETITION, the more you engage in the same task, the more you do it over and over, the more alertness your brains receive during that task. And so the pathways for impulses are shortened, a form of mental shortcut is created. Think about the first man who thought,”For a car to move faster, it doesn’t need to be bigger.” In a cartoon I saw some months ago,titled The Dragon Prince (by the man who created Avatar: The last airbender), the sailor said, “After you are in the elements long enough, you’ll get a feeling of where the wind is and how it’s about to change. It’s like a connection deep in me bones.” Indeed, repetition is the profound way to improve.
As for punishment, scientists do know this, and they often try some things on rats. Here it is about (mental) expectation and result and the degree of correlation between the two, the great cognitive psychologist, Daniel Kahneman know this well.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Leave a reply to Julie Cancel reply