- dismantling years of conditioning
- It’s all about perception.
- programming attention
- expert attention
- trusting yourself
Book recommendations
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- Sketching from Square One… to Trafalgar Square
- The Inner Game of Tennis7 =======
- Sketching from Square One… to Trafalgar Square
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- The Inner Game of Tennis
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- Improvise for Real
- Gendlin Focusing
- Divine Proportions - Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry
- This Is Water
Thread by @ejames_c how to seek feedback
The irony is that unclear feedback can sometimes be helpful, EVEN IF it makes skill acquisition slower. Why? Because it trains the student to do something more valuable: sense-making to figure out which bits of their experience actually matter.
if you reframe the training task as about transforming the way students SEE, then you naturally lean towards training exercises that give messy feedback, just like reality.
How does the brain remember what is important?
- access to unstructured learning environments in which children which bits of their experience are essential by listening to their feelings
- abstract thinking is not possible without learning to feel your feelings, sensing and feeling emotion
A Master Class in Jazz Performance and Creativity with Pianist Kenny Werner
- learn to touch the instrument without thinking
- attachment makes it difficult to let go
- hoping to play better < love and listen to what you are playing
Computational Public Space
Why are we here? Why do we inhabit a city? Can there be activities that are actually about making us deeper people, about learning and understanding and be able to contribute back to civic life?
Your Money or Your Life
Answering this question helps you develop an internal yardstick for fulfillment and in the process kick any unhealthy shopping habits. You may discover that you’ve been measuring your fulfillment, or lack of it, by what those around you have or by what advertising says you should want. Being fulfilled is having just enough. Think about it. Whether it’s food or money or things, if you don’t know, from an internal standard, what is enough, then you will pass directly from “not enough” to “too much,” with “enough” being like a little whistle-stop town. You blink and you’ve missed it. You will rarely have an experience of fulfillment. By diligently working with this question you will begin to identify, for yourself, an internal yardstick that you can use to measure how much is enough.
The primary tool for developing this internal yardstick is awareness. The affluence that surrounds us has been called the American Dream, and with good reason: we’ve been asleep. We wake up by questioning the dream.
Asking yourself, month in, month out, whether you actually got fulfillment in proportion to life energy spent in each subcategory ==awakens that natural sense of knowing when enough is enough.==
Having an internal yardstick for fulfillment is actually one part of what we call Financial Integrity. You learn to make your financial choices independently of what advertising and industry have decided would be good for their business.