(FB 1546043826 Timestamp) Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic Screening examination. The results showed that, on the average, a) pain tolerance decreases with age; b) men tolerate more pain than women; and c) Whites tolerate more pain than Orientals, while Blacks occupy an intermediate position. When the results of this study are compared with earlier work, it appears that, with increasing age, tolerance to cutaneous pain increases and tolerance to deep pain decreases.”—
Theme: Agency
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(FB 1546037060 Timestamp) —âAnybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.â â Robert Heinlein
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(FB 1546037060 Timestamp) —âAnybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.â â Robert Heinlein
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(FB 1546134314 Timestamp) I want to toss out that we are not only seeing stoicism, not only seeing the expansion of plot arcs, but also seeing the conversion of characters from pure archetypes to sets of archetype properties – in which I see the resurrection of our ancient gods – leaving the degeneracy of ideals behind us.
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(FB 1546200836 Timestamp) A QUOTE: THE PAINFUL TRUTH —“( 1 – The first question upon which all others depend is why not to suicide? One can choose cooperation with the world, conflict and competition with the world, or boycott of the world. Boycott means suicide. This choice is that of personal philosophy. 2 – The second question upon which all others depend is why engage in cooperation rather than boycott, free riding, parasitism, and predation? One can choose cooperation, predation or boycott of others. Boycott means suicide. This question is that of ethics. 3 – The third question is for the group, and one upon which all others depend is why engage in cooperation rather than boycott, or free riding, parasitism, and predation? This question is that of politics. 4 – There is only one reason for the strong not to kill, enslave, or enserf the weak and to take their land, their women and their things. And that is a condition of perfect reciprocity. For it is the only condition more rewarding and lower cost than predation. The fact that reciprocity is mutually beneficial is but an excuse the weak use to grant themselves the illusion of equality with the strong. For the strong it is only a matter of superior returns, not morality. This is the end result of the three questions of life, ethics, and politics. All others are comforting lies. 5 – One BEGS for Liberty by permission. One FORCES sovereignty at the point of a spear, tip of an arrow, blade of a sword, and barrel of a gun. That’s the difference between failed beggars for liberty and successful warriors for sovereignty. Eat The Weak. )”—-
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(FB 1546359506 Timestamp) NEURAL ECONOMY AND THE FEMALE MIND —“Women turn more conservative when they have children.”—Martin Or put another way, women evolved to carry a cognitive load, and will generate demand for that cognitive load, and the signals to reinforce it, in one way or another until they possess it. It makes evolutionary sense that women who don’t have children would express ‘care’ to all, then express it more exclusively to their children when they have that “inventory” to worry about (expend their caretaking energies). So women evolved to carry the cognitive load of caring about proportionality and caretaking almost exclusively (the young short term) while men tend to are about the full spectrum of moral intuitions equally (the tribe long term). Men demand a cognitive load, but it seems less open to substitution than women. Men, we always have the tribe to defend.
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(FB 1546350433 Timestamp) —“William Manchester developed an intense writing regimen that he adhered to for much of his life, often writing nonstop for up to 50 hours at a time. He described the experience as follows: “I would work all day, all night, all the next day, all the following night and into the third day. I would look up at the clock, and it would be 3:30 in the afternoon, and I would say, ‘Oh boy, I’ve got three more hours to write.’ I just loved it.”—
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(FB 1546350433 Timestamp) —“William Manchester developed an intense writing regimen that he adhered to for much of his life, often writing nonstop for up to 50 hours at a time. He described the experience as follows: “I would work all day, all night, all the next day, all the following night and into the third day. I would look up at the clock, and it would be 3:30 in the afternoon, and I would say, ‘Oh boy, I’ve got three more hours to write.’ I just loved it.”—
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(FB 1546377649 Timestamp) AGILE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT = STOICISM —“I’m starting a private group to discuss adapting Agile Software Development into Agile Personal Development in an attempt to inject #antifragility into lives, and thus the world.”—Jonathan Wilson Its stoicism. —-“Very similar, yes! I’d love some examples you can think of where Agile’s manifesto sounds like Seneca. @tferriss will be interested in this thread.”— Jonathan Wilson Agile manifesto simply tech application of universal frame. not unique. Common before industrialization. Continuous recursive progress with immediate feedback eliminates error early and cheaply, reinforces early and cheaply, and merely restates normal life’s epistemology. Expanding worldwide demand for stoicism. Abrahamism done as political religion. Only buddhists and Stoics solved mindfulness. Only stoics without mysticism. Iterative self authoring of goals and virtues substitute for ritual. But personal responsibility for it harder than public. ( fyi: Noah J Revoy )
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(FB 1546377649 Timestamp) AGILE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT = STOICISM —“I’m starting a private group to discuss adapting Agile Software Development into Agile Personal Development in an attempt to inject #antifragility into lives, and thus the world.”—Jonathan Wilson Its stoicism. —-“Very similar, yes! I’d love some examples you can think of where Agile’s manifesto sounds like Seneca. @tferriss will be interested in this thread.”— Jonathan Wilson Agile manifesto simply tech application of universal frame. not unique. Common before industrialization. Continuous recursive progress with immediate feedback eliminates error early and cheaply, reinforces early and cheaply, and merely restates normal life’s epistemology. Expanding worldwide demand for stoicism. Abrahamism done as political religion. Only buddhists and Stoics solved mindfulness. Only stoics without mysticism. Iterative self authoring of goals and virtues substitute for ritual. But personal responsibility for it harder than public. ( fyi: Noah J Revoy )