(FB 1548445730 Timestamp) “Q: CURT: DEFINE MINDFULNESS?” —“Could you please explain what “mindfulness” means in practice?”—Richard Hall In current vernacular, in psychology, the personality trait ‘neuroticism’ refers to tendency for anxiety, fear, moodiness, worry, envy, frustration, jealousy, and loneliness. In the current vernacular in cognitive science, psychosis and solipsism and ‘sensitivity’ refer to the feminine bias of inability to insulate self from perception. (Opposite of the masculine bias: analytic, aspie, autistic.) Use of ritual, repetition, regularity, familiarity, training whether physical verbal mental or situational – which today we call ‘cognitive behavioral therapy’ trains the mind to retain context rather than be continuously interrupted by inputs – particularly social inputs. The origin of organize ritual religion is the use of social and individual, prayer (christianity), movement (islam/christianity), cognitive ritual (buddhism), ritual( east asian), and discrete roles and responsibilities (hindu), to provide mindfulness. Of the methods that are most beneficial and least harmful ita ppears that stoicism (self authoring) is the optimum method of achieving this through life planning, since it depends upop precisely zero falsehoods, and CBT is use only therapeutically. Ergo History (myth), Biography (heroes), Festival (feast/holiday), Education (church), Oath (Ritual), Stoicism (self authoring), and cognitive behavioral therapy (repair), constitute the non-false equivalent of religion (for simple people) for the modern world (those of us no longer simple). To do so this program requires relative homogeneity of a polity.
Theme: Agency
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(FB 1548546747 Timestamp) —“Are you going to save the West?”—@mediocrecroat Seems a bit silly when you say it like that. All a man can do is the best he can do. So far I’m doing what I expected to. But it is opportunity and events that are of greater cause than those of us who prepare to seize them. No man saves alone – he is but a symbol of the legions of others who move in off tempo concert toward some combination of superior ends. 😉
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(FB 1548632780 Timestamp) We need more Eli Harman. There is no one better at the economics of behavior than Eli. And no one less timid in it’s articulation.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548819829 Timestamp) Just a reminder to inspire you. –“He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing”– By that measure, it is ours. it is our civilization. We must only exert control. This year.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548819829 Timestamp) Just a reminder to inspire you. –“He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing”– By that measure, it is ours. it is our civilization. We must only exert control. This year.
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1549033326 Timestamp) EXTREME OWNERSHIP: PROPERTY IN TOTO While its the same message as every other self help book, this one is in masculine prose, and uses ownership which is compatible with property in toto – and that’s why I chose it. via Simon Felden YOUTUBE.COM Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548972243 Timestamp) CURZON ON STRETCHINESS OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS by Andy Curzon I see IQ as the sixth personality dimension. Each one has a ‘stretchiness’, a trainability. 1 – Conscientiousness [the activity & in some cases overlapping into the agency dimension] (the most trainable of all the traits upwards although after 11-12 years old this becomes harder, and increasingly so into one’s 20s and 30s); 2 – Agreeableness [in some sense the agency dimension and separates men as disagreeable and women agreeable] (remarkably stable throughout life, although there are Kuhnian paradigm shifts [huge life-changing events or epiphanies usually] that slide extremely disagreeable people to the other end of the scale or vice versa [I might suggest more often than not through brain trauma/restructuring]); 3 – Neuroticism [the right hemisphere / threat perceiving / negative emotion dimension](immovable upwards in a similar way to IQ [we haven’t found a way other than drugs yet] and bad life events oft make neurotic people hyper-neurotic); 4 – Openness [the creativity dimension, highly correlated with IQ] (the most interesting in that it appears people can train only toward their side of the fence…open people can ‘open the doors of perception’ [to use a Huxlian term] and closed people tend to become even more specialised as they mature, but cases of Kuhnian shifts have not been documented afaik, but there are almost always exceptions); 5 – Extraversion [the left hemisphere / opportunity perceiving / positive emotion dimension] (low-mid range trainability either way but high reversion rate so training has to be maintained); 6 – IQ [pattern recognition] many things bring IQ down (smart professors not doing exercise for example) but nothing is known to raise it, yet. I don’t know if you’re on board with all that but the key is they were all statistically derived….as a parallel to English common law, rather than by ‘fiat’ like the Myers-Briggs. I find the six dimension extremely useful when profiling people.
( CD: I use male (compartmental) vs female (integrated) first. then the six dimensions that includes above, which then explains male-female difference in Factor TRAITS, including male vs female in IQ distribution as well. ) METHOD: Gender > Factor(dimension) > Trait (bias)
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1549033326 Timestamp) EXTREME OWNERSHIP: PROPERTY IN TOTO While its the same message as every other self help book, this one is in masculine prose, and uses ownership which is compatible with property in toto – and that’s why I chose it. via Simon Felden YOUTUBE.COM Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548991435 Timestamp) OWN IT – YOURSELF, YOURS, AND ALL COMMONS —“In short – take responsibility for everything, absolutely everything – and good things will happen. Don’t shift blame, don’t talk about how it is the situation’s fault. It is all on you – but in a positive way. This is not to mean that everything that goes wrong is because of you – it means that putting everything on your own shoulders makes good things happen all around. Even when things go badly, take the responsibility – and it makes it easier to deal with.”—-
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548972243 Timestamp) CURZON ON STRETCHINESS OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS by Andy Curzon I see IQ as the sixth personality dimension. Each one has a ‘stretchiness’, a trainability. 1 – Conscientiousness [the activity & in some cases overlapping into the agency dimension] (the most trainable of all the traits upwards although after 11-12 years old this becomes harder, and increasingly so into one’s 20s and 30s); 2 – Agreeableness [in some sense the agency dimension and separates men as disagreeable and women agreeable] (remarkably stable throughout life, although there are Kuhnian paradigm shifts [huge life-changing events or epiphanies usually] that slide extremely disagreeable people to the other end of the scale or vice versa [I might suggest more often than not through brain trauma/restructuring]); 3 – Neuroticism [the right hemisphere / threat perceiving / negative emotion dimension](immovable upwards in a similar way to IQ [we haven’t found a way other than drugs yet] and bad life events oft make neurotic people hyper-neurotic); 4 – Openness [the creativity dimension, highly correlated with IQ] (the most interesting in that it appears people can train only toward their side of the fence…open people can ‘open the doors of perception’ [to use a Huxlian term] and closed people tend to become even more specialised as they mature, but cases of Kuhnian shifts have not been documented afaik, but there are almost always exceptions); 5 – Extraversion [the left hemisphere / opportunity perceiving / positive emotion dimension] (low-mid range trainability either way but high reversion rate so training has to be maintained); 6 – IQ [pattern recognition] many things bring IQ down (smart professors not doing exercise for example) but nothing is known to raise it, yet. I don’t know if you’re on board with all that but the key is they were all statistically derived….as a parallel to English common law, rather than by ‘fiat’ like the Myers-Briggs. I find the six dimension extremely useful when profiling people.
( CD: I use male (compartmental) vs female (integrated) first. then the six dimensions that includes above, which then explains male-female difference in Factor TRAITS, including male vs female in IQ distribution as well. ) METHOD: Gender > Factor(dimension) > Trait (bias)