You're weird π₯΄π
"It's fucked up when your mind's playin' tricks on ya."
βGeto Boys
> in my eyes | terrorist
::: It might feel like the stars are aligned just for you.
::: It might feel like crime is high.
::: It might feel like today's youth are lazy.
::: It might feel like the world is in moral decay.
::: It might feel like people named George are elderly.
::: It might feel like your neighbor is a terrorist. βοΈ
::: It might feel like unfamiliar people are weird.
Feelings are valid.
But feelings aren't facts.
- next time "We're not powerless."
- listening Mogwai "Hungry Face"
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The deep truth ββΛπΈ.β
> godspeed | unnerving
Certainty is a ghost, an illusion.
The theoretical physicist and mathematician Leonard Mlodinow co-authored two books with the late celebrity thinker Stephen Hawking.
That's impressive enough for a LinkedIn page.
But Mlodinow is also the sole author of two books about randomness, chance, and brain science, including "Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior."
- In it, Mlodinow describes how our two minds β the intuitive (unconscious) and analytical (conscious) β are flying a starship together but seeing different universes through the windscreens. They can't agree on navigation. π
Our minds convince us not to doubt ourselves even when we're obviously wrong.
We feel strongly that our feelings are right and feel unnerved when we don't feel strongly.
We experience reality individually and have a need to feel certain about our judgments and decisions. That's even when there are plenty of reasons to feel uncertain.
Influential psychologist Daniel Kahneman said in a 2017 interview:
- "The deep truth is that the world is much more uncertain than we feel it is. We see a version of the world that is simplified."
Leonard Mlodinow says we must learn to cope with the unsettling reality that we can't control everything and canβt be fully certain about anything.
Writes Mlodinow:
>> "Philosophers have for centuries debated the nature of 'reality' and whether the world we experience is real or an illusion. Modern neuroscience teaches us that, in a way, all our perceptions must be considered illusions. That's because we perceive the world only indirectly by processing and interpreting the raw data of our senses."
- next time "Conscious, aware."
- listening Buck Owens "Cryin' Time"
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