Fire & Motion 16

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Organisms in nature have survived and thrived for three and a half billion years, and they've done it without any kind of planning or predicting, or anything that we spend so much of our time doing.

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📄Demanding and Supportive

Most people think of demanding and supportive as opposite ends of a spectrum. You can either be tough or you can be nice. But the best leaders don’t choose. They are both highly demanding and highly supportive. They push you to new heights and they also have your back.

What I’ve come to realize over time is that, far from being contradictory, being demanding and supportive are inextricably linked. It’s the way you are when you believe in someone more than they believe in themselves.

📄The Real Magic of Rituals

A healthy heart does not beat evenly like a metronome. When we have a heart rate of 60 beats per minute, this does not mean that our heart ticks exactly once every second. Rather, it means that all the slightly different periods between each two successive beats average out as one second. This variance in the timing between beats is known as heart-rate variability. When it is high, the nervous system is more balanced, and the body is better able to respond to changing circumstances. But when we are stressed, this balance is disrupted and the heart beats in a more rigid way—it has low variability. As a result, the body maintains a state of high alert, which is experienced as anxiety.

Studies show that, when people experience uncertainty and lack of control, they are more likely to see patterns or regularities where there are none. These patterns can range from visual illusions (such as seeing faces in the clouds) to seeing causality in random events and forming conspiracy theories. Under these circumstances people are also more likely to turn to ritualized behaviours. This is known as the compensatory control model: We compensate for lack of control in one domain by seeking it in another. Whether this sense of control is illusory is of little importance. What matters is that ritual can be an efficient coping mechanism, and this is why those domains of life that involve high stakes and uncertain outcomes are rife with rituals.

Regularities (or uncertainty, otherwise) is constant in a given system, so people tend to seek it in different discipline when it's in shortage. Also, to notice that when seeking regularities in improper domain, irrational behaviours or false illusions may occur.

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🎥大象席地而坐

你能去任何地方。可以去。到了就發現，沒什麼不一樣的。但都過了大半生了，所以之前得騙個誰，一定是不一樣的。我告訴你最好的狀況，就是你站在這裡，你可以看到那邊那個地方，你想那邊一定比較好，但你不能去。你不去，才能解決好這兒的問題。

🎥日日是好日

人世間的事物可歸納為「立刻就理解」與「無法立刻理解」兩大分類，能立刻理解的事情，經歷一次就夠了，無法立刻理解的事物，就花上很長的時間，一點一滴，慢慢去理解。

🎥比海還深

我這個年紀還沒有愛過比海還深的東西。

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