I might add, "become comfortable with uncertainty". Because nothing drowns you in a swamp of bullshit like an excessive need for certainty.
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That's the best way
There is the theory that we feel emotions first and then we think only to justify the emotion.
This would imply that it isn't the thinking that needs to be managed but the emotions.
Is it the intersection of 3 curves?
Am I being trolled?
It's funny because a girl put a boy down
What do you mean by "we"?
If we could do emotional memory transfer then we wouldn't need movies anymore.
Movies are an indirect way of evoking emotions.
Wait till you find out that they won't let you sleep. That'll really burn your britches.
Godzilla (Japan). In one zap of the breath weapon takes out 100,000 people. No pause for reflection or comment on the meaning of it. Just immediately cut to next scene.
We don't do that in USA
Immortal 2004. (A very kickass movie if you haven't) (French). Horus (The egyptian god) has this relationship with Nickopol (badass poet/politician). It's hilarious. Horus sees humans as at best children or pets or disposable tools. There's no aside or smirk or "yeah but..". No, they just go with it 100%. 100%! That's something you don't see too often.
What I'm asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?
I think that isolating oneself in a cave might be best.
Imagine an illusion, the matrix, built not of scifi machinery but of habit, maintained by the presence of others.
Get alone and the habits dissolve. And then the invisible becomes visible.