Vipassana meditation
"to see things as they really are... observing your thoughts and emotions as they are, without judging or dwelling on them" -- healthline.com.
By request
Havening
by request: "Self-Havening practice to reduce anxiety, enhance wellbeing, and develop compassion and loving-kindness."
feeling pressured to do something you don't want to do
Priority request.
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours -- wikipedia.
Nocatee, FL
Priority request: Rated the best master planned community in Florida for families with many conservative families residing there.
enjoyment
request: maybe not the same as joy (cal. 540)?
Owen Benjamin
He was a stand-up comedian and actor who had roles in mainstream film and television between 2008 and 2015... In 2019, he was banned from several mainstream social media platforms for violations of their policies, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube -- wikipedia.
David Buss (academic contributions of)
Priority request: An expert on human mate selection, Jordan Peterson likes him. "American evolutionary psychologist ... he is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology." - Wikipedia
surrendering something we want in the hopes of then being able to receive it
Hope suggests an incomplete surrender, yet the result is still positive.
Joel Osteen
Megachurch pastor calibrated as a spiritual teacher.
Twitter / X
"Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media websites and one of the most-visited websites" -- wikipedia.
"If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be suffering"
Priority request: An excerpt from "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
transactional thinking
Request: you expect something in return for your contribution in a short timeframe and if not, you will not provide your contribution.
T/F: other groups are also building on Doc’s work
Request: if so, how many?
extinction
request: seems a bit more severe than death... but maybe they're the same?