everyone is constantly overgeneralizing
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your experiences are real
- this, although I would probably phrase it slightly less strongly than "almost none of them" even tho it's kinda true... they do sort of imply that stuff, it's just that everyone is constantly overgeneralizing
March 18th, 2023
- NLP - I don't per se agree with this but it's interesting and I like how it references generalization - everyone is constantly overgeneralizing
- it's sort of one take on what's going on in the constructivism of Interface Theory of Perception
January 9th, 2022
- > It’s cool that 2500 years ago the Buddha figured out that we cause ourselves distress, because the mental models we carry around in our heads can never fully describe the world, like how a map always distorts the landscape it’s trying to depict.
But instead of being stretched or distorted spatially, our mental models replace impermanence and insubstantiality with permanence and substantially, causing us dissatisfaction and suffering in the process.
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - brain hemispheres coercion what is coercion? productivity scapegoat Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing Conversation As Medium make shared or different frames explicit shared train of thought do people naturally self-regulate how deep they're willing to go? commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets dream mashups Unlocking the Emotional Brain IFS partswork what might a healthy community look like? doing community well The Master and his Emissary intro left hemisphere right hemisphere Behavior: The Control of Perception Perceptual Control Theory Hemisphere DharmaChange doesn't just happenHemispheres & Self-improvement left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people Perceptual Control Theory control systems
- 0:39 - 5:15 - Does mindfulness help productivity? productivity Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing anxiety
- Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing
- 51:59 - 1:05:18 - How can we make quality conversations more widespread? much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly contradiction SimPol John Bunzl greet your thoughts with kindness self-trust self-validation everyone is constantly overgeneralizing
With Jonny Miller — Podcast with Jonny Miller Transcript › Outline of ideas discussed. (I'm M, Jonny is J)
- 1:17:54 - 1:35:18 - How do you wake yourself up from dream mashups? How do you interact with people projecting their dream mashups on you? Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere
December 23rd, 2021
- > Everyone should get to know someone well enough and long enough that, when that friend generalizes that all [men] are [x], you know for a fact that they are referring to like 3 specific guys.
And then realize that that’s what everyone’s up to.