October 16th, 2021
- > Keeping the size of the House stagnant for 110 years has had some large downsides. As the population of the country grew, the number of people represented by each Member of Congress has as well. Currently each Member of Congress represents roughly 763,247 people.
- I mentioned PCT to someone and they named "ecological psychology"
- someone also pointed at this Gap & Gain model
- > I showed him that he was defining his success by mea-suring where he was—the goal he had achieved—against the ideal he had set out for himself. I said that the distance between his goal and his ideal is “The Gap.”
- the gap is important for motivation, from a PCT perspective
- but if you define your success by that, then you're making a fundamental confusion
- > Our ideals are a lot like the horizon in this way. They’re useful to us to figure out a direction and to plan a destination, but you can’t reach your ideal any more than you can arrive at the horizon. No matter how far you’ve traveled, the horizon will always be far off from where you currently stand.
- this might be useful for whatifitweregoodtho.com
- mostly git based but also uses netlify for some reason
- whoa! & utteranc.es can be used for comments
- wtf is stream entry call w Romeo Stevens
- certain things stop being confusing
- subject-object shift
- the suttas are pretty clear
- so much going right, you have no idea
- convo:
- impermanence
- unsatisfactoriness
- not-essentially-controllable
- (but all the good true stuff still good & true)
- concentration, wholeness, tranquility, unity
- awareness of flow without getting kicked out of it
- trusting the wisdom function
- bodhicitta
- = the function we have that's more aware of this awakening process than we are