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Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
One of my most important is the mantra “coming alive over getting ahead.”
The Pathless Path
Paul Millerd
Time-outs are particularly interesting. Mental models don’t include emotions (though they may include beliefs about emotions, like “I am angry”), but their momentum is coupled to emotions (you remember where you were during 9/11 because the emotions gave your throwaway mental model of your surroundings enough momentum for life). Waiting drains emotions from situations and associated mental models, thanks to drag from other mental models and emotionally neutral stimuli. Powerful emotions subside. Time-outs are not always reliable though. Waiting might actually give you time to reason through and discover more things that upset you, leading to a “getting angrier and angrier” effect.
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