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All I’m suggesting is that thinking of goals and systems as very different concepts has power. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system. That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
As artists, it is our job to draw down this information, transmute it, and share it. We are all translators for messages the universe is broadcasting. The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
If you get past the snickering, the exceptional popularity of the book is understandable. Beyond simple novelty or variety, this broader range of sexual experiences is giving people access to altered states that “vanilla” sexuality rarely does. To return to the “knobs and levers” of ecstasis, we know full-spectrum sexuality contains many of the same triggers that produce STER through meditation, flow states, and psychedelic experiences. Pleasure produces endorphins, but pain can prompt even more. The uncertainty of teasing, as Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky established, spikes dopamine 400 percent. Nipple stimulation boosts oxytocin. Pressure in the throat or colon regulates the vagus nerve,23 creating exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps, what Princeton gastroenterologist Anish Sheth memorably terms poo-phoria. “To some it may feel like a religious experience,” Sheth writes, “to others like an orgasm, and to a lucky few like both.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
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