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The “U.S.A.” and its states and counties are arbitrary and inaccurate impositions on what is really here.
Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
Balance between ability level and challenge: The activity is neither too easy nor too difficult. A sense of personal control over the situation. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so action is effortlessness. A lack of awareness of bodily needs. Absorption: narrowing of awareness down to the activity itself.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
Marcus Aurelius had a version of this exercise where he’d describe glamorous or expensive things without their euphemisms—roasted meat is a dead animal and vintage wine is old, fermented grapes. The aim was to see these things as they really are, without any of the ornamentation.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
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