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writing
  • _my_writing
    • 5 Lessons From 2020
    • Diving Into The Wisdom Of Rapper-Philosopher J.Cole
    • Everyone is a teacher
    • Gift Yourself Some Silence
    • Learning to Watch the Mind
    • Take a Moment to Re-Assess
    • The (Regenerative) Collective Hypothesis
    • The Duty of Desire
    • This is it
    • To Reading Fiction!
    • Trading Money For Happiness
    • Turning the phone master into a beautiful servant
  • books
    • Book - 1Q84 - Murakami
    • Book - 12 Commandments For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life by Hanzi Freinacht
    • Book - A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine
    • Book - Absolute Tao - Osho
    • Book - Approaching Vajrayana - David Chapman
    • Book - Awareness - Anthony DeMello
    • Book - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage - Murakami
    • Book - Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Wahl
    • Book - Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
    • Book - Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson
    • Book - Eros - Plato
    • Book - First Person Singular by Murakami
    • Book - Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
    • Book - How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams
    • Book - How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
    • Book - Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
    • Book - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
    • Book - Letting Go - David Hawkins
    • Book - Men Without Women - Murakami
    • Book - Nobody wants to read your shit - Steven Pressfield
    • Book - Norwegian Wood - Murakami
    • Book - On Dialogue - David Bohm
    • Book - Spiritual Enlightenment - Jed McKenna
    • Book - Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
    • Book - Taoism by Alan Watts
    • Book - The Alchemy of Psychology - James Hillman
    • Book - The Island by Aldous Huxley
    • Book - The Listening Society - Hanzi Freinacht
    • Book - The Manual - Epictetus
    • Book - The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
    • Book - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson
    • Book - Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
    • Book - We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse - James Hillman
    • Book - Zen and the Art of Happiness
  • other_notes
    • Aerosol Loading
    • all solutions are at best temporary
    • Article - Meditations on Moloch
    • beliefs are immensely powerful
    • Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity metrics
    • biosphere stewardship
    • Books
    • both-and thinking
    • Buddhism
    • Buddhist Tantra
    • cascading risks
    • cathedral thinking
    • Chemical Pollution -Novel Substances-
    • choice-making
    • choose faith over fear
    • climate change
    • Co-ownership models
    • Cognitive Bias
    • Collective Decision-Making
    • Compersion
    • complex adaptive systems
    • complexity and finance
    • coordination failures - multipolar traps (Moloch)
    • Course - Patterns of Decentralized Organizing
    • Course - Planetary Boundaries
    • Course - Tools for Regenerative Renaissance
    • Daniel Schmachtenberger
    • Dealing with Pain in Meditation
    • dealing with the hopelessness of our complex situation
    • Decentralized Organizations
    • Decision Journals
    • Decision-Making
    • Default Mode Network
    • Detachment from results makes you more relaxed and better performing
    • Detachment makes you perform better
    • Earth carbon storage
    • Earth System Resilience
    • Ecosystem Services
    • emotions remind us of whats important to us
    • Emptiness
    • Enlightenment
    • epistemic humility
    • epistemology
    • everything is interconnected -interbeing-
    • Falsifiability
    • fear
    • Food Systems
    • food systems as key leverage point
    • form desire vs feeling desire
    • Forrest Landry
    • freedom to quit is freedom and power
    • Geological Ages
    • Goals in Spiritual Practice
    • Group selection theory
    • healthy clinging
    • Hell Yeah or No
    • human minds are awfully malleable
    • if we seek social status we give other people power over us
    • illusion of separation
    • just say yes
    • Manufactured demand kills market theory
    • Maps of Content
    • markets may not be the best structure for disruptive innovation
    • Meaningful Life
    • Meaningness
    • mechanistic view of nature
    • Meditation
    • meditation increases agency
    • Memetic Virus
    • mentally rehearse fears -negative visualization-
    • Metamodernism
    • Metta
    • Mindset
    • Move towards fears
    • narrating self and experiencing self
    • Negativity Bias
    • Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycle
    • Obsidian Tips and Tricks
    • Ocean acidification
    • Opening to the Deeper Current of Desire - Practice (Rob Burbea)
    • Ostrom's Framework to Managing Commons
    • Ozone Depletion
    • pain sparks growth
    • pitfalls of modern spirituality
    • Planetary Boundaries
    • post tragic
    • Practice Discomfort
    • process-relational worldview
    • quantification infuses a false sense of security
    • reductionism
    • Regenerative Agriculture
    • Resilience
    • Rob Burbea
    • Samadhi
    • Selfishness
    • sense-making
    • SES research
    • small actions change your self-identity
    • Social Ecological Systems (SES)
    • soil health is essential
    • SoulMaking Dharma
    • Sovereignty
    • Stability breeds instability
    • Stoicism
    • Systems Thinking
    • talking to ourselves skillfully
    • Taoism
    • Technology Is Not Values Neutral
    • the map is not the territory - misplaced concreteness -
    • the market only considers what can be priced
    • The Middle Path
    • the Universe is unfolding exactly as it should
    • there is enlightenment and there's what you do with it
    • There is no such thing as enlightenment
    • thinking about success metrics
    • tipping points
    • Tragedy of the Commons
    • Truth is never expressed in words
    • uncertainty in calculability shouldn't prevent mitigation action
    • ways of looking
    • What is the Self
    • what price are you willing to pay
    • your sangha should be irritating
    • your thoughts are not yours
  • papers
    • Article - A relational turn for sustainability science - West et al 2020
    • Paper - Adapting risk assessments for a complex future (2022) by Wassenius & Crona
    • Paper - Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norm - Ostrom - 2000
    • Paper - Food in the Anthropocene the EAT–Lancet Commission
    • Paper - Our Future in the Anthropocene - Folke 2021
    • Paper - Resilience as Pathway Diversity by Lade et al
    • Paper - The Blue Acceleration by Jouffray et al. 2020
    • Paper - Universal Ownership in Practice - Ellen Quigley
    • Papers - Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem by Nyström et al
    • Papers - Earth System Finance + Sleeping Giants
  • talks&podcasts
    • Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on Jim Rutt Show
    • Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on Lex Fridman
    • Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on The Portal with Eric Weinstein
    • Podcast - Deep(er) Ecology - Great Simplification
    • Podcast - Derek Sivers on the Knowledge Project
    • Podcast - Forrest Landry and Daniel Schmachtenberger on Neurohacker Collective
    • Podcast - Nate Hagens The Great Simplification with Daniel Schmachtenberger
    • Podcast - Perspectives with Daniel Schmachtenberger
    • Podcast - Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz - Jim Rutt Show
    • Podcast - Rob Burbea on Emerge
    • Podcast - War On SenseMaking - Daniel Schmachtenberger
    • Talks - An Ecology of Love - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Approaching the Dharma - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Beauty of Desire - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Emotional Healing - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Ending the Inner Critic - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Freedom From Fear and Anxiety - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Metta and Emptiness - Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee
    • Talks - Mirrored Gates - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Path of the Imaginal - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Practicing the Jhanas - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Questioning Awakening Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Samatha Retreat - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - The Art of Concentration Retreat - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - The Boundless Heart - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Theater of Selves - Rob Burbea
    • Talks - Views in Practice - Rob Burbea
  • Tao Te Ching
    • Tao Te Ching 1 - The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
    • Tao Te Ching 2 - Nonduality
    • Tao Te Ching 3 - Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place
    • Tao Te Ching 4 - The Tao is hidden but always present
    • Tao Te Ching 5 - The Tao doesn’t take sides
    • Tao Te Ching 6 - empty yet inexhaustible
    • Tao Te Ching 7 - The Master stays behind
    • Tao Te Ching 8 - Water nourishes all things without trying to
    • Tao Te Ching 9 - Moderation Balance and Non Attachment
    • Tao Te Ching 10 - Letting Events Take Their Course
    • Tao Te Ching 11 - Empitness and Non-Being
    • Tao Te Ching 12 - Thoughts Desires and Trusting
    • Tao Te Ching 13 - Success Appreciation Ego
    • Tao Te Ching 14 - You can't know the Tao but you can Be it
    • Tao Te Ching 15 - The ancient masters
    • Tao Te Ching 16 - Returning to the Source is Serenity
    • Tao Te Ching 17 - Invisible Leadership
    • Tao Te Ching 18 - When the Tao is forgotten
    • Tao Te Ching 19 - Morality
    • Tao Te Ching 20 - Stop Thinking and End Your Problems

Stoicism

Feb 21, 20261 min read

Attitudes

  • Focus on What You Can Control (Internal vs External) - select systems and processes not goals - Internalize your goals
    • Amor Fati

Practices

  • mentally rehearse fears -negative visualization-
  • Practice Discomfort
    • Move towards fears

Frugality

  • you can be happy with very little
  • what price are you willing to pay

Related: Philosophy

Stoicism and the Meta-crisis

  • Great article by Peter Limberg

Graph View

  • Attitudes
  • Practices
  • Frugality

Backlinks

  • Everyone is a teacher
  • Book - A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine
  • Book - The Manual - Epictetus
  • Move towards fears
  • Practice Discomfort
  • if we seek social status we give other people power over us
  • mentally rehearse fears -negative visualization-
  • what price are you willing to pay
  • Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on Jim Rutt Show

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