I think this is a sort of core action concept confusion and that a bunch of actions are ultimately self-defeating for being of this kind: aiming at something they *logically* cannot achieve.
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Another example is “How to become a writer?” You can’t act on it. You can only write. There's no “become a writer” action that you can take such that you become a writer. You write, and then you’re a writer. You weren’t before. So now you’ve become one. You can’t *do* becoming.
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The original concept is also confused: where I was most doing whatever I felt like is where most things happen. I don't need to make them happen: mere being is active! It has *as a consequence* that things get done! Not as a goal!
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Thus it is conceptually possible for something to get done without being actively done *by*. There is an extra square. This move https://brianlui.dog/2018/05/19/dimensional-decoupling/ … by
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A similar conceptual confusion is the the doing and not doing vs doing and doing-not and neither-doing-nor-not-doing that
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I think these experiences have a distinct phenomenology: - deadening of activities - pressure - space diminishing
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The deadening is the original robbing the joy of spontaneous acting
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The pressure is *time* pressure. Feeling behind, or overwhelmed, as opposed to being on top. Living by the clock instead of losing track of time. Felt time abundance vs felt time pressure: I have more than enough time to do everything vs THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME!!!
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Spatially it feels like being TRAPPED or CAGED. Other good words are oppressed or clustered or coerced or frozen or immobile or immobilised. As if one were being physically squished.
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The secret is to find your own internal stability. Then, then the time is right, you to not lash out to make your market on the world, the action happens all by itself (to paraphrase bruce lee, and the tao.)
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the constant compulsion to turn "play"-type things into "work"-type things and then they're not as fun any more.
Practising self-compassion helps, but I'm not good at it yet
Like, what am I afraid of? Why can't I just play?