_Meaningness_, the book, is weirdly bimodal. It clicks for some readers; others find it nonsensical.
I'd like to test a hypothesis from @andy_matuschak: it makes sense to meditators.
Do you meditate? Does it make sense? (Please don't answer unless you've attempted to read.)
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It seems like the relevant difference might actually be - are you reading Meaningness for self-improvement? - or reading it to understand the world? I'm in the "understand the world" camp, and don't care about the self-improvements angles.
that doesn't seem particularly relevant to the shift i experienced. for me it was more like, before having various experiences in 2017-2018, i had no concept of what it meant to take meaning and meaning-making as object (in the subject-object shift sense)