That's fine, but you don't have to publish. The idea is just to keep the work up without getting too engaged in the unfolding disaster.
But don't take it from me. I am terrible at that.
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haha, it's good advice. I can still be productive, but do more writing, less getting angry at adverts and such like lol.
Writing long-form, stream-of-consciousness, is somewhat meditative for me
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It got truly bizarre in India writing that 100k in two weeks. At some points I was typing as I was thinking, and I would start a sentence not knowing where it was going to finish, only to see a key insight appear lol.
It was an uncanny kind of feeling. If one word.. flow?
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I have an annoying block in that I can tweet 50 tweets in an hour if I want, without thinking, but I can't bring myself to finish two pages if I'm not working very hard.
Most of the time, anyway.
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If I start something, I'll sit there and write for 16 hours and finish it.
But it happens so infrequently. Maybe three times in the last 6 months?
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Nope. I've tried meditation a few times. I like it even! But I seem to really struggle making it a habit.
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Sounds like you should try some really basic vipassana.
Then again, maybe you really shouldn't...
You'd be surprised what rears its head.
In my experience, overdeveloped concentration (vs. awareness) is almost always a compensatory mechanism.
(Assuming you're neurotypical, anyway)
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I made the mistake of trying to teach my wife some basic Theravadan insight meditation.
Bad, bad, bad idea.
(she has similarly overdeveloped focus)
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Between eight years with my wonderful, highly introspective, wife, and a lifetime of candor from my dad, I'd be surprised if there was much left to rear its head tbh. More to gain than lose, anyway! Cheers.
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Then it may just be a simple case of those things known as "bad habits". ;)
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