I think you should do more of that. Just my opinion, of course.
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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.
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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)
It wasn't that she sucked. She's a natural!
It's what she became aware of.