The mental model for "lessons" is also unusual. When I sit down to meditate, I don't think of myself as "taking a lesson"—I'm sitting down *to meditate*. Yet the sessions actually do include authored lesson-like content! Contrast this to the experience of a cell biology class:
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In a typical class, lessons are the focus, and activities are clearly both secondary and subservient to the lesson content. Going to a structured cell biology lab, you don’t think “I’m gonna investigate cellular biology”; you think “today’s lesson is a lab instead of a lecture.”
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The inverted framing of the meditation lessons ("I'm going to meditate and incidentally hear some instruction" instead of "I'm going to listen to a lesson and incidentally meditate") is powerful because it turns the lessons into *actually doing the thing*.
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Team sports and things like Peloton have a similar vibe: the mental model is "I'm gonna go play soccer," but the coach does may actually have a lesson in mind. More:https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2LoRpSoo5Un8EbqkZEjJjvjM1BYLLQD1VJM …
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Great point here. I agree—I think the answer is no. One potential reason: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zScaFc6MhijMiEBDhumEXFWiuJ8o4eYX7FpH …https://twitter.com/an1lam/status/1256283770635812864 …
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Within the Wires tells a story in the form of meditation tapes. At least, for the first season.http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires/
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So true! It also engenders us to create a habit in a way that making the ‘learning’ primary never will, right? Few people are going to say “I’ll listen to a ten minute lecture before bed every night” but that’s what they’re doing when they habitally turn on the Daily Calm.
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This is the "quibi" I could buy into
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I can think of electronics and signal processing classes that can do it in terms of lessons structured around projects. But currently they are not done that way.
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Guided meditations are neat! But sometimes ya gotta venture into the subconscious by yourself. Experience raw experience as it is, without any external influence or framing.
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