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I used to think limiting self-perceptions are mainly about beliefs. Putting yourself in a box made up of fixed mindset beliefs about yourself. Now I think the walls of the box represent emotional range. What you believe about yourself is a function of what you let yourself feel.
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Arendt’s taxonomy is useful for classifying emotions. Labor/domestic emotions: pain, bliss, joy, fear, compassion Maker/agora emotions: satisfaction, frustration, righteousness, happiness, sadness Action/polis emotions: exhilaration, terror, anger, vengefulness, poignancy
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Aesthetic and competitive emotions live on the edge between making and action. Artists and traders are almost-complete humans. Edge of being of homo faber. Not yet prepared to appear in public and be recognized as human and part of history, but willing to appear by proxy.
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Trying to get at the long-term emotional toll of domestic cozy, the cost of having a mind bound within ‘narrow domestic walls’ as Tagore called it.
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This is high-modernist idealism, but it gets at something deep. I’d like to see a cyberpunk/hacker sensibility postmodern-pragmatic GenX version of this poem. A $5 challenge.
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I don't think this is likely to go anywhere useful. I know a variety of accomplished people (at least measured by the money metric) and I don't see this as being a consequence of some sort of wider emotional range, more openness to exhilaration or whatever.
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