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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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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Domestic emotions are limited in space but also in time to +/- 1 generation.
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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.pic.twitter.com/zgN34Efe0p
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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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Unless you're willing to make the whole thing circular -- junkies and people doing Free Solo climbing are the most successful, by definition, because they're feeling the purest emotions or whatever.
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