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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The range expands the further you go from home and expand your spatio-temporal horizons
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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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Not only is it kinda beautiful in itself, there's so much beauty in how it was made!
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Idyllic dateless
cozy mind’s eye flow
in spite of the stream
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Into the deep wide open
You throw your mind's edge
Understand, that unless
You see through the dullness
Of toxication
You won't be able to maintain
Your life's heed.
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What is the source of this piece of writing? Original language? Is it a part of a larger piece? It is interesting and I like it.
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Going through this a second time. It appears I have some catch up reading to do!





