HeyJaredJason Silva - SHOTS OF AWE
Exploring the psychology of transcendent experience, total aliveness, and personal transformation. Celebrating the healing power of AWE.
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Everything Is Relations (opens the original)
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I. A New LiteracyEvery transformative technology has demanded a new way of thinking. Writing reorganized thought as much as it preserved it — Plato worried in the Phaedrus that the written word would hollow out memory, and in a sense he was right; it simply gave us something larger and stranger in exchange. The printing press amplified systematic reasoning. The hyperlink taught an entire generation to think associatively. The smartphone externalized memory itself. Marshall McLuhan spent his care
People Say They Want Financial Freedom. What They Really Want Is Perceptual Freedom. (opens the original)
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Ask anyone chasing wealth what they’re actually chasing and they’ll tell you: freedom. Freedom from the boss, the alarm clock, the mortgage. Enough money that every expense is covered, carried forward in time, forever. Enough that any desire can be converted into experience on demand. Money as a universal API for wanting.And so they hustle. Founder mode. Deferred life plan. The spreadsheet that says: at this number, I’m free.Then some of them actually hit the number. And here is the dirty secret
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