Paul Bokserman
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Life's long enough to cultivate inner peace and too short not to.
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The Simple Truth of Meditation
Meditation is simply a practice of intentionally focusing on, non-reactively accepting, and decoupling self-concepts from the space awareness inhabits. The mind relaxes when we stop injecting our desires, judgments, and egos into the present.
By Paul Bokserman3 years ago in Longevity
The Folly of Certainty
We may label people, places, and events as good or bad based on how they make us feel about ourselves. This cognitive bias, known as the Affect Heuristic, is a mental shortcut triggered by our nervous systems to project known patterns onto unknown phenomena so we can make snap decisions about complicated things. Emotions are such powerful motivators that they can con us into equating life with our stories of it.
By Paul Bokserman3 years ago in Motivation
Between the Forest and the Trees
It's easy to get lost in the trees while venturing through forests. A hike starting with excitement and the promise of scenic views can lose its magic as mosquitos emerge from the bog, and we spend ever more of our limited daylight passing what looks like the same cragged tree from a mile ago. We start questioning if we've been going in circles the whole time and getting no closer to the vista that inspired the journey at dawn, so we double down on our efforts.
By Paul Bokserman3 years ago in Motivation
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
DAOs are the modern manifestation of the democratic ideal, "for the people, by the people," on steroids. On one side of the governance spectrum is complete centralization. A small group of people make all the decisions, and everyone underneath can either go along or get out.
By Paul Bokserman4 years ago in The Chain
Happiness is Turtles all the way Down
I wrote of mastering the body-mind in my newsletter last month (all these ideas make more sense in order. I'll eventually edit this essay to include the whole picture, but why miss them as they come out? Join the journey to inner peace).
By Paul Bokserman4 years ago in Motivation
Spoiler: Lived Experience Feels the Same in Every Reality
I've been putting it off for decades, but I finally watched The Matrix. Cypher's decision to go back in a pod as a rich man intrigued me. I get it. He was tired of suffering through watery oats for every meal. After all, simulated steak tastes like steak.
By Paul Bokserman5 years ago in Motivation
Tick 🕗 tock 🕑
I'll assume you've heard somewhere that "time is an illusion." Indeed, time isn't metaphysically "here" like a pencil, but the cyclical patterns in front of mathematics are. Reality is a reiterating supercomputer with hardware beyond our mammalian comprehension.
By Paul Bokserman5 years ago in Longevity
To Err Is Human; To Edit, Divine
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By Paul Bokserman5 years ago in Journal
