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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

To continue this thread: Before I started going to the gym, I think I had this idea that life should never actually really feel uncomfortable without a reason to me. https://t.co/H5xIQCmpA1

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Before I started going to the gym, I think I had this idea as nerd me that life should never actually feel that hard or uncomfortable. And if it was, something was wrong. It’s . . . a hard idea to explain. But I’ll try. https://t.co/sEtOepPlhN

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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Meanwhile, on the days I do go the gym, it’s like my body just grasps this is the way the world works, and has no particular hang-ups about this is or isn’t the way the world should work.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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There’s a sort of embodied understanding that the work in life *is* doing. It’s not just about “theoretically being able to send the email.” It’s actual taking out of the trash that is the work. https://t.co/EEr6dLaLsO

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

I had a problem with doing. I only respected problems where I to think, and solve, and once I figured it out, it would be done. So when it came to things like chores, showering, walking between places, there was always a slight kind of dissociation. https://t.co/b6MBLR9krS

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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It’s not just about introspecting hard enough while novelty, mastery, and competition still feel like intellectually-compelling factors to work out. It’s learning what it means to work out beyond them, past the point where there is some sort of novel, solving-based reason. https://t.co/DWGsHZJaGD

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

It’s like Bay Area rationalist/adjacent circles have this idea that outside of motivating things like novelty, mastery, and competition, life shouldn’t feel hard, and if it does, something is very very wrong; maybe I could fix it with introspection. https://t.co/VbXANgrBoI

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵. 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 something like that. when working out, there’s a sense of intuitively understanding that. when im with this reality of things, the rest of the day feels more easeful and amenable

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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without it, i don’t understand why any of this is happening. i “know” how to do all my to-dos and projects. i somehow feel frustrated that just because i know how to do them doesn’t mean they’re done

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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when i go to the gym, it’s instead like: “oh, knowing doesn’t matter. there’s just what’s done and what’s not done! what do i want to do next?”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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there is only “what is done” and “what is not done.” no “what i know how to do” and “what i don’t know how to do”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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i keep trying to explain the below idea and getting distracted by other things here it finally is https://t.co/vx7ycvS05S

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Starting the gym every day is about starting in war mode. It’s not about motivation, or exercise; it’s something else. It’s slipping into an embodied knowing: https://t.co/fSl1cwlI7t

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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@Malcolm_Ocean you might like this all this is a mountain of threads built on this one thing you once said https://t.co/iVkKcgKSI5

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 5 years ago

still kinda pissed that it takes *time* to do things

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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with some pretty similar conclusions https://t.co/DxHiBzZSIj

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

the real world here standing in for - doing things (vs solving problems) - emotional world (cannot solve, just feel) - social world (cannot solve, just disconnects further) - the real world (any perceptual, non RH experience at all)

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