An overview of topics I want to write about sometime soon

in

(the order is random, the list is probably not exhaustive)

  • Overwhelm

    • phenomenology/classification

    • Intervention (experiment)

    • Formalization

  • Seeing darkness; and what it means when I say 'It's okay'

    • narrative from the self vs detached narratives - phenomenology - stepping out of the spirals

  • Agency

    • recent (1y) changes and observations

      • rediscovering speech 1

      • rediscovering speech 2

  • Game theory and communication:

    • Social reality vs Baseline Reality (include conceptual drawings)

  • 'Uncomfortable situations' and rapid inoculation (building up resilience) [unsure]

  • Bugs mapping:

    • recent insights into my personal bug-ecosystem

    • Different levels of depth

  • Social interactions and authentic relating:

    • Social manager (SM), Nora-felt (NF) and authentic relating

    • The ‘relating paradox’

    • Recent shifts and insights

    • Emotional maturity, and maturity in relationships

    • Communication culture vs codes of interaction

  • Mental flinching/distraction/craving:

    • Experiment with using (too much) focusing

    • Model building: hypothesis and assumption; reflect on results/insights from experiment

    • Slipping sideways - what my mind does when it’s afraid or board or feels incapable

  • Focusing

    • Reflecting on the experiment, and exploring new insights (see above) ;

    • Personal interpretation and take on focusing

    • Update on the value of focusing

    • Where to use focusing and what prevents me from/how to get myself to do it (incl. experiment),

    • Creative Focusing (see: Agency Duck) and my use of language

  • Thoughts on transparency, honesty and self-transparency

  • Thoughts on narrative, self-image and identity

    • “non-identity is an identity“ (reflections on the past)

    • towards a beneficial usage of self-image?

  • TAPs

    • Experiment with usage, get better at it, how I can make it work for me (experiment and social accountability to give it a fair try)

  • Noticing

    • Test interventions to get better at it

    • model building/phenomenology (are they substantial differences depending on what I try to notice? implications on technique/mechanisms

  • Memorization skills

    • My intuitive technique, evaluated; other techniques

    • Overtraining (experiment?)

  • Status and human interaction

    • summary/reflection on ‘Improv’

    • exploring/testing hypothesis (conceptual, practical)

  • Thoughts on meta-ethics and moral uncertainty

  • Meditation practice

    • Reflections on regular practice

    • Reflections on retreats

    • Techniques /schools and what goals to have

    • Stoic reflections

  • Experiences with IFS, thoughts on multi-agent minds and predictive processing

  • Energy balance and Total Energy expansion

    • Exploring elements of peak-performance (?) and peak-well being

    • Increasing total energy levels (over the short and, especially, long term)

  • Productivity

    • Mapping, exploring and experimenting with my personal ‘productivity factors’: including things like working structure (focus work, light work, writing, reading, ...), meditation, sports, food, social interactions, thinking time, applications, (daily/weekly/monthly) reviews/checklists

  • Team/group rationality

    • Epistemic standards in groups

    • Behavioural patterns and roles

    • Collective truth seeking (methods for effective communication, double crux and paired model building)

    • Long-term strategic planning (concretely)

    • Long-term strategic planning: comparative advantages of a strong team

  • Communication

    • Levels of communication; and failure modes

    • Improving communication: experiences and experiments

    • Language and (inherent or not) ambiguity

      • related: how to deal with ‘living in different worlds’

  • Skills

    • Map of skills

    • thoughts on acquiring skills, and timing

  • Personal reviews

    • Loyalty, trauma and friendships in the extreme

    • Auto-sufficiency and vulnerability

    • What it means to live a good life?

    • Intelligence

    • Living in a group house (and moving)

Mont Soleil, December 2018 - On to new levels of clarity and inner peace

Mont Soleil, December 2018 - On to new levels of clarity and inner peace