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| Overall, this was really good although chapter 13 irritated the piss out of me because it was about emotions and I think he gets emotions almost entirely wrong. He repeatedly says the right thing and proceeds to explain in a way that's all wrong. | Overall, this was really good although chapter 13 irritated the piss out of me. There are lots of ideas here that I think are on target and pretty plainly stated. On topics of meditation and philosophy it's often very useful to hear the same thing from multiple sources because small differences in phrasing can make a big difference in understanding. I meditated for three years before encountering the phrase "sit and know that you're sitting" and that phrase set off a light bulb for me. I've listened to Sam Harris say "look for the looker" countless times but in this book Angelo tells you a bit about what you're looking for and that enabled me to break out of the intellectual box I'd put myself in. |
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| You probably don't care but here's [[note taking process|how these notes happen]]. | The only real problem I had with the book was the [[ideas:wooshit]]. Some of that was [[ideas:artifact of language]] and some of it was probably just sloppy word choice but there was another of it that I think Angelo's probably got some lefty ideas about [[ideas:emotions]]. I think he gets emotions almost entirely wrong, despite often saying the right thing. For instance, he says "an emotion doesn’t have a truth value" and then says repeatedly that emotions have "a right to be" and are "valid". Depending on what he means by that I might agree but it's still sloppy lefty shit that puts emotions on a pedestal. Emotions are like thoughts, they're brain noise that you should acknowledge but not take at face value. Angelo actually has a great metaphor where he says you should treat your thoughts as if someone had handed you a piece of paper with the thought written on it. This works great for emotions too. |
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| > Indented bits are from the book. | I didn't find anything super enlightening here (😉) but there was plenty of good stuff and some of it might be useful to you. |
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| FIXME - why is the TOC not showing up? It would be useful since this is so long. Apparently something with the ad-hominem theme. Fuck, why can't things just work? So now I'm on the bootstrap3 theme and TOC works but it doesn't show the whole thing at the top and when you scroll down a bit it hides itself. To really use it you have to click Commentary and then unhide the TOC. Fuck. Double fuck! Bootstrap3 isn't showing bullets in unordered lists and I use the fuck out of unordered lists. Why can't shit just work! <wrap lo>I'm not really mad, I'm amused, but also it's annoying.</wrap> | You probably don't care but here's [[note taking process|how these notes happen]]. |
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| ==== Chapter 14. Emotions ==== | ==== Chapter 14. Emotions ==== |
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