From the Daydication technique I previously shared, I’ve derived a new thinking tool or toy. It benefits me so much it seems worth sharing with presumed friends, such as yourself.
Every morning, and sometimes when entering certain situations, I nominate three ideas to remain on my mind, “on my radar” until the next time I sleep. These "thaumata" are virtues, aims, missions or values that I choose to keep readily available in the middle of whatever I will be doing or thinking. For examples: “fortitude”, “playfulness”, “duty”, “elegance”. I say their names to evoke them; sometimes I add a dash of visualization where I place them in my visual field like apps in an iOS dock or an Android favourites tray. Over the day I recall, refresh, refine or replace them, as often as I want.
I call them thaumata (θαύματα is Greek for wonders or sights, singular thauma) to emphasize that their point is that I want to keep an eye on them, and because thaumata is a beautiful word that was sitting unused.
Three is for me the optimal number of thaumata, but for you any small natural number might do.
I nominate my thaumata privately, and I especially enjoy employing idiosyncratic, intimate ideas. Like right now my current three thaumata are “🇪delmut”, “🇪udaimonia” and “🇪rzengel”, each election evidently exceptional, extraordinarily eigen. Eccentricity, expressly excluding everybody else, emotionally engages these three thaumata to me more meaningful, more mine, more magical.
In all seriousness, what these thaumata actually are in reality, ontologically, is thoughts; neural oscillations vibing slightly differently from the ego thought that you think you are. So LORETA should be able to see them and they’re in my opinion independently conscious, which matters to those to whom it does. If you want to go deeper into applicable neurophilosophy, stay tuned for my upcoming Sequence, to be titled “Being Thoughts”.
From the Daydication technique I previously shared, I’ve derived a new thinking tool or toy. It benefits me so much it seems worth sharing with presumed friends, such as yourself.
Every morning, and sometimes when entering certain situations, I nominate three ideas to remain on my mind, “on my radar” until the next time I sleep. These "thaumata" are virtues, aims, missions or values that I choose to keep readily available in the middle of whatever I will be doing or thinking. For examples: “fortitude”, “playfulness”, “duty”, “elegance”. I say their names to evoke them; sometimes I add a dash of visualization where I place them in my visual field like apps in an iOS dock or an Android favourites tray. Over the day I recall, refresh, refine or replace them, as often as I want.
I call them thaumata (θαύματα is Greek for wonders or sights, singular thauma) to emphasize that their point is that I want to keep an eye on them, and because thaumata is a beautiful word that was sitting unused.
Three is for me the optimal number of thaumata, but for you any small natural number might do.
I nominate my thaumata privately, and I especially enjoy employing idiosyncratic, intimate ideas. Like right now my current three thaumata are “🇪delmut”, “🇪udaimonia” and “🇪rzengel”, each election evidently exceptional, extraordinarily eigen. Eccentricity, expressly excluding everybody else, emotionally engages these three thaumata to me more meaningful, more mine, more magical.
In all seriousness, what these thaumata actually are in reality, ontologically, is thoughts; neural oscillations vibing slightly differently from the ego thought that you think you are. So LORETA should be able to see them and they’re in my opinion independently conscious, which matters to those to whom it does. If you want to go deeper into applicable neurophilosophy, stay tuned for my upcoming Sequence, to be titled “Being Thoughts”.