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Lulie

@reasonisfun

Epistemology applied to everything. 💫 Host of Reason Is Fun podcast w/ @DavidDeutschOxf 🎙️ Taking critical rationalism into life – how to improve both.

 Oxford, UK
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Joined April 2015
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I tweet about: 💭 philosophy (epistemology, reason) 🧠 psychology, mental blocks 🎭 emotion, inexplicit knowledge, phenomenology 👩‍🍼 culture, memetics, tradition (relationships, parenting, scientific research) 🗽 non-coercion (applied to learning & productivity) Best threads — 1/
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@reasonisfun4 Oct 2018
'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do. Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant. But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
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“Bob was bottlenecked by lifelong anxiety. […] We resolved it in a single conversation.” The right knowledge is the most powerful thing in the world.
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@chrislakin11 Sep 2024
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We met at a prediction market conference. He placed the bounty because his anxiety was crushing his agency and relationships. We spoke. Now two months later, he says our one conversation helped him achieve what 8 years of talk therapy could not
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LONDON - Nov 7th - Alexander Technique I'm giving a workshop on effortlessness and how to be yourself in every situation. Helpful for: - tension or constriction (in any context) - social anxiety - feeling stuck in your head Brings about: flow, ease, charisma, aliveness.
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this class has changed my life more than anything else it gets u out of reactive patterns (which helps with anxiety, feeling stuck, feeling trapped in ur head) and gives a lot of the benefits of meditation but WAY faster and doing it in everyday life
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📍 South Bank Alexander Technique Centre, London 🗓️ 2pm-5pm, Saturday Nov 7th 💳 £50 Register by emailing at the link below: alexandercentre.co.uk/news-2…
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Workshop with Peter Nobes and Lulie Tanett. Saturday November 7th, 2pm to 5pm. Email us for more information. October Intensive Weekend with Bill Conable and Peter Nobes. October 9th to 12th Bill p…

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[P.S. I mention his cancer because some people like this work so much that they join the training school, like I did, and training takes a few years. Even if you don't come to this particular workshop, I'd suggest giving Peter's classes a try while he's still around!]
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Worrying about being bad cuts off the parts of you that can distinguish truth.
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When you do/think something, you can reflect on how it felt and if you like it. That’s how you can tell if it’s bad/undesirable. You can’t do that checking prior to having a thing to check.
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So: you’re free.
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There’s something very counter-intuitive about Popperian epistemology. All knowledge comes from theories (not interacting with the world)—and yet, attending to the world changes the evolutionary environment of inexplicit theories and helps learning? 🤷‍♀️ I’m going to this today:
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UK - London this Wednesday, 6:30pm TPOT don’t miss this special Alexander Technique class – embodied presence Bill Conable will be joining us 🤩 we just had a weekend intensive and it was ELECTRIC. suitable for beginners - details below
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For personal problems where you feel stuck, you have two types of ideas about it: intellectual and emotional. It’s common to use intellectual arguments to try to solve the problem. But they often miss, because emotional ideas tend to have much of their content unstated.
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“Why do I feel bad about this problem?” <body responds with ‘stuck/scared, constrained’> “What’s the most ‘constrained’ about this?” <throat tightens, vague image of unable to speak> “What does ‘tight throat’ need? What’d make it feel better?” … This is ~Gendlin’s Focusing.
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Asking the feeling, instead of guessing intellectually about what the problem is, can pull out the inexplicit content. I.e. you’re directly dialoging with what’s actually there (actually looking at the object), rather than guessing abstractly, disconnected from the real details.
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