RE: the body's a pesky, unwanted thing
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Americans are so bad with stillness. The "hustle culture" of the last couple of decades has completely wrecked our life-balance. Hustling can bring material success but it can also hollow us out, make us less present, and ruin our health. I like the correlation you draw between Hive and yoga and what you say about chasing things.
Chamath Palihapitiya recently said in his recent JRE Podcast appearance (#2494) that the only true currency of the human psyche is attention—everything else we think we desire is just an offshoot of that. Thinking about this reframed a lot for me. This podcast is the best JRE episode I've listened to in a very long time.
Sales of my mindfulness and meditation books reflect what you say about people running from stillness—they're at an all time low. But I believe society will come back around to those things that bring us peace and heal us. Everything ebbs and flows and if we chase the tide it's easy to get pulled under.
That's high praise, I should check it out. I try to remind myself constantly and keep an eye on how I'm squandering mine and how That's hollowing out my own being. Alas, i think it's spread past America.
It appeared at just the right time for me. Yes, sadly, it has spread. I feel so much more at ease when I'm in Europe though.