Joshua Pritikin on Brambles

Big Emotion

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Big Emotion #

I’ve often wondered, what is the purpose of my life? Recently, I think a possible answer has come into sharper focus. I have dedicated my life to the search for Big Emotion. This essay is an attempt to convey what I mean by Big Emotion.

Introduction #

Psychologists often ask study participants to describe their feelings. There are two major approaches: (1) discrete emotion labels, and (2) dimensional rating. To help participants respond more accurately, the two approaches can be combined by arranging discrete emotion labels in a two-dimensional affect space. Many researchers have worked on this problem. One way to organize emotions is as follows.

Integration

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Credit: Midjourney "flowers fungi celestial constellation stars spiral galaxies deep field"

The Question of Integration #

How do we reconcile the beauty we feel in peak experiences with our mundane practical reality?

An enjoyable psychedelic trip should catalyze more than a faint memory.

Meditation #

Meditation is an expression of integration; meditation is a way to bring beauty into the mundane. There are many ways to learn how to meditate. If you work with me then you can learn how to meditate (if you don’t know already).

Exercise

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Exercise #

Exercise is important for physical and mental health. For people who have already settled on favorite activities, such as golf or figure skating, keep it up. There is no special reason that you need to change. However, not everybody already has strong activity preferences. The question that we try to answer here is:

What is the most enjoyable way to exercise?

Criteria #

I am proud to say that I have collaborated on seminal research in this area.¹ Our results point to the importance of

Parenting

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Parenting #

Hand in Hand Parenting’s brilliance lies in its simplicity. It gives overwhelmed parents easy-to-remember tools.¹

Setting Limits #

Setting limits is difficult because parents must enforce boundaries while staying emotionally connected to their child. Traditional discipline often creates adversarial dynamics that damage relationships and fail to address the emotions driving challenging behavior.

How does Hand in Hand address this challenge?

Here’s how it works:

Cognition

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Critical Thinking #

Logical Fallacies #

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Cognitive Biases #

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Bibliography #

Freese, B. (2020). Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change. University of California Press.

Urban Design

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Urban Design #

Most North American cities are designed for cars 🚗 not people.

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Misc

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Miscellaneous #

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.”¹ 🤦

Journalism #

Democracy #

Access to Knowledge #

Criminal Justice #

Nuclear #

Nuclear power is a great idea if you believe we can avoid Murphy’s law for about 100,000 years.