What would it be if you had to boil down your philosophy into a short mantra?
Here’s mine:
Embody it.
This is just a two-millimeter tweak from Nike’s “Just Do It” call to action, but resonates so much more. ‘Embody it‘ is my call to action when I start to talk way too much. It’s my call to action when I start to overthink things. It’s my call to action when I act out of alignment with my core values. (Especially knowing that I have my daughter keeping keen eyes on me. 👀)
I’m always reminded of one of the main principles in Nassim Taleb’s book, Anti-Fragile:
“To accord with the practitioner’s ethos, the rule in this book is as follows: I eat my own cooking… It’s time to revive the not well-known philosophical notion of doxastic commitment, and class of beliefs that go beyond talk, and to which we are committed enough to take personal risks.”
The world is already filled with, what Taleb calls, ‘inverse heroes’ with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability. There’s just no skin in the game.
Here’s my call to action for you:
Don’t “Just Do it.”
Embody it.
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READ, WATCH, LISTEN ⤵
WATCH: Embodied Cognition
(Length: 14 mins)
Sharing this one to watch again later, but click below to jump to, what I found to be the most interesting points. An eloquent lecture on embodied cognition. If you’re reading this newsletter you probably appreciate that the mind and body are not two separate entities. Here’s more to support that.
We can’t just look at the brain as some glorified stimulus-response link, or a bank of filters that’s processing information. You really have to think about the action-perception cycle, the circular causality induced by the notion that the environment is acting upon you, and you are acting upon your environment. And it’s a dance… a dialogue.
AESTHETICALLY PLEASING 👀
LINES - William Forsythe Improvisation Technologies
”These video segments, originally produced by William Forsythe for the purpose of training his company’s dancers, offer a perspective on the choreographer’s approach to analyzing improvisation. The animated lines and other graphical effects that annotate the sequences demonstrate Forsythe’s view that certain classes of movement can be analyzed as geometrically inscriptive – a formal drawing with the body in space.”1
*I highly recommend sipping some coffee this weekend and letting this playlist run. Most of the clips are under one minute but they teach so much!
TINY INSIGHT 🧠
“When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.” ~Epictetus
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To Embodying It,
Galo Alfredo Naranjo