The Rabbit Hole of Purpose
To be explored…
Topics listed below are ideas that are yet to be summarized.
- What do humans need?
- Ethical purpose or hedonism?
- Meaning of life fallacy
- The utility of religion/groupthink and the reason why people dedicate themselves to them (despite obvious detriment)
- Creative people being more sensitive, but sensitivity results in greater pain. Suggesting to the individual that they may only be able to access their creativity while in pain. Whereas correlation does not necessarily equal causation.
- The meaning of life is to serve humanity. Any other task with the motivation of life’s purpose will be met with agitation and incoherence.
- Purpose is found when one commits to taking responsibility
Work without love is dry & empty. Love without work is incomplete – Freud
Art is the artist communicating with unspoken and complex meaning. Expressing emotion and theme that would otherwise be unrecognizable via speech. Every move we make, in a sense, is an expression of art. Every experience in our life culminates into the structure of our body and the way we carry it. Communication our authenticate beliefs and feelings even if our actual words say different. Messages of pain are left screaming, on display for the world.
Proper art is mind arresting. It transcends desire and loathing to elicit a meditation of the mind. The motive of proper art is to bring out “the radiance.” Art is contemplative. It is the way of intelligence.
Wu wei – effortless action. Switching off the sense of other.
Find the right ratio between CREATING:LEARNING
Do or way, is purposefulness, acting without waste or haste, in a spirit of play.
- Miyamoto Mushashi: There are various ways. There is the way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the way of Confucius governing the way of learning, the way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the way of waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.
Are You Suppressing Your Drive and Motivation by Working Too Late?
By working too late you may be blunting dopamine by viewing light too late. Viewing bright light from 10pm-4am triggers the habenula circuit to reward circuitry and suppresses activation of reward circuitry. Reducing your capacity to release dopamine.