Appreciate you saying that. Not sure how accurate of an insight it is, but I think it is so easy for people project negative sentiments onto others, especially those who we have never met or interacted with 1 on 1. One way to combat this egoic tendency is to try to view their actions and behaviors in a more optimistic or nuetral lense. Doesnt make it true, but it helps combat singlemindedness and opens the door for multiple perspectives to coexist.
Infinitely complex!
And I think only the purest souls and spirits like a Buddha or a Christ can truely see people as they are, and fully grasp their infinite complexities.
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One way to combat this egoic tendency is to try to view their actions and behaviors in a more optimistic or nuetral lense
[/quote] I think that is such a great thing to do, I recently heard of a therapy technique (canāt remember what itās called) that involves coming up with alllll kinds of potential reasons for a personās behavior, without thinking about it too much, almost in an improvisational way, seemingly as a way to get out of the patterns we have when interpreting the actions of others. I was also just writing a new preface and one of the 3 things I felt were worth mentioning that Iāve learned over the past 6 years is that weād probably be better off to assume that strangers around us are experiencing grief or illness than to assume the default that their lives are perfect or that theyre consciously being an a-hole, etc.
Very curious to know what the name of this technique is.
I think it sounds brilliant and very similar to Byron Katies work:
Have not watched all these videos to completetion but hopefully they give you a taste of her genius technique.
I found her book on audio tape a few years ago after a friend reccomended it, and over the years have probably listened to it a good half a dozen times:
You can buy the book used for under $10.
Shes got some great 1 liners:
āif you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.ā
āDeath has a terrible reputation, but its only a rumorā
So True. So much of how we interpret the world around us is a projection, you almost always never really know the whole story, or whats really going on. The mind loves to write short prejudiced sound bite narratives, rather than taking the time to know the full story.
Evolutionarily speaking these snap judgements are probably what kept us alive, but the egoic narratives also can lead to a whole lot of suffering.
I canāt find the clip now but it was two therapists role playing it, it was regarding a mindfulness-based therapy called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and now that Iām looking up the different aspects of that therapy I believe it was ācheck the facts.ā I have read that this type of therapy was born out of Buddhism
I think she is brilliant as well! Thank you for sharing these. I first watched her do āthe workā with Oprah. I love that her creating this came from such an incredible low. It seems pretty miraculous.
I agree with you and @_Barry , I think Apple is the best house in a shady neighborhood.
I will add though that security and privacy are both an illusion, especially when it comes to the digital world.
Jim Cramer says own Apple dont trade it, the only other stock he has added to that list is Nvidia (NVDA)I agree with him on both companies. They are both hyper inflated right now, best to wait for a 10%-20% sell off, before dollar cost averageing in.
Jim Cramer is very eccentric renegade (textbook ). If you can discriminate between the mask this Water bearer wears, and the wisdom he holds, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Gene Munster is very prescient as well, here is an interview of him form december 2023:
The AI bubble will be huge when it pops, but it could take it another 5 years or more. That historically would put it around the 100 year aniversery of the Great Depression.
Not sure where the stock is heading in the next few years, but I trust his advice:
I would take Guy Adami 's( ) advice earnestly (around the 5min mark in video). He is one of the smartest minds on that show, if not the smartest. Hes also a Taylor Swift ( ) fan, I wonder why?
). If you can discriminate between the mask this Water bearer wears, and the wisdom he holds, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. 
) advice earnestly (around the 5min mark in video). He is one of the smartest minds on that show, if not the smartest. Hes also a Taylor Swift (