I think the fear is uncertainty I think
that’s the reason why there is a billion
dollar industry now teaching people how
to become more present and the irony is
is if we would have been able to live in
the present of a hundred thousand years
ago in the savannahs of Africa gotten
beaten by the lion that we didn’t see
living in the present is not
evolutionarily advantageous you know
what’s advantageous is the fact that we
can imagine future scenarios the reason
we have memory and Jordan Peterson talks
about this is not something to relish
about past times is so that we can learn
from things that happen in the past and
make inferences about what’s going to
happen mitigating against future risk
was biologically selected for those who
did that read more widely so we have
inherited that brilliant neuroses of
foreshadowing future danger and
mitigating against it problem is once
we’ve made the world safe we still are
like a hamster in a hamster wheel it’s
like you may have money you may be
paying your rent you may be have a wife
and a kid in its net but you’re still
worried about tomorrow like what’s gonna
happen oh my god the collapse of the
government a terrorist attack an
airplane does act like we would that’s
the wire ironically we’ve got to
time where now some of the hardware that
has served us so well is now problematic
and there’s this desire to return to a
kind of capacity to be here now and
actually like neuter our foreshadowing
capacity and a relishing of memory to
block the signals forwards and backwards
in fact in mental health now there is a
renaissance again I’m talking about like
the rise of learning to be the present
meditation mindfulness all of these
techniques are teaching us to neutralize
our wiring to think about the future
human the human brain human beings are
like an artificial intelligence program
we take in data from the present we
compare that data with data from the
past and we use that than to make
predictions about the future and that’s
what we’re always doing automatically
all the time in fact a lot of the time
we dispense with the present data
altogether and just leapfrog to the
conclusion and so we’re living in this
perpetual bin there’s and seeing that to
be at ulta mind also known as jaded miss
you’re not even there you’re like rather
look at your phone or you rather what
movie we gonna watch later like we’re
just never present because our brain is
so effective at saying I know what this
is and making predictions about the
fusion if the futures not dangerous then
we don’t even have to pay attention to
so we live with this kind of Perpetual
this future tenants like we’re like
crook like having a crooked back with a
future tense all the time never now
always future tenants you know maybe
that makes you a good businessman or a
good planner but unless you’re like an
architect if you’re like planning a
structure you’re gonna build like the
incapacity to enjoy and smell the
flowers is very problematic but what are
some of the ways that we can neuter our
compulsion to constantly leapfrog to the
future travel experiences and violate
your expectation art what these things
do is they block all signals forwards
and backwards it’s hard to know what’s
about to happen if you’re in a place
that’s completely new when you’re off
the reservation you don’t know where
that path leads and when you don’t know
where that path leads it’s hard to
imagine where it leads
so instead your senses are heightened
then you’re here now paying attention
and it also is there’s this from this
dilemma of our existential conundrum
do about death because it’s not even
that we’re afraid of dying tomorrow
we’re afraid of dying in 30 years like
I’m afraid of turning 90 and dying with
a minor cept when I’m traveling when I’m
exposed to great beautiful art when I’m
making love what happens is you block
all signals forwards and backwards when
you block all signals forwards and
backwards you enter the flow of the
present a present that is literally
wonder – why
being the byproduct of exactly
unencumbered sense of first sight or
virginal noticing
so you obliterating the adult capacity
to foreshadow everything and you were
returning to a more virginal state of
heightened appreciation for what’s
unfolding in real time and that seems to
be the answer to our it was because when
we have those experiences we have and AH
is an experience of such a perceptual
expansion in the moment that all your
mental models by what this is our
obliterated oh now I know what a
glacier looks like oh that’s what a lion
looks like in its natural habitat what
do you are you are dumbstruck you are
awestruck even though these are
transitory experiences they leave
afterglow
that’s all the people
magic mushrooms have mystical experience
one of the Grand Canyon they see their
child be warned they’re left with this
afternoon weeks months sometimes even
years afterwards increased well-being
increased creativity and increased
perhaps the answer to the existential
agitation and what to do with ourselves
in the face of death is simply to stop
and smell the roses
to learn to steward the contents of
when we get caught up in like the
excessive rumination and overthinking
not get caught up in the team or
by exposing ourselves to great art to
travel to do things new and different or
you know you’re hurled back into the field
that’s the reason why there is a billion
dollar industry now teaching people how
to become more present and the irony is
is if we would have been able to live in
the present of a hundred thousand years
ago in the savannahs of Africa gotten
beaten by the lion that we didn’t see
living in the present is not
evolutionarily advantageous you know
what’s advantageous is the fact that we
can imagine future scenarios the reason
we have memory and Jordan Peterson talks
about this is not something to relish
about past times is so that we can learn
from things that happen in the past and
make inferences about what’s going to
happen mitigating against future risk
was biologically selected for those who
did that read more widely so we have
inherited that brilliant neuroses of
foreshadowing future danger and
mitigating against it problem is once
we’ve made the world safe we still are
like a hamster in a hamster wheel it’s
like you may have money you may be
paying your rent you may be have a wife
and a kid in its net but you’re still
worried about tomorrow like what’s gonna
happen oh my god the collapse of the
government a terrorist attack an
airplane does act like we would that’s
the wire ironically we’ve got to
time where now some of the hardware that
has served us so well is now problematic
and there’s this desire to return to a
kind of capacity to be here now and
actually like neuter our foreshadowing
capacity and a relishing of memory to
block the signals forwards and backwards
in fact in mental health now there is a
renaissance again I’m talking about like
the rise of learning to be the present
meditation mindfulness all of these
techniques are teaching us to neutralize
our wiring to think about the future
human the human brain human beings are
like an artificial intelligence program
we take in data from the present we
compare that data with data from the
past and we use that than to make
predictions about the future and that’s
what we’re always doing automatically
all the time in fact a lot of the time
we dispense with the present data
altogether and just leapfrog to the
conclusion and so we’re living in this
perpetual bin there’s and seeing that to
be at ulta mind also known as jaded miss
you’re not even there you’re like rather
look at your phone or you rather what
movie we gonna watch later like we’re
just never present because our brain is
so effective at saying I know what this
is and making predictions about the
fusion if the futures not dangerous then
we don’t even have to pay attention to
so we live with this kind of Perpetual
this future tenants like we’re like
crook like having a crooked back with a
future tense all the time never now
always future tenants you know maybe
that makes you a good businessman or a
good planner but unless you’re like an
architect if you’re like planning a
structure you’re gonna build like the
incapacity to enjoy and smell the
flowers is very problematic but what are
some of the ways that we can neuter our
compulsion to constantly leapfrog to the
future travel experiences and violate
your expectation art what these things
do is they block all signals forwards
and backwards it’s hard to know what’s
about to happen if you’re in a place
that’s completely new when you’re off
the reservation you don’t know where
that path leads and when you don’t know
where that path leads it’s hard to
imagine where it leads
so instead your senses are heightened
then you’re here now paying attention
and it also is there’s this from this
dilemma of our existential conundrum
do about death because it’s not even
that we’re afraid of dying tomorrow
we’re afraid of dying in 30 years like
I’m afraid of turning 90 and dying with
a minor cept when I’m traveling when I’m
exposed to great beautiful art when I’m
making love what happens is you block
all signals forwards and backwards when
you block all signals forwards and
backwards you enter the flow of the
present a present that is literally
wonder – why
being the byproduct of exactly
unencumbered sense of first sight or
virginal noticing
so you obliterating the adult capacity
to foreshadow everything and you were
returning to a more virginal state of
heightened appreciation for what’s
unfolding in real time and that seems to
be the answer to our it was because when
we have those experiences we have and AH
is an experience of such a perceptual
expansion in the moment that all your
mental models by what this is our
obliterated oh now I know what a
glacier looks like oh that’s what a lion
looks like in its natural habitat what
do you are you are dumbstruck you are
awestruck even though these are
transitory experiences they leave
afterglow
that’s all the people
magic mushrooms have mystical experience
one of the Grand Canyon they see their
child be warned they’re left with this
afternoon weeks months sometimes even
years afterwards increased well-being
increased creativity and increased
perhaps the answer to the existential
agitation and what to do with ourselves
in the face of death is simply to stop
and smell the roses
to learn to steward the contents of
when we get caught up in like the
excessive rumination and overthinking
not get caught up in the team or
by exposing ourselves to great art to
travel to do things new and different or
you know you’re hurled back into the field
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