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Brothers Grimm’s “The White Snake”

A king with preternatural knowing has a mysterious dish brought to him nightly.  A trusted servant can’t help himself one day and, in private, takes a glimpse and a bite.  Understanding the language of animals now, he is able to save himself from death numerous times and, also because he saved many lowly creatures in need, marry a princess.  A story about an extraordinary and adventurous youth who rises to the heights.Please like, comment and subscribe!
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Stimulating Nature (Clip)

I ask LL about salutary, stimulating texts that might wake her up and she says she goes out into nature and this helps wake her up.  I relate a Jordan Peterson quote about being self-conscious being identical with negative emotional experience.
 
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Engaging the Senses and Mind (Clip)

Psychological technologies – “psychotechnologies”-- are something John Vervaeke talks a lot about, and ones like writing help us to be reflective and less self-deceptive, personally and in the history of the human race as well.  I ask LL about her use of things that guide her, which she relates to engaging the senses and mind.
 
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Developing Our Inner Machines, Our Capacities (Clip)

Getting dumber from smart phones.  Rousseau teaches that we should teach things slowly, and that by employing machines outside our body we don’t develop the machines within.  I mention productivity guru Cal Newport’s suggestion to take everything “interesting” off your phone; I took YouTube off my phone.  
 
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Our Experiences with Well-Being Therapy (Clip)

Our Experiences with Well-Being Therapy (Clip)
 
I am reminded of Well-Being Therapy by our conversation about being present without an agenda with someone.  This therapy is simple but effective at improving outlook.  
 
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Not Putting the Agenda First (Clip)

Problem-Solving vs. Being With Someone. In the discussion, where we talked about the usefulness of mistakes, we talk about how to not problem-solve with people and be present with them, not putting the agenda first.  Reminds me of Well-Being Therapy.
 
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Prioritizing Efficiency and Deprioritizing Humanity (Clip)

Rousseau’s idea that making mistakes is essential to learning – don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.  The same can be said of goals.
 
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Technology Replacing Psychotechnology (Clip)

LL works through how technology might alienate us from our world, using the example of maps smartphone tech.  I recall Rousseau’s teaching that mistakes are essential to learning.
 
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Scientific instruments and Alienation from Ourselves (Clip)

From Emile: “The more ingenious are our tools, the cruder and more maladroit our organs become.  By dint of gathering machines around us, we no longer find any in ourselves.” (176)  I give an example from the book that Rousseau gives of how he might teach Emile to judge distances with his eyes, but Rousseau has a larger point of how education can teach us to live with our senses, using them and developing confidence in them, instead of defaulting to the use of devices.  
 
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Machines Outside and Inside Us

Smartphones are apparently making us dumb, which reminds me of Rousseau’s writing from Emile: “The more ingenious are our tools, the cruder and more maladroit our organs become.  By dint of gathering machines around us, we no longer find any in ourselves.” (176)  We talk about the drawbacks of relying on technology rather than our senses and knowledge.  
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