Oddbean new post about login | logout “As an artist, if you are always just receptive to the things with which the world entertains you and make your work in response to them . . . that’s not so interesting. The moment when you are disconnected and go into this deep boredom . . . this is really a great experience.” https://video.nostr.build/e25e04b830ade8fa5810f14f71d01c9ed15b4fadfbbcf8697bbfe702010e3b53.mp4 Peter Fischli and David Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987, Full video: https://www.facebook.com/earways/videos/570376236477565/ #art #artstr
As an occasional meditator also, and having been hit by horrible boredom several years back, we adopted the self observation principle of just treating it like any other psychic inner state/bothersome adjunct and observed it instead of allowing it to scoop us out and become us. Fuck. We thought we had issue THEN..