I really like the latest posts you’ve dropped on meditation, they help me with some of my own reflections.
Is there an effect here? Maybe for some people. For me, at least, the positive effect to working memory isn’t super cumulative nor important. Does a little meditation before work help me concentrate? Sure, but so does weightlifting, taking a shower, and going for a walk.
Wanting to point out a situation where this really showed up for me, I get the point that it is stupid compared to what lies deeper in meditation but it is still instrumentally useful.
So, I didn’t meditate (samadhi) that much over the past two weeks, realized that I didn’t and spent like 6 hours meditating the last 3 days. My co-founder noticed directly and was like “last week it was like your ideas where in a narrow domain and carried a lot of uncertainty but now they’re broad and weird but at the same time pointing at the same thing, it is nice to have creative you back”
For me it is almost crucial for optimal work performance to have an hour of focused meditation a day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I haven’t had any experiences like the one you describe. I have instead had the opposite experience; my writing usually comes from a place of tension, which meditation dissolves.
I really like the latest posts you’ve dropped on meditation, they help me with some of my own reflections.
Wanting to point out a situation where this really showed up for me, I get the point that it is stupid compared to what lies deeper in meditation but it is still instrumentally useful.
So, I didn’t meditate (samadhi) that much over the past two weeks, realized that I didn’t and spent like 6 hours meditating the last 3 days. My co-founder noticed directly and was like “last week it was like your ideas where in a narrow domain and carried a lot of uncertainty but now they’re broad and weird but at the same time pointing at the same thing, it is nice to have creative you back”
For me it is almost crucial for optimal work performance to have an hour of focused meditation a day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m glad you’re enjoying the posts.
I haven’t had any experiences like the one you describe. I have instead had the opposite experience; my writing usually comes from a place of tension, which meditation dissolves.