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- [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/nosilverv/1229741378575437800) by [[NotRivalVoices]] __[@nosilverv](https://twitter.com/nosilverv)__ on [[February 18th, 2020]]
    - 4channers, with their "hypertrophied intuition of damaged man" mix being "absolutely retarded on the personal level with sociological takes from the year 3020". They have keen observation powers, but the wrong theory. Let's discuss the macro in question.
        - ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERDoH3XXsAYn9Wm.jpg)
    - [[Heidegger]] too was an excellent observer and a fan of unique terminology. Study the following slides. I'll wait.
        - ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERDo3dZWoAIfQdm.jpg)
    - **The author discusses the difference between people who 'flow' through life and people who feel the need, and attempt to, explicitly** [[self-improve]]. He (you know it's a he) is pointing at a real distinction, tracking Heidegger's: that between [[present-at-hand]] and [[ready-to-hand]].
    - **And thus, logically, you try to fix yourself the way you'd fix any object.But the whole problem is that you treat yourself as an object in the first place and explicit self-improvement only reinforces this view!**
    - Now, to tie it back to the original image: deliberate self-improvement is def. explicit and def. reflective. So what is going wrong? What is going wrong is that you aren't ready-to-hand to yourself. That is, you are - to yourself - an object, and a broken object at that.
    - That is, the explicit reflective mode is what happens *when something goes wrong*. Read that again: the explicit reflective mode is what happens *when something goes wrong*.
    - The idea is this: as you use an object, if everything goes right you forget that "you" are "using" an "object". There is just acting happening. When something fails, maybe because the hammer breaks, you come back to yourself as yourself and to perceiving the object as an object.
    - This is the kind of thing that responds to hundreds of hours of excellent therapy or emotional processing or hardcore meditation.
    - It's unlikely that it's genetics. It also doesn't matter what caused it. That's narcissistic masturbation archeology. What matters is that there is a solution: you must once again become an embodied *being* (not object) among other embodied *beings*.
    - What happened is that a long time ago something went wrong with your deep models of how to be in the world. You will never “prereflectively do the right things” the way that jocks does that would relatively effortlessly get you the things you wants.
    - So, ironically, the great boon of self-improvement communities is *the community itself* as it pushes you to re-embodiment. But you decided to self-improve alone, go alone to go fast, right?
        - @jackinlondon Only because 'when something goes wrong' is one of the impulses to try to understand how a thing works. Others could be curiosity or going meta (trying to figure out how to make a good hammer, rather than just using one).

Just thinking about something doesn't make it bad/wrong.
    - @nosilverv this is what the Alexander Method is about yeah?
        - An odd thing that can happen too is.. One can embody successfully without seeing it, while also neurotically trying to self-improve. Neurotics who still attract cheerleaders, so to speak.
    - @pieratt > this
        - re-embodiment? in part yes!
    - @nosilverv It me >_<. 
        - If I’d been able to ready-at-hand myself I’d still be married to my dream girl 🙃
    - @pieratt it's ok. it's all ok. if it's not ok it's not the end. it isn't your fault, not ultimately so at least. also if you still wanna get her you can come to my re-embodiment course.
        - Embedded [tweet](https://twitter.com/nosilverv/1229743176216404000) by [nosilverv](https://twitter.com/nosilverv)
            - @collinofzion getting more and more into the movement course idea. we should call it 're-embodiment' instead and focus on 'reclaiming the body' and direct it to nerds who are out of their bodies. ido portal and so on only attract movement obsessed early adopters.
                - ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERDs0ZcXYAUNxOo.jpg)
    - [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/averykimball/1229745169173381000) by [[avery]] __[@averykimball](https://twitter.com/averykimball)__ on [[February 18th, 2020]]
        - [Heidegger]]’s broken hammer dovetails with [[System 1/2]] (System 2) thinking in [[Daniel Kahneman]]’s framework
            - you just System 1 until you run into unexpected shit (broken hammer), and then you drop into critical/creative space to muddle through this new broken space you’re in
            - [https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1229741385366020096](https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1229741385366020096)
        - @averykimball yep. (although i loathe kahneman) and you use s2 to fix how s1 works that caused whichever problem. or in another metaphor: the learning element changes the performance element
            - Embedded [tweet](https://twitter.com/nosilverv/1212711942630056000) by [nosilverv](https://twitter.com/nosilverv)
                - @visakanv This is excellent advice, but *why* does it work? Developing taste and editing work based on it is creating a reinforcement learning algorithm inside yourself. You produce work until your producers meets the standards of your evaluator. 
                    - Visually, you're creating one of these:
                    - ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENRq5ZCWwAsM8m1.png)
        - @nosilverv i know kahneman seems like a major mover in the Social Cargo Science thing
        - @averykimball yep. also his whole research is shit lol
        - @nosilverv well, except the stuff that agrees with heidegger
            - maybe i’ll segue to the heidegger angle instead of invoking kahneman