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#86: The Science of Spontaneity - Edward Slingerland, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Daoism and Confucianism

There's different philosophies on oway as to how much effort you should actually put in. I think the daoist view makes any sense except as a corrective to the confusion view. The dais say, oh, that training and thingis terrible. Stop doing that. Just stop trying, or just relax, or just make your mind empty. And so i think that the way to understand it is daoism is this corrective for confucianism that has gone awry.

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