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#147 — Stephen Fry

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Mindfulness Is Not a Replacement for Being Artistically Creative

i would argue that you'd be more appreciative of many of the products of your own creativity or others, because you can actually pay attention. And that actually is one of the primary skills that is transferable from meditation. Because meditation is the ability to pay close attention to any arbitrary object. I should you say, stare at that water bottle for five minutes. Somebody who really knows how to meditate, hohas, trained it as a skill, can stare at it and be one pointed enough such that not much else is happening,. Right when you have your smart phone competing for your attention, but your child is there, and you've got this one opportunity to pay attention wut

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