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#14 - How to Be Superman, with Michael Ashcroft
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
The Benefits of Expanded Awareness
Is it always better to be in expanded awareness, or are there times where contracted awareness might actually be useful or even needed? It's an interesting question. And I guess my first comment is that I'm not anti-rationality. I'm not thinking. So instead of using our conscious ability to reason, to add to what we can do well already unconsciously, we're kind of getting in our own ways. But the sense of layering on more effort than is required because you think you have to often leads to worse outcomes. In fact, if you were to loosen the grip of that thing over yourself, what you find in many cases is that you've formed a much higher standard with
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