this is the kind of material that has been missing from my dashboard. hurrah.

jakelodwick:

A human which never subtracts anything — which never lets go of certain convictions or ceases certain behaviors — cannot evolve. It gets ‘clogged up’ and stuck, unable to adapt. As its environment changes, it remains the same, executing the same directives and steadily losing the ability to be happy, like a toy robot trying to walk through a wall.

When the human finds itself deeply unhappy, a good strategy is to remove as many elements from its life as possible — to ‘take it easy for a while’. This reduction of activity lowers the overall noise levels of the nervous system, so it easier to ‘hear oneself think’. The calm brain can now spend its precious calories on analysis of its own operation, instead of on outward-facing behavior and the feedback it produces. A near-silent nervous system will eventually discover forgotten truths and strangled emotions which had been buried under the chaos.

A human which never accepts its own fears, will never face them.

Jakob Lodwick stopped blogging; Jake Lodwick just started.

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   Jakob was how I found tumblr. He was...video site Vimeo,

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   started.” - Jakob Lodwick

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   your mom are back.

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   Beatles are back,...they’re making records again.

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   this. I’ve done this several times in my...after traumatic or life-changing...

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   welcome back jake! thanks...you i can’t stop repeating “professor glory hole” in my head

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    man feels about Ayn Rand...letting free markets reign supreme. Maybe

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    So frakking glad you are back.

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    Look who’s back.

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    I’ve really missed Jake during his break from...Internet. Since he lives on

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    material that has...missing from my dashboard. hurrah.

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    blogging post imaginable. Welcome back, Jakob.

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    Lodwick’s Tumblr

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    this. Thank you.

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