Becoming A Magician
Source: https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a-magician/
- Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician. In order to write the new version of this life description, I need to imagine a version of myself who, by definition, I cannot understand. If I understood her she wouldn’t be magical. (View Highlight)
- The feeling I get, as a very good bodypainter looking at Sanatan’s work, is that I am looking at magic. And that, in fact, is my definition of magic — competence so much more advanced than yours with such alien mental models that you cannot predict the outcomes of the model at all. (View Highlight)
- Note: This is when I truly admire people! When the work that they’re doing is so far outside my mental model that it seems like magic.
- One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic. Often without noticing, your progress in aspects of life or all of it unconsciously becomes linear. (View Highlight)
- The ‘describe the version of you that seems impossible right now’ trick I described above is largely an attempt to bypass that part of my brain that dismisses the work of magicians as crazy and starts allowing it to make the necessary shifts required to become the kind of magician I am envisioning. (View Highlight)
- Note: Someone who’s in shape — nay, ripped
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