[HopenHeyHi]

  one of my reference on the topic is Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective"

  I recently started meditating with Sam Harris's Waking up, which is really helping on bringing more awareness in my life

Rolls up newspaper.. thawack

Stop that. You don't need that shit.

Listen to Ze Frank about Brain Crack (he is a very nice man from a long ago interwebs where people didn't try to sell you self help bullshit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8

[garrickvanburen]

Thanks for the Ze Frank pointer. I was continually inspired by his work.

Merlin Mann’s “Make Believe Help” is similar, both in vintage and in message.

https://vimeo.com/7192517

[surprisetalk]

Why don't you think his methods are useful?

[HopenHeyHi]

Self help genre nerd snipes a lot of otherwise intelligent people. It is a bottomless pit.

Vaguely useful is reading biographies of interesting people/companies like John Carmack or the Chucky Cheese dude, and so on. Gives you a bit of color on their experience, look at that crazy journey, sounds wild, I want to have a life like that..

Think of it like Harvard business case reviews but without the just-so tea-leaves retroactive nonsense - that path is for consultants. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

If you have a cool idea just chase it down and see what happens, figure out the rest as you go. :)

[goodpoint]

Meditation can be good, Sam Harris and the rest of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web are not.

[throwaway-001]

oof, had no clue about it. Probably mistake not researching it. By my experience so far I haven't seen any trace of such philosophy in the App I'm using, I guess is very well packaged for a mainstream consumption.

[HopenHeyHi]

  Individuals and publications associated with the term reject what they view as authoritarianism and ostracism within mainstream progressive movements in Western countries, especially within universities and the news media. 

  This includes opposition to deplatforming, boycotts, and online shaming, which are seen as threats to freedom of speech. Those who have been labelled as being part of the IDW come from both the right and left of the political spectrum. The validity of the term is contested by some it has been applied to due to the range of beliefs it encompasses.

Me neither, this is some unspeakable evil. Meditation apps should be about authoritarianism and ostracism. These people just don't know how to be mindful and chill.

If you haven't found traces of their bad philosophy in the app you're simply not looking hard enough pal. They might be subtly influencing you to think incorrectly.

Please make sure to watch out for these things next time you meditate.

[throwaway-001]

yeah absolutely. Thank you