Trying to sit with the thought of the territory as the thing that exists as it actually is regardless of whatever I expect. This feels easy to believe for textbook physics, somewhat harder for whatever I’m trying to paint (I have to repeatedly remind myself to actually look at the cloud I’m painting), and really hard for psychology. (Like, I recently told someone that, in theory, if their daily planning is calibrated they should have days where they get more done than planned, but in practice this gets complicated because of interactions between their plans and how quickly/efficiently they work.)
Yet, to the best of my knowledge, psychology isn’t *not* physics… It’s just that we humans aren’t yet good enough at physics to understand psychology.
Trying to sit with the thought of the territory as the thing that exists as it actually is regardless of whatever I expect. This feels easy to believe for textbook physics, somewhat harder for whatever I’m trying to paint (I have to repeatedly remind myself to actually look at the cloud I’m painting), and really hard for psychology. (Like, I recently told someone that, in theory, if their daily planning is calibrated they should have days where they get more done than planned, but in practice this gets complicated because of interactions between their plans and how quickly/efficiently they work.)
Yet, to the best of my knowledge, psychology isn’t *not* physics… It’s just that we humans aren’t yet good enough at physics to understand psychology.