Hopefully, after I’m done, you [...] will have difficulty understanding how you ever got by without this concept.
I was a bit skeptical of this part. 24 hours later and having felt-sense pop up in my thoughts like 20 times today, I am pleasantly surprised by how useful the concept is.
I’ve been trying to become better at focusing less on answering what people say, and more at addressing the reason they are saying it. I realized I can focus on the felt-sense of the conversation to better accomplish this.
I’ve been reading a long fiction book in which the narrator spends a lot of time associating particular emotions to particular places. I feel that now I can express this better by saying that “the narrator is building the felt-sense of each place”
I was reading a CS paper, and it was easy to over-focus on the formalism instead of focusing on the big picture. By telling myself to look at felt-sense of the paper, it became clearer what the paper was trying to do.
Nice. Yeah, the first one in particular resonates a lot—felt senses of “what is this person really trying to do here”, while definitely also fallible and prone to personal biases, still tend to convey a lot of information if one just remains open to them.
I was a bit skeptical of this part. 24 hours later and having felt-sense pop up in my thoughts like 20 times today, I am pleasantly surprised by how useful the concept is.
Thanks for writing this up!
Cool! Any examples out of those 20 that you’d like to share?
I’ve been trying to become better at focusing less on answering what people say, and more at addressing the reason they are saying it. I realized I can focus on the felt-sense of the conversation to better accomplish this.
I’ve been reading a long fiction book in which the narrator spends a lot of time associating particular emotions to particular places. I feel that now I can express this better by saying that “the narrator is building the felt-sense of each place”
I was reading a CS paper, and it was easy to over-focus on the formalism instead of focusing on the big picture. By telling myself to look at felt-sense of the paper, it became clearer what the paper was trying to do.
Nice. Yeah, the first one in particular resonates a lot—felt senses of “what is this person really trying to do here”, while definitely also fallible and prone to personal biases, still tend to convey a lot of information if one just remains open to them.