I don’t meditate. I spend a lot of time in my own head (even more than usual the last few months, for obvious reasons), and it is, frankly, not always great for me. I suppose meditating wouldn’t be that, exactly, but I think I’d have to push through exactly that. I’d rather set my mind on something, a book, a video game, a program, a proof. Back when I wrote proofs, when I was getting close to figuring out a new one I wouldn’t even be able to sleep; my brain would hold the problem tight in its jaws until it yielded, and other considerations would take a backseat as much as possible. This is a fine form of ego annihilation: at the end you’ve created something.
meditations
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I don’t meditate. I spend a lot of time in my own head (even more than usual the last few months, for obvious reasons), and it is, frankly, not always great for me. I suppose meditating wouldn’t be that, exactly, but I think I’d have to push through exactly that. I’d rather set my mind on something, a book, a video game, a program, a proof. Back when I wrote proofs, when I was getting close to figuring out a new one I wouldn’t even be able to sleep; my brain would hold the problem tight in its jaws until it yielded, and other considerations would take a backseat as much as possible. This is a fine form of ego annihilation: at the end you’ve created something.