Current roommate was 8 days late with last month's rent, thus overdrafting me multiple times, so yeah, I'm very happy that this hellish year is almost over.
Job is amazingly boring, but...
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I got a new job. I'm now a student scanning assistant in the...
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Anyways, I wanted to show you...
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I can count the number of real-life friends I have on two hands, and close friends it goes down to one hand, but this fact...
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How sad is it that I have really nothing that has happened in the past 2 months?
I've got a job interview on Monday on campus. It's an office assistant job in some random...
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First, my grandmother on my dad's side died last week, which led to myself and my brother going to Roswell, NM, which is a hellhole, to spend a weekend with a family that neither he...
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), and that you can act your way into the place you want to be.
Re: our Jayhawks-- my brother and I got tickets for the Nebraska game and went as a memorial/tribute for my mom. Our 'Hawks slipped a couple games because their biggest fan died, but we went to Allen Fieldhouse, brought her spirit, and well . . . you can see the results.
My uncle (father's side, but has known my mother for years and years) told me after the Missouri game that, "Where she is, the 'Hawks won those games by a point."
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Best thing about this Christmas: Tons of KU gear and a new motorcycle jacket that I was wanting, plus a $9000 money order that isn't technically a present...
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The western version of the idea is the province of performance psychology.
Here is a book on the topic. You were totally in a flow state when you drove out of the way of the semi. So it's not that you acted beyond yourself, in reality, you acted at the peak of yourself.
From The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:
Over and over again, as people describe how it feels when they thoroughly enjoy themselves, they mention eight distinct dimensions of experience. These same aspects are reported by Hindu yogis and Japanese teenagers who race motorcycles, by American surgeons and basketball players, by Australian sailors and Navajo shepherds, by champion figure skaters and by chess masters. These are the characteristic dimensions of the flow experience:
1. Clear goals: an objective is distinctly defined; immediate feedback: one knows instantly how well one is doing.
2. The opportunities for acting decisively are relatively high, and they are matched by one's perceived ability to act. In other words, personal skills are well suited to given challenges.
3. Action and awareness merge; one-pointedness of mind.
4. Concentration on the task at hand; irrelevant stimuli disappear from consciousness, worries and concerns are temporarily suspended.
5. A sense of potential control.
6. Loss of self-consciousness, transcendence of ego boundaries, a sense of growth and of being part of some greater entity.
7. Altered sense of time, which usually seems to pass faster.
8. Experience becomes autotelic: If several of the previous conditions are present, what one does becomes autotelic, or worth doing for its own sake.