Maybe I'm embodied

Colored Feeling Wheel by Feeling Wheel cc-by-sa

No need to mince words, self awareness is the worst. Reflective self awareness to be exact. Although I'm not entirely sure self awareness that isn't reflective is self awareness. In any case, I get sick of it and often wish I could turn it off. This week, though, I learned some things about brains that I found fascinating – like the idea that our lizard brain (which I invoke often in this newsletter) is a myth! The concept of "emotional granularity" is one I've used in inclusivity and community culture workshops/talks, but I didn't have such appropriate language for it.

Now I can't keep up with everything Dr Belshaw is doing in his MSc, but the "Juggling the B-Ball" post is right up my street at the moment. In it, he writes about a table based on work from Lakoff and Johnson (1999) that "compares and contrasts the ‘Traditional Western conception of the disembodied person’ with ‘The conception of an embodied person’." He goes on to talk about "embodied ways of knowing". This ties into the whole attention thing I was talking about last week.

Finding new ways to talk about the things we're learning means we can connect with people who speak in those terms. Neat, huh? Also, embodied ways of knowing aren't always respected or even considered and that, my friends, is part of the problem.

You have more control over your emotions than you think with Lisa Feldman Barrett > https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IQKCtpA79tFTNdQVmGXpk
Emotional Granularity > https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-the-right-words/202310/calling-emotions-by-name
Moodlight > https://app.moodlight.team/

Maybe I'm doodling

ADAD cc-by-sa Laura Hilliger

I've spent years ignoring connection requests on LinkedIn with my rule "have I actually worked with you and are you competent", I might have to change my strategy. In the past, I've accepted the occasional rando because I was a questioning my identity that day and thinking maybe I need to connect with "powerful people" in order to have impact. Hello dude who was VP at Coursera in 2013 or whenever.

I'm not sure why I'm telling you this. I guess it's the January ebb in which I grow concerned that I will not have enough to do this year. At the same time, I'm not one flailing around for ideas on how to spend my time.

Now I'm on BlueSky for some reason > https://bsky.app/profile/epilepticrabbit.bsky.social
And writing stuff on Medium > https://blog.weareopen.coop/how-to-find-the-right-mental-models-for-your-audience-c68097a7f0ed
Moving the Goalposts > https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/new-years-resolution/

Indeed, since the 26th of December I've managed to start and keep on a project that I've titled "A Doodle A Day" (ADAD). ADAD has yielded up until now 24 doodles and distinct lessons for myself. Lesson #16: A ghost could, theoretically, wear pants. Lesson #11: The sound of the pen on the page is it's own reward.

Maybe I need help?

I've finished writing something and I dunno what to do with it. I have an essay about grief that I shared here in FBT once upon a many moons ago, and it is on a password protected page. I wrote a post of flash fiction paired with AI. These bits are completely unrelated but they kind of tie together. Do I make a new space for such things?

Maybe soon. Maybe soon. How are you?

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