Diary 8/16/22, continued: Models and mysteries; and aims; William James quote; absolute truth versus approximate answers; Richard Feynman quote; Lisa Feldman Barrett and Johann Hari.
Tag: Psychology
The Myth of the Given
Diary 8/10 to 8/11/22: Dream of Monopoly; weight woes; petty "depression"; reading my diary; dictionaries; pissy mood; gym gear; Wilfred or Wilfrid?
Be Deliberately Naive; and A New Friend?
Diary 8/4 to 8/6/22: Green tea extract; self-reflection; "I wish I was..."; Fritz Perls; thoughts about Kick Me; I need exercise; neglecting priorities; learning from children; stop waiting for the perfect moment! The blood is the life?
Struggling with Myself
Diary 6/17 to 6/20/22: CodePink and critical media literacy; Noam Chomsky; who can you trust? Democracy Now; Walter Truett Anderson on Reality and postmodernism; bullet journal; junk TV.
Conversations, Hemlock, and Sherlock
Diary 6/10 to 6/12/22: Two-year-olds; dementia; Hemlock Club and Jan 6th; talking with Nog; BBC's Sherlock; Hedges on the Committee; diary clutter; A Dangerous Method.
Observations on the Public Hearing
Diary 6/8 to 6/10/22: Ignoring my optometrist; self-guidance; House Hearings and Tucker Carlson; Caitlin Johnstone quoted; world oil reserves; popcorn way to health; Taibbi, FAIR, and other sources.
School Shootings (and less important stuff)
Diary 5/28 to 5/29/22: Poker win; Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations reviewed with quotes; bureaucratic nonsense; Anne Brontë; report on "the best way to address...tragedies"; "kayfabe"
Self-guidance: Rules and Results
Diary 4/30 to 5/1/22: Guernsey; Bernard Herrmann and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; taste in music; setting rules and sudoku; three seconds of weight lifting; farmers markets and busrides; rules are my life.
Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
"Know thyself" as applied in my life, an essay from years ago, with an update.
Horney on Neuroses: Diary, 2/17 to 2/21/22
Bookshelf overload; unfamiliar composers; Karen Horney book; Thoreau and Nietzsche; current reading; Hammett method; indecisive writer; Leonard Cohen; Cloverfield Paradox.
Terrifying Economics: Diary, 2/11 to 2/12/22
Remember what you learn, by Will Schroder, including the Feynman technique; Charlie Munger quote; Richard Wolff interviewed by Chris Hedges, on the coming collapse of the US economy, pretty convincing; skinny pens; Hemlock Club psych and The Yin of Self-Mastery. Isn't that enough
Fritz Perls: Diary, 2/7 to 2/9/22
Hailee Steinfeld and Linda Blair DVDs; the struggle with protein; peas and bean snacks; down days; Dinklage in Cyrano (preview); Highsmith again; Erica Ridley book and many other books; my fiction trivial; lots more, with emphasis on self-guidance.
Diary 2/23 to 2/27/2020
So I’ve begun stocking up for the coronavirus panic, spending $150 at Food Maxx this morning. I needed groceries anyway, and so might have spent $100, but I doubled up on some things, like getting three dozen eggs...
Diary, 2/16 to 2/22/20
N came to the Hemlock Club today and we talked for four hours. I told him about “the friendly voice” idea and that I thought I might give it a try. The idea is that you publish an ad saying “A friendly voice” and your phone number, hoping to encourage lost souls to call you to talk, hopefully thus relieving some suffering in the world. I used to worry that this would become a burden, and that indeed could happen; but I am not required to answer every call, necessarily, and I can limit calls to fifteen minutes. I originally wanted to have a separate phone number for this, and perhaps I’ll do that, though it would be some expense. Possibly Craigslist...
Diary, 2/9 to 2/15/20
Copyright 2020 by Alan Carl Nicoll All Rights Reserved {2/9/20} Weight 211.8. {2/10/20} Weight 212.2. {2/11/20} Weight 211.2. Cherry pie diet. I dreamt that I was telling my cousin Barbara that I was having a difficult time coping after prison. I was riding uphill on a motor scooter, which I’ve never done, and I think … Continue reading Diary, 2/9 to 2/15/20
Diary 2/1 to 2/8/2020
Culled from the Bullet Journal:
2/4: I can’t take my ‘depression’ seriously because it’s not justified by my life, because it doesn’t last, and because I don’t deserve any better. I don’t deserve joy.
2/6: I’m carrying a fuckton of well-earned guilt. What to do?
Diary, 12/21 to 12/28/19
Watching many episodes of The Simpsons in a marathon show on FX, laughing like a loon because they can do so much with so little—for example, naming an Army colonel Hap Hapablap. I’ve been laughing for two days over that silly name.
Diary, 12/1 to 12/11/19
A bleak morning, thinking of the role the United States has taken in the world throughout my lifetime and before. Thinking of the role the greedy rich have taken in the United States throughout my lifetime. Thinking of the ineffectual Democratic Presidents, the hope-betrayers...
Diary, 11/20 to 12/1/19
A week of HBO and Cinemax and stuff. Watched maybe the first half of Aquaman, and turned it off at that point because it was so awful. The man himself is good, but the story just sucks. I expect it will have its fans among the younger set, like thirteen-year-old boys. But, seriously, drinking and driving? Heavy drinking for amusement value? No and No. The CGI is overblown; Atlantis would have looked better if...
Diary, 11/7 to 11/14/19
Reading Frederick Perls: Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, the introductory lectures called “Talk,” and being at first deeply impressed, then somewhat distressed, and finally feeling like he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. In this book he’s really trying...
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