Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to challenge assumptions
How to generate new ideas
How to break out of traditional thinking patterns
Our own virtual machines
We need nothing technical to help us focus more on our memories. Our minds can take in everything we've ever seen. We don't need a virtual reality machine. Our minds are the finest virtual machines.
We can shut our eyes and travel into the very best and most consoling and life-enhancing parts of our pasts.
108
152 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
"Traveling" trough our memories
This idea may sound a bit weird and even sad, but it has a real potential of comforting and sustaining us when we are in distress.
We usually are very negligent when it comes to curating our own memories: we push the important events at the back of our minds. But i
123
182 reads
A challenging concept
French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal stated: ‘The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.’
His idea focuses on one of our common beliefs: that we must always go somewhere to feel and discover new and worthwhile things. Perhaps our re...
188
301 reads
The encouragement to think
Few of us dedicate their time to solitary thinking that can restore our spirits and move our lives ahead.
When we spend time in quiet thinking, we create an occasion for the mind to make some order and understand itself. Emotions and feelings become easier to name, we grow less scared...
146
231 reads
A good mindset
The pleasure we find in traveling is maybe more related to our mindset than to the destination we travel to.
The core traits of this mindset are receptivity, appreciation, and gratitude. We don't have to wait for a journey to use this mindset. We can apply it to our own house and ...
129
199 reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Related collections
More like this
Digitizing The Self and Virtual Immortality
Virtual Immortality follows a similar path, depending on how we define consciousness.
- It is possible to upload a virtual self if consciousness is entirely physical.
- In case of consciousness being an independent entity, if it is understood and studied, then it is possible to ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates