Fully Embodied World Perception
Our bodies are not afterthoughts of our brains or unnecessary to the interpretation of the world. Those eyes on those skulls on those necks, atop those torsos and legs, and feet the move, that is all part of perception. Perception is therefore an action. The more you move, the more integrated and whole your perception of the world is likely to be. Movement increases wisdom, so too as does exposure to diverse views, experiences, and places. Nature is still available to us, let us spend time in it and so doing generates strength and calibrates our understanding of our own significance.
Humans are evolved to be anti-fragile. We grow stronger with exposure to manageable risks, with the pushing of boundaries, and fostering openness to serendipity and to that we don’t know. This is true to bones and brains. Doing things with not negotiable outcomes in the physical world; playing sports, growing vegetables, ascending a peak, provide corrective action to a lot of wrong-headed ideas currently passing for sophisticated. Some are, all reality is a social construct, emotional pain is the same as physical pain, life is and can be made perfectly safe.
You can fool a person and they can fool you, but you cannot fool a surfboard or a barbell. So, seek out physical reality not just social experience. Pursue feedback from the vast universe that exists beyond human beings. Give yourself challenges that exceed your ability or experience, and watch your reactions when the feedback comes in. The more time you spend pitting your intellect against realities that can’t be coursed with manipulation or sweet-talk, the less likely you are for blaming others for your own errors.
