Why do I feel better after a break?
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Evan's spot on I think and the science may be something to do with the cascade from cortisol to endorphins. Which may be the endo signature of humility, if there is such a thing. Maybe it's possible to stay there.
@lobotomize-me said in Why do I feel better after a break?:
sounds good but as you mentioned it is hard to apply
@lobotomize-me said in Why do I feel better after a break?:
professional basketball
How's your anticipation of this. Pro's a lot of pressure right.
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@Corngold I agree with everything you said about needing to rebound from mistakes quickly. But I got confused by the last paragraph, I didn't understand its relevance to the topic
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@ThinPicking @evan-hinkle I understand that it may be cortisol, and if I can reduce that stress somehow, it would help me. But the problem is that I don’t know how. I need some kind of delusion, some kind of broken mind. Simply humiliating myself wouldn’t remove the pressure (I don’t even feel it, yet it affects me, revealing itself in my perception of the moment, as if I were a sheep in a cage) from me, as it has nothing to do with the game
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@lobotomize-me said in Why do I feel better after a break?:
I understand that it may be cortisol, and if I can reduce that stress somehow, it would help me. But the problem is that I don’t know how.
Maybe not so much the cortisol or the stress but what happens after. Suppose you wobble at the edge of a very high ledge, for a moment you think you're about to fall off and die but you don't. You know the feeling of relief.
I need some kind of delusion, some kind of broken mind.
Or a truth. You can get there. Don't stop trying.
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@lobotomize-me said in Why do I feel better after a break?:
I need some kind of delusion, some kind of broken mind.
THE INFINITE by Leopardi
Always to me beloved was this lonely hillside
And the hedgerow creeping over and always hiding
The distances, the horizon's furthest reaches.
But as I sit and gaze, there is an endless
Space still beyond, there is a more than mortal
Silence spread out to the last depth of peace,
Which in my thought I shape until my heart
Scarcely can hide a fear. And as the wind
Comes through the copses sighing to my ears,
The infinite silence and the passing voice
I must compare: remembering the seasons,
Quiet in dead eternity, and the present,
Living and sounding still. And into this
Immensity my thought sinks ever drowning,
And it is sweet to shipwreck in such a sea.Translated from the Italian of LEOPARDI by HENRY REED
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@ThinPicking the question is how can one reach that relief consistently through science or something one can replicate?
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Corngold's piece there is pretty good. Learn it by heart.
Other than that, this. Or the 'delusion' you went for first. Such is a big part of life after all.
@ThinPicking said in Why do I feel better after a break?:
Or a truth.
Who are you. Where are you. What the hell is going on. etc.
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@ThinPicking i cannot seem to understand the second part of your message
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You'll be like the office space guy in 3 days. Sleep well.
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@ThinPicking what in the heavens does that even mean
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On the one hand I'm fobbing you off for comedy. It's late you know.
On the other hand there's a guy in a film that appears to have been lobotomised by incomprehensible babble and aces everything thereafter.