The Science of Spontaneity: Mastering Wu-Wei
Start your free trial of Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/nXOE3d). In this 5-part Big Think Mentor workshop Edward Slingerland teaches you how to apply the ...
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In order to understand what effortless action is you have to understand what effort is and what effort feels like. And I think the best way to do that is the so-called stroop test. So we're gonna flash a word on the screen and you should say aloud the color that it's printed in. We don't care what the word says, just the color. So here it goes. All right. So that was probably fairly easy. Did it fast. You had no confusion. I'm gonna flash another word now. Same thing. Only want to know the color it's in. We don't care about what it says. So unless you're some kind of space alien, you paused or you said the wrong thing. You said green or you said gr-red. So that kind of feeling of having to stop yourself and override a natural reaction and then impose another react...
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In order to understand what effortless action is you have to understand what effort is and what effort feels like. And I think the best way to do that is the so-called stroop test. So we're gonna flash a word on the screen and you should say aloud the color that it's printed in. We don't care what the word says, just the color. So here it goes. All right. So that was probably fairly easy. Did it fast. You had no confusion. I'm gonna flash another word now. Same thing. Only want to know the color it's in. We don't care about what it says. So unless you're some kind of space alien, you paused or you said the wrong thing. You said green or you said gr-red. So that kind of feeling of having to stop yourself and override a natural reaction and then impose another react...
