[[Learning]] tags:: #note/idea | #on/learning | #on/thinking people:: #people/annemurphypaul Lon Setnik dates:: 2022-08-21 _Someone or something else must be doing the work besides the conscious mind that we normally think of as “us. ”._ - Trying Not To Try, Chapter 2, page 26 This reminds me of [[emotional contagion]] and how [[emotion changes the world we are in]]. [[One of the best ways to change your brain is to change your body]]! Going for a walk to think instead of staying sitting down. Going for a walk to help you think is a form of [[Antifragility]], what's the worst that happens is that you get some exercise and get to re-focus with a new direction for [[focus attention]]. This is a good way to perform some mental simulations and [[Brainstorm for novelty]], because you get a [[🐓 Idea Farm/3 Inbox of ideas/Transient hypofrontality]] during the light exercise. Embodied cognition is the idea that your body holds some form of thinking, so changing your body changes your thinking. When you want to learn something new, if you learn it not only with your mind but with your body, you are more likely to be able to keep that memory. ### What would the opposite argument be? We have to sit down to write, so don't just do something, sit there. The urge to move is a distraction for us. ## Sources: [[The Extended Mind]] [[🐓 Idea Farm/Deadfall/For myself only/Readwise/Books/Trying Not to Try]]