%% [[Peak performance]] tags:: #note/idea | #on/cbt | #on/ego | #on/self | #on/stillness people:: #people/edwardslinglerland # Wu Wei Lon Setnik dates:: 2022-08-02 %% *Be like water, flow around the rock, slowly be present with it, let it shape you.* This reminds me of how [[we are all the hero of our own story]], we also [[We see the world in stories]], so in many ways [[Ego Is The Enemy]] and causes us to react negatively. It's kind of like how we exist best when we use [[interoception]]. This is a philosophy of existing that is going with the flow, rowing downstream, and using the energy of the world the way it really is to help make your life less one of suffering and conflict. This matters because conflict is a choice. When you choose to live in peace and harmony, you are [[Identifying Reality]], and trying to [[To build better habits, change your identity]] to be one of peace. > **Wu Wei** (Chinese: 無為; pinyin: wúwéi) is an ancient Chinese concept literally meaning "inexertion", "inaction", or "effortless action". Wu wei emerged in the Spring and Autumn period, and from Confucianism, to become an important concept in Chinese statecraft and Taoism. It was most commonly used to refer to an ideal form of government, including the behavior of the emperor. Describing a state of unconflicting personal harmony, free-flowing spontaneity and savoir-faire, it generally also more properly denotes a state of spirit or mind, and in Confucianism accords with conventional morality. > > Sinologist Jean François Billeter describes wu-wei as a "state of perfect knowledge of the reality of the situation, perfect efficaciousness and the realization of a perfect economy of energy", which in practice Edward Slingerland qualifies as a "set of ('transformed') dispositions (including physical bearing)... conforming with the normative order". > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20wei) [[Flow]] is more about being involved fully in the moment than it is about matching complexity and ramping complexity. It’s about internal goals instead if external goals. ### What would the opposite argument be? How can you change the world if you are not creating some conflict? ## Sources: Wikipedia From [https://overcast.fm/+sZm3fegxI](https://overcast.fm/+sZm3fegxI) Darren. (2019, November 19). Wu-Wei and What Ancient Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about Peak Performance. _UpStartist_. [https://upstartist.tv/ase/wu-wei/](https://upstartist.tv/ase/wu-wei/) ![[The Way of Heaven]]