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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You've been using the wrong drugs.
I've been meditating for a while. And I've done a variety of drugs. So I speak from experience.
Meditation, like drugs, gets you high and changes your perceptions.
Meditation, unlike drugs, takes effort and practice. It's also way way smoother. And there's no ceiling.
And here's a thing. Consider the act of concentrating your attention. The control, clarity and depth of perception that it brings. It's something that we all use. Every scientist, engineer and artist uses concentration as his main tool, without which none of that would be possible. Concentration is the backbone of our culture.
One meditation technique (we basically have 2) takes that further. It takes that awesome power of concentration to very deep and strange places. Magical even. But still, it's just that same old familiar magic that we all depend on, just taken further.
(Therefore, if you respect science, technology and art, then you must pay equal if not greater respect to a further venture into the depths of concentration. Right? I mean, that follows)
And then there is another meditation technique too.