Paradise Engineering —A Jason Silva Saturday
“Our self-systems are like leaky buckets. No matter how much pleasure we’re getting, we’re bleeding from our many holes” – Jamie Weil
There’s something I never really gave any thought to: While human beings are wired for pleasure, sadly, we are incapable of collecting and stockpiling joy?
No one can argue that we are experts at doing that with fear and anxiety. It seems as if humans are hardwired to hoard all of those bottom feeding emotions. Collecting them in the storage unit parts of our brains that we visit much too often.
When something good happens I always say to my friends, “Wow! I’m going to live off the fumes of THIS for a while!” Because I have to remind myself to do that.
To inhale deeply while it lasts.
Because…Fumes!
The joy leaves only fumes while the shit sticks. It sets up camp inside my narrative complete with a big old tent, a canoe, some jet skis, a generator, and a box of graham crackers.
Am I right?
In other words, after a peak experience, we as realists go right back to chopping wood, carrying water.
“After the ecstasy, the laundry.” ~ Puritan mindset
Shouldn’t we try and change that? I think so. So does Jason. Take a quick listen.
Carry on,
xox
