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Multiple readers have noted that this is very similar to a method called “Thinking At the Edge”, taught by Eugene Gendlin. I don’t know much about Thinking At the Edge, but what little I do know suggests that he and I have developed his focusing work in similar directions, perhaps for similar reasons. If you like this essay, you might want to check out Gendlin’s introduction to Thinking At the Edge. There are a lot of different ways to dance. In one kind of dancing, you move your body around spontaneously in response to music. That’s a fun dance that even infants can do. But some dances have a more specific goal than “fun”. Partner dances enable conversation through touch and motion rather than symbolic language. Folk dances encourage participation in the soul of a community. Ballet pairs choreography with music to tell a story. If you’ve ever tried any of these specialized dances, you know that they take deliberate effort to learn. Similarly, there are a lot of different ways to engag

x Catching the Spark — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2021 Curiosity Focusing Motivations Techniques Rationality Curated 127 Catching the Spark by LoganStrohl 30th Jan 2021 43 min read 21 127 Multiple readers have noted that this is very similar to a method called “Thinking At the Edge”, taught by Eugene Gendlin. I don’t know much about Thinking At the Edge, but what little I do know suggests that he and I have developed his focusing work in similar directions, perhaps for similar reasons. If you like this essay, you might want to check out Gendlin’s introduction to Thinking At the Edge . There a

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