{"id":13234,"date":"2019-06-12T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=13234"},"modified":"2019-06-12T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:44:08","slug":"magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2019\/06\/12\/magic\/","title":{"rendered":"magic is just persistent curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been circling around a few thoughts recently, and it&#8217;s about the idea of &#8220;magic&#8221;. I guess also semi-joked that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1131961466897063936\">I want to be a shaman<\/a>. It all feels connected. This idea of&#8230; the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1127394499078922241\">special world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just some related, relevant tweets for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1040199233532440576\">I believe school made me worse at writing and socializing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1137972543443226624\">I advise people to be attentive but they often think it&#8217;s too much effort<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1096310279011426304\">flirting is an ooda loop<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1137973292457795585\">flirting is about playing with rules and boundaries, teasing around them while paying close attention to your partner<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1014464412105625601\">finite players play within boundaries, infinite players play with boundaries<\/a><\/li><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1138286753142329344\">magic&#8221; is curiosity + attentiveness +  persistence + willingness to revise and re-evaluate everything<\/a>. And it only <em>seems<\/em> magical because the average person is not very curious, not very attentive, not very persistent and not very willing to revise and re-evaluate everything.<\/li><li>Children are naturally curious, attentive&#8230;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1015531299438669825\">people accept the death of creativity the way they accepted the death of mothers and children in childbirth<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1104383047435051008\">authoring your own status games saves money<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1043362746073411584\">learning to be sensitive to other people&#8217;s needs is a top tier skill<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been circling around a few thoughts recently, and it&#8217;s about the idea of &#8220;magic&#8221;. I guess also semi-joked that I want to be a shaman. It all feels connected. This idea of&#8230; the special world. Here are just some related, relevant tweets for now. I believe school made me&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching-for-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-magic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}