You strap the system to your back and chest and it lets you feel the vibration of music through your body. I find the full-body experience of music makes listening to music or even a podcast with a lot of bass more of an immersive somatic experience rather than just a conceptual head thing.
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by? I really love that image, it helps me sometimes visualize the stream of Buddha nature flowing through all the lovely, flawed, living and slowly dying creatures that we all encounter every day.
As part of my role as an investor, I interview 4 to people a year to decide whether to hire them or invest in their various startups or investment funds, and the most useful mental model I have found to help understand what makes people tick is the one Barondes describes eloquently in his book. The academics who developed the model clumped every English adjective that could be used to describe someone into categories and reduced them to as small a set of factors as they could.
So if lots of people agreed they could call someone both gregarious and outgoing, they decided that was the same thing, they kept reducing that down until they got extraversion as a primary factor. For high openminded picture Leonardo Da Vinci For high conscientious picture Robo-cop For high extraverted picture Bill Clinton and high introverted picture Obama For low neuroticism picture the Dude from the Big Lebowski or the stereotypical Californian.
I could free associate about the Big Five for hours but will leave it there, if you want more then check out Sam Barondes book and Scott Barry Kaufman also is obsessed with the Big 5 and writes a bunch of useful stuff about it. Having a socialized mind dramatically influences the sending and receiving of information at work.
