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You need people who understand you're not just up against personal blocks, but systemic ones. People who can support you to navigate through real resistance, not just internal doubt.
When you're challenging patriarchal conditioning, you need witnesses who understand what you're up against.
When you're challenging patriarchal conditioning, you need witnesses who understand what you're up against.
Why brilliant women can solve everyone's problems – except our own
TikTok - Make Your Day
tiktok.com…believing in the naturalness of your mother tongue shows a lack of serious engagement with language and belies the entire premise of modern literature. This is why I believe that existing outside of one's mother tongue is not exceptional, but simply an extreme version of the normal state of things.
Yoko Tawada • Exophony
umwelt (a term coined by the zoologist Jakob von Uexkull): the [particular ways in which an] animal perceives the immense world.
EY: • What Counts as Seeing
The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, requires you to cross a moat of low status, a period of time where you are actually bad at the thing or fail to know things that are obvious to other people.
It’s called a moat both because you can’t just leap to the other side and because it gives anyone who can ... See more
It’s called a moat both because you can’t just leap to the other side and because it gives anyone who can ... See more
Cate Hall • How to be More Agentic
But struggling is not evidence that you’ve tried everything. To the contrary, the continuous need for willpower may be the sign of a badly-engineered life.