Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
From Waking Up
That’s when it hit me.
I knew my stories.
Suddenly, I was beating the blank page. The more life experiences I recalled, the more enriched and enlivened I became. It was as though I was just discovering the gifts hidden in my past. I’d never understood the importance of self-reflection. The truth is, life moves too quickly to fully appreciate or craft
... See moreRick Lewis • Why You Should Start Living in the Past
French existentialist philosopher and fellow multipotentialite Simone de Beauvoir argued that freedom isn't just the absence of constraints; it's the act of consciously defining oneself.
This freedom comes with ethical responsibilities — to make choices that align with one's core values and consider their impact on the world.
Creative Hackers • 🔄 Redefining Depth😳
"It's that essence, that essential quality life that gives us a sense of aliveness. [...] It's far beyond anything we can box up and label in any satisfactory way."
― Mukti Gray on the unknowable nature of the essential self
meaning-making and quotes
Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
Like the starry vibe
"This is another reason why the Spectral Revolution, unlike say the Copernican Revolution or the Darwinian Revolution, has been resisted for so long. The data have been there for over 120 years, and yet unconsciously, I think, people have resisted coming face to face with the reality of these phenomena, because they pose such fundamental challenges
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