Bec Lee
@bec_nicole
Bec Lee
Drawing someone, capturing not so much their likeness but their spirit, is the stuff of infatuation; it took on a different energy with someone I’d known, and adored, for almost twenty years.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight... See more
The Renaissance Man: an Antidote to Self-Improvement
There must always be the confidence that the effect of truthfulness can be realized in the mind of the oppressor as well as the oppressed. There is no substitute for such a faith.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.”
Truth is a concept of the human intellect that arises after infancy. There are three culturally sanctioned concepts of truth: perceptual, explanatory (which includes memories) and predictive. They are meant to correspond to present, past and future external states of affairs, respectively.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
An adjective to describe the hero > An adjective to describe the bad guy, and… > A compelling goal we identify with as human beings
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
This use of narrative to simplify the complex is also true of memory. Human memory is ‘episodic’ (we tend to experience our messy pasts as a highly simplified sequences of causes and effects) and ‘autobiographical’ (those connected episodes are imbued with personal and moral meaning).
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
This loss of agency over our own attention that many of us are experiencing is not about willpower. It’s about neuroscience:
yana yuhai • how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)
so lately, i’ve been trying to re-learn. not to be good at things. not to master them. but to remember what it feels like to live inside my life without constantly asking it to justify itself. hobbies, i’m realizing, are less about skill and more about permission. permission to be a beginner again. permission to be mediocre. permission to fail... See more