Rebekah Noonan
@bekahnoon
Rebekah Noonan
Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards , ambition , discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror of being perceived as inadequate.
perfectionism is a form of shame
Because discomfort is the price of not rushing to fix.
It’s what shows up when you pause instead of perform.
It’s what you feel when you stop doing and start being.
Discomfort isn’t punishment. It’s information.
It tells you where the wound is. Where the pattern lives.
Where something in you is still convinced that worth must be earned through
... See moreIt is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1
how to get smart again: building a media syllabus
open.substack.com
— Grandma, how to do deal with pain?
— With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder.
— With our hands grandma?
— Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking,... See more
But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.
And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more
And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com