Akwaeke Emezi Won’t Tell You How to Feel
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Akwaeke Emezi Won’t Tell You How to Feel
If you try to address the emotions only with your intellect, you will feel stuck, because nothing truly transformative will happen.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
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- When you’re feeling small, remind yourself this is the artist’s struggle and find comfort in Anna Quindlen’s words: Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, i... See more
from Check your Pulse #49 by Sari Azout
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True art only occurs when you’re nobody-but-yourself. This requires you to fully feel your gut feelings. Whenever you forget this, you’re basically a mediocre LLM, assembling other people’s ideas by running simple scripts on biological hardware. Art isn’t assembly.
from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian
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- Children don’t need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged
from How to Talk so Kids Will Listen...And Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
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Embodied empathy doesn’t allow you to betray yourself and give more than you have.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
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- But I’ve never truly loved anything that didn’t move me to my core. I can’t help but wonder if all this effort we’re putting into keeping work at arm’s length is actually holding us back from being our best selves.
from What I Miss About Working at Stripe by every.to
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You know that your parents love you, but you don’t necessarily feel it.
from Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children by Jonice Webb