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Tommy Dixon on Substack
Brackett reports that when you ask people in public where they are on the mood meter, almost everybody will say they are having positive emotions. When you ask people in confidential surveys where they are, 60 to 70 percent will put themselves on the negative-emotion side of the mood meter. That result is haunting, because it suggests that many of
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Jamey: Exactly. Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “Our moods do not believe in each other.” When you’ve coped with depression, you know how enveloping it can be, and how seductively it can convince you that the darkness which it discloses is the sum total of reality. Then it passes. Andrew: Yep. Been there enough to know that. Jamey: I figured. Andrew: Go
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Most of your life can become the effort to avoid pain, to experience pleasure, and to pretend everything is OK, even though something feels amiss.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Despite formulaic acknowledgements that of course others have it worse, the basic claim remains the same: “The persistent low grade dysfunction I am experiencing is a social problem.”
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
Angry people are always in search of others they can be angry at. Anger is unattractive. Anger is stupid. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others. He misperceives what the other person said so he can have a pretext to go on the vicious attack. Worst of all, anger escalates. People are always talking about ventin
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