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How to be a compassionate person without being a dumping ground - GPT nails this one
How different is it between allowing people to have an opinion on things (and vent to you) vs allowing negativity in your life? Like I don’t want to consume this negative energy, that I feels like presumably can be just due to the person chose to wear the negative
... See moreSociety often presents female empowerment as a binary: either a woman is independent and strong, or she is vulnerable and emotional. Gerwig refuses to play into this false dichotomy. Jo can be ambitious and lonely, confident and uncertain. This refusal to simplify Jo into a symbol makes her one of the most deeply realized characters in modern... See more
At times, even today, I see her ashamed, thawing. It only takes a baby misstep: caught from the wrong angle or tangled in bad feedback, cut with a tinge of criticism, pinned down by a thought of a mythical woman that once reigned my side of the bed, or broken by a bad day. She’s five, she’s thirteen, she’s twenty one, inadequate and alien, making a... See more
things i no longer believe in
Self-compassion
I had reserved cautiousness for his sense of self and he was quite careless with mine.
things i no longer believe in
Love
On optimisation
Never admiting to misery because it makes you look weak
I used to research as a student. Now I do it in the hours between a full-time job and the rest of my life.
g.m. • How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
Research is an art. A soft craft. A quiet ritual. Not the sterile kind you’re taught in school—full of rigid referencing and bibliographies in 11-point font—but the kind where you sit hunched over your desk at dusk, reading something half-relevant, and stumble upon a sentence that makes your stomach drop. That’s the magic part.
g.m. • How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
If your work is to have integrity, it must come from the inside. Everything you need to be creative you've probably possessed since you were ten years old. Just show up, regardless of the results, and scream down the well with every inch of your lungs. That’s how you get a career.