Claudiu
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Why desire — not resilience — leads to longevity
bigthink.com
Of all his provocative ideas, the one that lingers with me most is his argument that while “resilience” is celebrated, it’s often a dead end in practice. He’s urged me to reframe resilience itself as desire. “We’ve glorified resilience as this virtue,” he told me. “Bounce back, return to normal, weather the storm. But the literal definition of resilience is the ability of a system to return to its original baseline after being disturbed.” He continues:
Key quote: “That’s fine if you’re a rubber band. But in nature — and in human systems — survival doesn’t come from returning to where you were. It comes from becoming something you weren’t before. The most enduring systems — biological, social, or economic — don’t revert. They evolve. Resilience is static. It’s about homeostasis. Evolution is dynamic. It’s driven by dissonance, by collapse, by moments of rupture that force entirely new structures of being to emerge.”
The Harsh Truths About MEN Nobody Wants to Admit
(I found this interesting.)
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1. Men are only loved based on what they provide.
A man without money, status, or value is invisible to society—even to his own family.
2. Men don’t get sympathy, only expectations.
A struggling man is mocked, not helped. The world doesn’t care about
... See more“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
When you shift your worldview from scarcity to possibility, something remarkable happens: not only do you feel better, you become a source of energy and innovation for others.
Your children stop seeing the future as something to fear and start seeing it as something to create. Your colleagues approach challenges with curiosity rather than dread.... See more
Your children stop seeing the future as something to fear and start seeing it as something to create. Your colleagues approach challenges with curiosity rather than dread.... See more
“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous
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