Feeling > Thinking
As much as we know about how crazy, weird, talented, and insightful people can be, we are blind to perhaps 99.99999999% of it. The most prolific over-sharers disclose maybe a thousandth of one percent of what they’ve been through and what they’re thinking.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
“It’s uncomfortable being two: me for me and me for others.”
A Breath of Life (Um sopro de vida), Clarice Lispector
And if there’s one thing I know it’s that writing comes out of tension, tension between what’s inside and what’s outside.
Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)
The startling findings were that people made better choices when not thinking at all, especially in complex consumer settings.
The researchers argued that this is because our unconscious processes are less constrained than conscious processes, which make huge demands on our cognitive system. Unconscious processes, such as intuition, function in ways
... See moreTo What Extent Are We Ruled by Unconscious Forces? - Neuroscience News
I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,