how to feel like who I am?
When you step into the Moat of Low Status, you also step away from the grinding of normalcy. On your first day of dance class, you don’t know how to move your body. Isn’t that exciting? You don’t know how to move your body. This thing you’ve been lugging around is now a whole new vehicle — it might move like a frenzied wolverine, or an indifferent... See more
Cate Hall • Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
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People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
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Let me present a very simple personal software need that shows how ridiculous the state of the ecosystem is:
My grandma barely knows how to use messaging apps- I tell her I sent her some pictures, she doesn’t know how to open it / doesn’t want to read or look at other messages. Phone app is too much. She just wants a... See more
Tyler Angertx.comMartin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
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It is easy to tell how happy someone is to see another person enter a conversation. There is happy, and there is polite, and they look very different. Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level. There is an openness, allowing another person to surprise and delight them. The easiest way to say this: there is no script for happy. It tumbles out of the body. Polite comes from the mind –it is restrained and calculated – measured lines and pauses. There are reinforcing loops in a polite person and a happy person. A person closed to the possibility of delight finds less of it. A person open to it finds more.