paradoxically
A collection of evidence that we live in a paradox
paradoxically
Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
“The long way is the short way.” In a cut-and-paste world that celebrates speed, we often mistake convenience for efficiency.
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier.
Esther Crawford ✨ • Tweet
Adversity always almost always, tends to unite groups… so is that what's in play here?
As the education scholar Todd Rose writes in The End of Average, this system is built upon “the paradoxical assumption that you could understand individuals by ignoring their individuality.”
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.
anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief
anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief
Will Manidis • Tweet
Right japanese bus… how do you explain yourself?
This is the kind of world we find ourselves in, and it’s not pleasant. Faced with facts this depressing, the question of the economy - or how many of us in this country can afford two cars doesn’t really loom too large, but you’d never know it from reading the papers. Things are in fact a lot worse elsewhere, where expectations center not on cars... See more
