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Let them judge.

Let them question.

Let them raise their eyebrows and write your personality into two sentences, and decide they know your story.

Let them misread your softness as weakness.

Let them call your joy “too much.”

Let them say you’ve changed.

Let them talk.

And while they’re busy forming opinions in their head, as you live.

You create.

You rest.

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Slowly, clumsily, with a lot of false starts and internal arguments. Because let’s be honest, not caring what people think is a lie we tell ourselves too quickly.

We care. Of course we do.

We're wired to.

We want to belong.

We want to be understood.

But there's a difference between wanting to be understood and living in fear of being misunderstood.

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but I truly don’t believe you can experience the full depth of certain moments when they’re filtered through the presence of another person. These moments—these experiences—are what shape your life.

Donald Glover in the multi-disciplinary stage. In viewing his past we can see that he spends years working on the skills of his craft before he’s excellent at it.

The problem of staying in the multi-passionate stage

The multi-passionate stage alone does not naturally take someone towards mastery, and at some point restricts the possibility of it.

This is because the multi-passionate stage allows someone to follow all curious things and the focus is on the nurturance of the inner world. This is important but... See more

The multi-passionate stage focuses on nurturing the internal world of the self by being curious whereas the multi-disciplinary stage focuses on increasing the quality of the work created by selecting and deepening particular disciplines.

Multi passionate as Stage one and Multi disziplinär as Stage 2

It’s in this stage that decisions must be made.

Passions must be selected, skills must be perfected and virtues like humility must be lived through so as to become ships that can cross us over the waters of momentary hardship and into new terrain. If we are to experience Aristotle's entelechy—meaning the possible becoming actual—then we realise that we must sacrifice what we could be in exchange for what we are.

This stage is not one of ease, but it is one that sets those who are willing on a path where they can master multiple disciplines and by doing so, master themselves.

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).... See more

you. A personal canon is the books, essays, films, and even conversations that have shaped how you think and see the world. It’s not necessarily a list of favorites or even the best works you’ve consumed. Sometimes it might include works that you struggled with or maybe even disliked, but what’s important is that they stayed with you in a... See more

birthday bingo: make a list of tiny joys that fill your cup. buy flowers, text someone you love, take a photo, eat something sweet. tick them off as the day unfolds, like prizes you forgot you’d already won.

Fantasy-work is your responsibility. If you don’t advocate for your own fantasy you will be living inside someone else’s.

The Lost Art Of Alter Egos.