recovery

Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE

Most people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-

1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.

2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.

The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

the price you pay for depth is slowness

Yasmeen • Tweet

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.

Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

newsflash buddy “motivation” is actually a metric for the strength of the narratives/personal myths you tell yourself

sof 𓋹 • Tweet

All addiction, at its heart, is addiction to unconsciousness.

It doesn’t matter if it’s social media addiction or heroin addiction.

The addict is always trying to block out consciousness by covering it in stimulation or numbness.

This means the cure to addiction is always more consciousness.

But consciousness can’t just be willed into existence.

Instead... See more

Vacha • Tweet

This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:

“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?”

And he’ll