recovery
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.comWhen David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking
Dylano on Substack
I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?
Lincoln Michel • Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.
Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet
The least sexy advice on behaviour change nobody wants to hear?
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.
Shane Copeland on Substack
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
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