Reminders for myself

You can’t access the limbic brain — the amygdala or hippocampus — through talking.

This is the paradox of convenience: it promises more time, more ease, more freedom, but often delivers the opposite. The more we optimize, the more we isolate. The more frictionless our interactions become, the less real they feel.

When we stop trying to optimise ourselves within broken systems and start building something entirely new, something that trusts our inner wisdom, conserves our energy, and values our wellbeing, extraordinary things become possible.

Life actually gets easier when you let it be difficult.

We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.

The neurons in your limbic system are making new connections to your frontal cortex. By changing the way a memory is processed, the protein structure of that memory shifts — that’s neuroplasticity.