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Storytelling
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Speak Human
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We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and the
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And so we do. But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.” We are not talk ing here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consump tion, a structural conceit for binding together a series of grace... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
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well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
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In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
Vita Benes
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Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator...
And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”
Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See more
And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”
Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See more
Seth's Blog : Generosity and fear
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