Things that make you go Hmmmm

College isn’t insurance—It’s a nightclub. If colleges were normal businesses, with the entire world clamoring to get in, they’d increase enrollment. If they’re offering a great product, more people should benefit from it. But not universities. Because it's not about learning, it's about status.

Erik Torenberg • The Higher Education Bubble

“The therapeutic is necessary, but unless you stop the source of violence, it’s irrelevant.” - Joy James

How To Spot High Agency People

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Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.

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‍ Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill

George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes

I found the words that name the sickening song that has been playing in my shadows. I call it “Self As Drug” . The song goes like this:

I am valuable when I help others feel better.

I am responsible for regulating the emotions of people I love.

If I say no, I will hurt people.

If I set a boundary, I am betraying them.

If someone is hurting, I am... See more

Recovering From The "Self-as-Drug" Mindset

The secret place AI can't see

Alex Dobrenko sublimeinternet.substack.com

Now I understand that silence can be more powerful than speech. Not speaking up can sometimes be a greater act of self-love than any amount of self-expression. When you stop explaining yourself to people who are determined to misunderstand you, you reclaim your energy for the connections that truly matter.

Michell C. Clark • Shut Up and Thrive: My Counterintuitive Path To Personal Power

Fabre d'Olivet, made a right comparison when he wished to show how the highest, noblest, purest in human nature arises out of pain. He said that the arising of wisdom and beauty out of suffering is comparable to a process in nature, to the birth of the valuable and beautiful pearl. For the pearl is born from the sickness of the oyster, from the... See more

I. The Origin of Suffering—GA 55. Origin of Suffering, Origin of Evil, Illness and Death—Rudolf Steiner Archive

A plan is not a list of things that won’t happen. It is an evolving blueprint that structures your mind to notice ideas that lead to progress.

Dan Koe • The Fastest Way Create a New Life

The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us makes. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do.