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
Over the years, I've learned to distinguish between two fundamentally different approaches to therapy: one that helps me cope with broken systems, and another that helps me understand why those systems are broken in the first place.
The first approach keeps me functional within dysfunction—teaching me breathing exercises while the world burns,... See more
The first approach keeps me functional within dysfunction—teaching me breathing exercises while the world burns,... See more
Michell C. Clark • My therapist can't save me from capitalism, and yours can't save you, either
As I’ve been suggesting through my last few pieces, these subjects and news stories are more like the figures on the TV than the ground on which we actually live. Yes, they are real events and have real repercussions. But to most of us, most of these phenomena are not directly related to our lived, moment-to-moment experience. Even if our house is... See more
Everything is In-Between
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
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I spent years believing that finding my voice would save me—as if the perfect arrangement of words could heal all wounds and bridge every misunderstanding.
Shut Up and Thrive: My Counterintuitive Path To Personal Power
Building collective organizations as 'mids' to hedge against randomness and create sustainable success beyond individual content creation
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Now, imagine the following situation. What if you formed an organization with 10 or maybe 100 other people, and here's how this works. You're going to cooperate together in that you're all going to brand yourselves collectively, like as if you were a band or a magazine or a sports club or something.
You're creating this thing, and that's the mid. A
... See moreDo not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to... See more