Thought provoking
Move from seeing to beholding : To see a situation is to catch the facts of the matter. To behold it is to witness the story. If you dwell entirely with statistics and data, you will be a burnt match within months. Move from just seeing the world to beholding the world. Seeing is assessment and analysis; beholding is wonder and curiosity.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
It is a system designed to keep women trapped in an eternal hamster wheel of low self-worth and misery; to starve them spiritually while keeping them fat and fed on a diet of beauty gunk, Shein junk, PopSlop, and TikTok. It is a system designed to prevent us from rising above the sea of shit we are born into. From becoming thought leaders. From... See more
father_karine • The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
this is why i think my borderline delusional sense of self-belief is one of the things that i should actually hold on tightly to. I’d rather be occasionally annoying to others than a misery to myself at all times
The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking. It always was. Not punditry, allegory, or mandate, but mythmaking. The creation of stories. We are tuned to do so, right down to our bones. The bewilderment, vivacity, and downright slog of life requires it. And such emerging art forms are not to cure or even resolve uncertainty but to deepen into... See more
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
An epistemic bubble is when you don’t hear people from the other side. An echo chamber is what happens when you don’t trust people from the other side.
C Thi Nguyen • Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays
Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reminds us to live and work with a calm persistence:
"Without haste, yet without rest."
Note: Goethe's original example was a star orbiting the sun: steady and unhurried, but always in motion.
"Without haste, yet without rest."
Note: Goethe's original example was a star orbiting the sun: steady and unhurried, but always in motion.
I’ve spoken with one of my favorite professors about this. He cautions heavily against placing the pressure of publication on your first novel. He says that in any other career, we wouldn’t expect our first attempt to be worthy of anything—recognition, publication, etc. Think of most musician’s first songs, most painter’s first paintings, or most... See more
Your First Novel Might Not Be Your Debut
All Relationships Are Transactional
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commodification of community is such a sad part of late-stage capitalism. University is one of the last times in life most of us are able to access community, for “free”
