Dea T.

“Eros concerns the Other in a strong sense, namely, what cannot be encompassed by the regime of the ego. Therefore, in the inferno of the same, which contemporary society is increasingly becoming, erotic experience does not exist. Erotic experience presumes asymmetry and exteriority of the Other.”

I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.

Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.

When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become

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From there, I have a few go-to questions that I have found create reliably engaging discourse:

• What's your connection to [insert current place or event]?

• What are you most excited about currently?

• What's lighting you up outside of work?

• What’s your favorite book you’ve read recently?

Note: Always avoid "What do you do?" as a question. It's

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In point of fact, the intellect cannot justify the power of passion, and yet it naively considers itself obliged to deny that power. But in choosing to hear of other reasons but its own, the intellect errs; for it can go into the reasons of the heart if it so chooses, provided it does not insist on reducing them first to the calculation of reason.... See more

This project of seeking out a truth found elsewhere is, at its best, intersubjective in the Lacanian sense—a tending toward an other that placesthe self at risk

“The few moments of real presence you have ever felt in your life might mean that a god was inside someone near you, using them to see you. The few moments of real insight we’ve ever had about another might indicate that a god was inside us at that moment, using us to see them. When they brighten the characteristics of another person, it is like... See more