Dilta Benny

‘The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done ... The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.’

The non-directive mode is especially useful when you have only a half-baked idea or an intuition that needs to be articulated more explicitly. You want the AI to trigger your own reflection but never define what the exact output of this reflection should be.

a gold-standard measure, the Self-Reported Automaticity Index. This short questionnaire asks you if a given behaviour is, for example, something ‘I do automatically’, ‘I do without thinking’, or ‘I do without having to consciously remember’.

overintellectualising tells you that once you understand yourself enough, movement will feel obvious. life tends to do the opposite, it asks you to move first, then understand what happened later.

thinking keeps the future hypothetical. as long as something stays hypothetical, it can’t disappoint you in any concrete way.

it feels like insight, like growth, like you’re doing the inner work until you realise you haven’t moved at all.

You get into a state of flow where you’re so immersed in what you’re doing that you lose track of time

I had to fight really hard to learn to be kind because when you're raised without kindness, it's something you have to hone like any other skill.

but when he grips my wrist casually, my lungs flood like a gutter in a storm. he apologizes, says he’ll do better , and i hate him for making my trauma his redemption arc.