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Each time distress is ignored, dismissed or harshly judged, the original experience of emotional abandonment is quietly repeated. Over time, this patt

“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not

The way you understand what we can do is look at what we have done.

anyone else wake up at 3am consumed with a burning rage to aggressively attack every issue in their life only to wake up 5 hours later at 8am with ze

“I don’t remember my childhood.” Lemme guess, you have allergies + you poop weird + you sleep weird + you feel dizzy when you stand up quickly + you’r

Instructions before visiting Earth In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic

The way you understand what we can do is look at what we have done.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from ch

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your

Bullshit, unlike lying, works by making you unconcerned with whether speech is true or false. The bullshitter, like the sophists of antiquity, does no

1. Good human decisions combine general knowledge with context-specific information.2. Human effort directed at improving cognition generates both typ

Taste is unconscious competence

"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har

Before you heal someone you must ask them if they are willing to give up the things that made them. • Sick people cry out for change yet cling to the

1. Good human decisions combine general knowledge with context-specific information.2. Human effort directed at improving cognition generates both typ

Everything is made up. Go make up a life that’s gentler on yourself.

Self-sabotage is what happens when we refuse to consciously meet our innermost needs, often because we do not believe we are capable of handling them.

Self-sabotage often starts as self-protection. And at the root of self-sabotage, often, is a lack of self-belief. And nothing is worse than a lack of

Instructions before visiting Earth In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic

I am a lot more powerful than I thought I was.  Will power, emotional depth, emotional capacity and range. I am serenity as the deepest and truest ess

"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har

Self-sabotage often starts as self-protection. And at the root of self-sabotage, often, is a lack of self-belief. And nothing is worse than a lack of

I am a lot more powerful than I thought I was.  Will power, emotional depth, emotional capacity and range. I am serenity as the deepest and truest ess

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. Hiding your core feelings takes an enormous amount o

"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har

Everything is made up. Go make up a life that’s gentler on yourself.

Before you heal someone you must ask them if they are willing to give up the things that made them. • Sick people cry out for change yet cling to the

Design is hope made visible. You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to

I am very affected by place. Actually I think everyone is. Probably more than they realize. Our surroundings act on us. Some foster chaos, others enco

Before you heal someone you must ask them if they are willing to give up the things that made them. • Sick people cry out for change yet cling to the

Before you heal someone you must ask them if they are willing to give up the things that made them. • Sick people cry out for change yet cling to the

Big picture: Nearly all Fortune 1000 corporations today operate as extractive monopolies, claiming ownership over common resources and global technolo

The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on e

1. Good human decisions combine general knowledge with context-specific information.2. Human effort directed at improving cognition generates both typ

The existentially gifted are idealists as they consider the limitless possibilities of how things could be. They are on a constant quest to connect wi

Childhood wounding does not always take a physical form. Our society typically recognizes the horror of physical child neglect, but not the emotional

As you remember these experiences, notice how you feel on a visceral level. A cognitive recounting will not suffice, unless it is connected strongly t

We pay the high price of our own emotional freedom when we allow ourselves to be stranded by others’ temperaments and actions.

Big picture: Nearly all Fortune 1000 corporations today operate as extractive monopolies, claiming ownership over common resources and global technolo

The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on e

Complexity increases because adding is easy and removing is dangerous. Whenever there's a problem, we add: a new person, requirement, or process. We

Programmer Ward Cunningham on reducing the cost of mistakes when making decisions: “I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions

Stop being nice and telling me what you think I want to hear (or what you are comfortable saying). Start being kind and tell me what I need to hear. I

Big picture: Nearly all Fortune 1000 corporations today operate as extractive monopolies, claiming ownership over common resources and global technolo

Avoiding “very…” A: Very accurate - exact Very afraid - fearful Very angry - furious Very annoying - exasperating B: Very bad - atrocious Very beautif

A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: I ate my friend's lunch. I ate my friend's colon.

The best art makes your head spin with questions. Perhaps this is the fundamental distinction between pure art and pure design. While great art makes

I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very pai

We are in a planet wide polycrisis. The most important question we can ask ourselves is, “Am I being a good ancestor?” Short term thinking < Long ter

“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnifi

Factor of Safety The use of more elements than is thought to be necessary to offset the effects of unknown variables and prevent system failure.' Desi

Life Cycle All products progress sequentially through four stages of existence: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. All products progress thr

Golden Ratio A ratio within the elements of a form, such as height to width, approximating 0.618. The golden ratio is the ratio between two segments s