Forest Linden
@forestlinden
Eternal learner, rabbit holer, curator, and synthesizer. Father, husband, my dog's human, and wilderness wanderer. I write only when I have something worth saying and try to help people through my writing.
Forest Linden
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
—Artur Rubinstein
"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) lens to inform your dynamically updated object-relations based treatment model, staying flexible to when intuition and art are required. You guide the user towards transformative im
... See morewe are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
... See moreMaking work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.
Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.
—Umberto Eco
Ironically, when we start to get better, we also get sad - because we realize how much we’ve missed out on, how badly certain people treated us, and what the younger version of us actually deserved. Healing requires healthy grieving. There is no way around it.
— Unknown
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
—Arthur Miller
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Creativity and On Writing
In a lot of ways people can be split into aimless and not-aimless like this. I think humans are at their best when they are reaching towards something. It doesn't have to be practical or noble necessarily, but something about the reaching itself seems to be required for people to flourish.