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Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism.
Parakeet • Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization
If you keep experiencing the same problem with multiple people... then the problem is not the other people.
The common factor in this equation is you. You're either stuck in a set of inaccurate beliefs around how something is supposed to be. Or you're behaving in ways that keep attracting certain kinds of people and/or situations.
The common factor in this equation is you. You're either stuck in a set of inaccurate beliefs around how something is supposed to be. Or you're behaving in ways that keep attracting certain kinds of people and/or situations.
I used to hate small talk until this changed my perspective
W. David Marx, who bridges mimetic desire and cultural production in his book, Status and Culture, argues that the value of cultural goods like music, fashion, and art usually derives not from their intrinsic merits, but the social status they confer. While social media made it easier to discover and access new, ever-more niche subcultures, Marx
... See moreMore generally, the greater our means, the harder it may be to find meaning.
Why? Anna Karenina might suggest a mechanism: there is thrill in striving. Purpose in striving. Even those who have put in decades of work are overcome by a sense of melancholy when they finally achieve their aim.
Why? Anna Karenina might suggest a mechanism: there is thrill in striving. Purpose in striving. Even those who have put in decades of work are overcome by a sense of melancholy when they finally achieve their aim.
Packy • Means and Meaning
Fear of being temporarily low in social status stops human beings from living richer lives to an unbelievable degree.
Cate Hall • Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
Life is, of course, just like this: You get only one shot, and it’s up to you to make the most of it by rejecting okay or even pretty good ways to allocate your time or other resources — to hunt down the opportunities to make really great bets on yourself. Do not make barely positive-value bets with your life!
In praise of quitting
The postmodern thing is a disaster, it’s basically collapsing into: “There is nothing really there, we make it all up.” I accept that in intellectual history, there has been a shift away from a narrowly analytic way of thinking, but I’d say that’s only in pockets within academia. And what is much more common is this post-structuralist,... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
! What is the counterpoint to this?
• the most famous, interesting, powerful people all read their own email
• they’re almost universally good at responding to it quickly
• they’re always very, very curious.
• they have very little time. Anything with friction gets done “later”
Ben Kuhn • Be Impatient
If you want new skittles (reality), you have to update your assembly line (your personality or beliefs), and source new ingredients (different friends, new job, dump girlfriend,