Jen
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Jen
i increasingly think there’s intense cruelty to shilling self-care as the solution for ppl who are clearly craving purpose
But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
I don’t think back on those days too often, but with Matthew Perry’s death, the memories have coiled around me because of how honest he was about his own addiction. I want to tell you something about addiction: No matter who it is or what substance that person is hooked on, loneliness is at its root. For whatever reason — and I have no theory as to... See more
Opinion | Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is
... See moreResilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity. But whether we’re talking
... See moreMandy Brown • Against Optimization
Only by exposing ourselves more regularly to discomfort are we going to strengthen our resilience. And don’t we crave it, too? Don’t we all want to feel more alive and live more intensely? To create environments in which humans can truly thrive, we need to be guided by different principles than just comfort and ease. A small first step would be to ... See more