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Facts Don’t Form Beliefs:
“I believe in climate change. I believe in the people who tell me there is climate change. The people who don’t believe in climate change, they believe in other people.”
This is how we form all beliefs. We don’t examine evidence and reach conclusions. We trust people we like, then adopt their views.
The reasons are not the
... See moreWanting to outperform another artist or make a work better than theirs rarely results in true greatness. Nor is it a mindset that has a healthy impact on the rest of our lives. As Theodore Roosevelt pointed out, comparison is the thief of joy. Besides, why would we want to create with the purpose of diminishing someone else?
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
be a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.comEveryone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over... See more
collabfund.com • Ideas That Changed My Life
Any knowledge that is not firsthand is necessarily incomplete. There's no book or description that can be substituted for your personal psychological and physiological reaction to something in the world.
One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.comLife got way chiller once I stopped conceptualizing it as some grand story and instead as just a participant in the cosmic chaos just tryna have a good time
Pavel Asparouhovtwitter.comWhen you can pay someone else to deal with the grocery store rush, when you can buy access to a highway lane without traffic, when you can skip urgent care and book a concierge doctor, you’re probably not going to invest in improving our broken systems. You’ve, “found a way to route around collapse. Life still works, but only in zones that are... See more
We’re Desperate For Potency
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP