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With AI granting machines fluent and immediate speech, truth is no longer found in what is said, but in what is viscerally felt. That is why the human body is reasserting itself as the most reliable medium: one that values products and experiences for their direct, visceral impact. In this scenario, a turn towards somatic intelligence emerges as a
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about a third of young adults aged 18 to 34 now live with their parents. Nearly 60% of parents financially support an adult child. As difficult as that might be, it is a required adaptation to a profoundly altered economic and social reality.
Julia Samuel • Adolescence lasts into your 30s – so how should parents treat their adult children?
In China, things often do circle back to the ancestral obsession with saving face. Everyone from the bottom up to the top leaders save face if there’s no written record to refer back to.
it’s so easy to derail our own joy by looking around at someone else’s life or worse — the imaginary life we think we should have by now
We seem normal only to those who don’t know us very well. In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on any early dinner date would be: “And how are you crazy?”
Alain De Botton • Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
To sit with the discomfort of holding multiple truths in relationship is part of how we open our relationships to the ecology. To shift our understanding of relationships from mainstream expectations that freeze us in certain roles, means inviting in new ways of discerning trust and safety that can hold more complexity.
to practice relationship ecology
In the absence of strong convictions about what you want from life, you will always default to wanting more money. It’s the lowest common denominator of desire in a society with any semblance of upward mobility. The key to escaping this cycle is first establishing your priorities (family dynamics, geography, lifestyle, whatever) , and then figuring... See more