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“We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much tha
Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
Your mind isn't creating thoughts—your thoughts are creating your mind. Every time you revisit a particular thought loop, you're voting for it to beco
Spiritual Seduction Thread (UPDATED): So what is “spiritual seduction”? This is a term I coined years ago (before this account) when I discovered how
Writers should be paid. There’s this idea that paying a writer is optional. We must make a profound shift about that. When we click on something and c
AI hasn’t made my writing faster, but slower, because I now need to consciously avoid sounding like AI.
Putting ideas into words doesn't have to mean writing, of course. You can also do it the old way, by talking. But in my experience, writing is the str
It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work.Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact.Remember that you can burn out e
For the aspirant, there’s nothing more comforting than realizing you are not alone in trying. You’re not alone in trying to find a subject, trying to
human feeling of pain is both a distinct sensation and a motivation – that is, a specific emotion that reflects homeostatic behavioral drive, similar to
The brain is not just a passive observer in the experience of pain. It shapes pain, amplifies it, echoes it. Brains exposed to prolonged periods of pa
When you stub your toe and feel pain throbbing out of it, that, too, is an illusion. That pain is not in your toe, but in your brain.
I am grateful for your strange mind which so uniquely filters existence—at first it was difficult for me to interact with because I felt pressure to m
We all carry endless hidden selves and latent worlds, waiting for the right gaze to bring them to the surface. I’ve felt this in my bones: relationshi
"Think of your mother as your grandmother's daughter and get to know her that way." (Michael Kerr)
the basis of that most profound expression of the American psyche, the game of baseball, a game whose object is to leave home in order to return to it
Baseball players have to know before the final two hundred milliseconds of a pitch where to swing, so the earlier they pick up anticipatory cues the b
George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress: “The most important lessons here — especially for yo
For the aspirant, there’s nothing more comforting than realizing you are not alone in trying. You’re not alone in trying to find a subject, trying to
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
still one of my favorite lines of all time: and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in
The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.
