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how to slow down time (the neuroscience of time perception)
contemplationstation.substack.com
doom scrolling and
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
relationships and
You’re not protecting yourself, you’re keeping yourself hidden away from the people who will truly love you.
inconvenience is not the enemy
Mental toughness
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.