Mateo Balaña Paemen
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What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
A lot of people want to avoid their emotions and their feelings at all costs. The majority of people do. Being aware of this makes your life easier. Stop trying to get something out of people who can’t give it to you.
People like this in my life: my grandad, my parents (sometimes), and some of my friends.
The part around how to add delight and fluidity and simplicity (basically the whole thing) is really cool. Really thoughtful.
All knowledge is intuitive. Intelligence is a measure of presence.
What happens when children are denied this kind of spontaneous free play - denied the space to pretend? The most extreme end of research - and it is admittedly extreme - can be found in the work of psychiatrist Stuart Brown. After the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman short forty-six people from the top of a tower on t
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(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)