Manuela Chaves Wolynec
@mcwolynec
Manuela Chaves Wolynec
@mcwolynec
yess, it’s not that you shouldn’t consume this content but it’s that you should do so mindfully and critically, because there is good advice and there is also harmful advice, learn to tell them apart
this is also why this kind of self help content is so inherently heterosexual, it can often focus on propagar gender roles within romantic connections that is first of all, a construct even in het relashionships and even more useless and censeless when it comes to queer relashionships
The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute,
... See more“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
... See moreCringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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