Manuela Chaves Wolynec
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Manuela Chaves Wolynec
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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Sri Prem Baba • Amar e ser livre: As bases para uma nova sociedade (Portuguese Edition)
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
I don’t need more things to look at from people I don’t know.
Nick Catucci • My Internet: Alison Roman
One video I watched was titled: “ How to Be His Dream Girl Forever (Even After Marriage & Kids) .” In it, the creator says, “Men are simple creatures...the feminine invites and creates vacuums in space for the masculine to step in.” She adds that “men under stress disconnect to regulate themselves...It’s not rejection. It’s his biology. It’s how he... See more
Those hot-girl self-help videos are making you worse
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,
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To be clear: I don’t think watching these “hot-girl self-help” videos is inherently bad (though there’s definitely some that are worse than others). There’s nothing wrong with wanting to feel occasionally inspired or confident, but it can become an issue when this becomes your only framework for self-understanding. When you start to see the world... See more
Sabine Carys • Those hot-girl self-help videos are making you worse
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
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe 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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