Natalie Audelo

Following a curriculum, you build mental models by processing simple examples, and then those simple models filter reality so that you become blind to the subtleties of the more complex examples. This is sometimes called a knowledge shield.

To avoid knowledge shields the US military, when it does accelerated training programs, avoids sequential curr... See more

“One of the most satisfying feelings I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot

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“The sacred is the effect of a momentary uniting of individuals into a jointly acting collective.” These moments act as liminal spaces where inner experience is externalized, reshaped, and received in a shared field of attention by turning feeling into form, and form into meaning.

These love stories — these friendships, these little nothing moments — this is the highest form of worship, of love.