Preston Rakovsky
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"The Taste Economy" by Daisy Alioto at FWB FEST24
- A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more
from Why You Should Write More by Ava
- big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame
- Most beliefs are self-validating. Angry people look for problems and find them everywhere, happy people seek out smiles and find them everywhere, pessimists look for trouble and find it everywhere. Brains are good at filtering inputs to focus on what you want to believe.
A first date was happening next to me. It was pretty painful to overhear them have absolutely nothing in common. What was worse was they weren’t curious about each other. I think all romance is an enduring curiosity for another person. (nix, valley of things unsaid)
