rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
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Olympic champions, scientific breakthroughs, great works of art are all products of the perfectionistic personality gone right.
Dr. Linda Silverman • Perfectionism: the Crucible of Giftedness
"The particular nature of our shame tells us exactly all the ways we need to come out of hiding. Shame is difficult, shame is painful, shame is our reinforced recoil from the same experiences that previously seemed to break our hearts and made us feel shameful in the first place. But shame is our constant companion, who for our own good and for the
... See moreself renewal and
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 morerecovery and
if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over
you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail
you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail
River Kenna • Tweet
Moloch and
Trust goes hand in hand with truth. Lying is always a breach of trust.
Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores • Building Trust
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing
manifesto craft and
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
-- W.B. Yeats
-- W.B. Yeats