Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
salman.io
“I’ve often said I should start a new 12-step program called Recovering Nice Persons Anonymous. We would get together periodically and talk about how reflexively we compromise our values in order to be acceptable, to fit in.”
— A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis
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— A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis
https://a.co/ctJeJNo
Young Adults Are in Crisis - The Atlantic
Faith Hill • Young Adults Are in Crisis — The Atlantic
Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. More than half of young adults were worried about money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives lacked meaning or purpose. Teenagers and senior citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest levels of anxiety and depression, Weissbourd’s research has found.
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.
Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
... See moreWork on becoming more attuned to all your senses such that you can notice minute differences between things. Study all the little differences between similar things, and why you like one better than the other. The world wants you numb. Being a student of nuance is an act of rebellion.
-Kepano
A More Ethical Zoo Experience: The Future Is Holographic Zoos | Born Free USA
Devan Schowebornfreeusa.org
Love this. Inspires me to write fables in which the animals get the better of us. or not even fables but stories. Maybe the animals teach us the moral, in an indirect way.
“Again I followed—to find now that the third bait was gone—and the king-wolf's track led on to the fourth, there to learn that he had not really taken a bait at all, but had
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