Salman Ansari
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embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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As John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)
TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge
Reminds me of how I knew when my stories are done: There are always still problems, but you reach a point where fixing them will only create new ones.
- Use your tools to make things, don't make things about your tools. Technology and the end result are in a dance, one can never lead the other too long.
MANIFESTO
In a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?"
In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu
Ashwin Sharmax.comJoseph Campbell: Follow your bliss, find the joy in every moment, step by step it becomes a hidden track in life.
Spiritual awakening is frequently described as a journey to the top of a mountain. We leave our attachments and our worldliness behind and slowly make our way to the top. At the peak we have transcended all pain. The only problem with this metaphor is that we leave all the others behind—our drunken brother, our schizophrenic sister, our tormented
... See morePema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
Kafka urges the young man to stay present with his difficult emotions:
Just be quiet and patient. Let evil and unpleasantness pass quietly over you. Do not try to avoid them. On the contrary, observe them carefully. Let active understanding take the place of reflex irritation, and you will grow out of your trouble. Men can achieve greatness only by surmounting their own littleness.
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.