Steven Sharpe
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Steven Sharpe
Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful tomo
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When designing a character, it’s often useful to think of them in terms of their theory of control. How have they learned to control the world? When unexpected change strikes, what’s their automatic go-to tactic for wrestling with the chaos? What’s their default, flawed response? The answer, as we’ve just seen, comes from that character’s core beli
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“We are hollowed, bit by bit, as all that made us human dies. Our kindness. Our empathy. Our capacity for fear, and love. One by one, they slough away, until all that’s left is the desire to hunt, to hurt, to feed, to kill. That is how we die. Made reckless by our hunger. Convinced we are unkillable until someone or something proves us wrong.”
Excerpt from “Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil” by V.E. Schwab
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in african thought, the future doesn’t exist. time moves backwards because time is made of events. they must be experienced to constitute time
So feel free to abandon a book, but be honest with yourself about the reason you’re putting it down- there’s a difference between badly written books that aren’t entertaining and don’t push your thinking, and books that you disagree with but at least make you think in new ways.