Stuti Pandey
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Stuti Pandey
“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
Some things just take time: compounding, craftsmanship, and good judgment.
6. One of the clearest signs of intelligence is being able to hear an opinion you disagree with and not act emotionally
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When I want to be transformed, I chase my reading, to use Robin Hanson’s phrase. “Hunting has two main modes: searching and chasing,” Hanson writes. “With searching you look for something to chase. With chasing, in contrast, you have a focus of attention that drives your actions.” Searching is when I’m reading without a clear aim and continue to... See more
To be human is to be an animal that needs witnesses. Someone has to see you eating cereal. Someone has to be there when you tell a bad joke. Otherwise you start twitching in public, you start growling in the supermarket. You start developing hobbies. This is the horror we call solitude.
Keep your distance from people who've made being wronged their identity. They're not looking for solutions, they're recruiting.
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
