Philip
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Philip
The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words. Every time you engage in conversation, your mind automatically constructs a mental model of your conversation partner. You then use the words they say to fill in the model with that person’s goals, feelings and beliefs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
Life got way chiller once I stopped conceptualizing it as some grand story and instead as just a participant in the cosmic chaos just tryna have a good time
Nah, there is more than that. There is a story. It is grand. And there is a plan and purpose for your life in that story.
Write it down.
Roam Research is a writing tool. Writing is a tool for thinking.
Build your knowledge. Connect your ideas. Create consilience.
Generic ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction.
Anu Atluru • Writing Wrapped
“Approach people with a sense of genuine friendliness, and not a defensive crouch,” he says. “They’re not out to get you just because they don’t get you. Then you won’t go around with this armor and this shield and this darkness.” — Stephan Jenkins
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Keeping a notebook keeps alive some illusion of who we used to be, allowing us to maintain continuity with a self we’ve already outgrown.”
-Joan Didion (from “On Keeping a Notebo
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