Tanya
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Tanya
The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months
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Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, schedule with the publisher. This contract of external accountability keeps the fire going through the long slog, and it forces me to make clear-cut decisions about what to include, what to leave out, a
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burnout is “a loss of friendship with a very personal sense of the unknown”
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
should we protect kids from scary content? should we make sure the wolf put grandma in the closet instead of devouring her? i don't think so. the truth is we don't know what will scare the kids. they don't see the world exactly as we do.