Nikita
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Nikita
Have a foundation of friendship, avoid the four horsemen (contempt, criticism, defensiveness and stonewalling), make sure positive interactions outweigh negative ones 5:1, and be attuned to each other’s bids for attention.
Imagine if we all viewed our participation in humanity the way astronauts do, how naturally then we would unfist our nationalisms into an outstretched hand.
The answer to how to approach your twenties lies between Plath and Didion. Everything you do is irrevocable, because time is finite, which means your choices matter. So you have to choose a fig. You cannot sit “in the crotch of this fig tree starving to death.” But choosing one fig does not cause all the others to instantly fall from the tree. If... See more
what if we gave people money + time + safety + connections to build/improve their own X? e.g., you have 50k and 12 months to build your own master’s programme, or you have 80k and 24 months to become a skilled sculptor, or you have 150k and 18 months to build your own lab. what if you then organised these people into interdisciplinary groups/scenes
... See moreA qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in formal studies, and the rest on self-directed projects. Unlike children today, they had little access to entertainment, and so were often bored, unless they figured out a way to keep their minds occupied; the intellectual obsessions that grew into their life’s work often grew... See more
