In moments of peace or tranquility, we cast about for anger to drive us.
It is more comforting to tack into the wind, expending energy in tragic folly, than to rest adrift.
Tag: learning
- Theme: Growth
Overindexed identity vs goo
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1–2 minutesEveryone has some facet in which they are over indexed for identity.
"I may not drink, but I run marathons" or "I may be soft around the middle, but I’m hard-core for (name your salvation)."
this point of fixation (fixity) becomes our flag and crutch. while we prefer the single utility machine, taken to a robotic, uncompromising extreme, there are those looking for the mutable and mushy, the gelatinous, from which fluid change is possible, and no singular point can be determined or taken.
- Theme: Self
superior me
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1–2 minutesThe real me is superior to this situation.
If only the actual, authentic self were revealed or unleashed, success would be at hand. However, we are often inferior; if we cannot admit this, we will continue to be lacking.
Our dreams of being secretly superior are, at first, escapist fantasies. Yes, we should dream, but lest we indulge in our unmaking, we must utilize them to inspire action.
- Theme: Self
your stories of fulfillment
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1–2 minutesWho you are is strengthened when you unearth and convey the times you were deeply fulfilled.
Don’t spend your valuable time with friends dismantling yourselves. Instead tell of the acts that fulfilled you, the personal small tales that reaffirm your unique value in the world.The trick is to recall that odd moment that thrilled only you, not others.
from Luke Burgis - Theme: Growth
The apocalypse is revelation
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1–2 minutesApocalypse is, from the Greek, an uncovering or revelation. We use the word today to mean a world-ending catastrophe.
The hidden meaning is when reality is disclosed to us (revealed), it destroys our assumptions: the truth was always there, but upon being forced to witness it, it shatters us.
(via Zizek)
- Theme: Growth
Executing your life
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1–2 minutesYour day is not what you plan; your life is what happens.
Being open leads to being present, which allows the ability to be surprised and engaged: having a memorable life instead of executing life.
- Theme: Growth
Damage
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1–2 minutesThe reason you recognize damage is because you were damaged.
The reason I can spot abuse, wrapped in pretty lies is because I was lied to, taken advantage of.
In such ways our insight grows: not to do what’s been done to us, but to ameliorate the progress of pain, while still imparting the learning.
After all, we do not want to eradicate a survival instinct, but we do not want to traumatize either.
- Theme: Growth
The space necessary for self discovery
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1–2 minutesI abhor the common refrain, often an excuse from responsibility, that we need to “find ourselves”.
Yet, without a small gap or space in which to practice pointless tasks you will not find what resonates deeply with you. Without grasping what brings you joy without needing function, or utility, it seems unlikely you could ever be a “self.”
You risk being a “being” produced by the society by not discovering, on your own initiative, your own priorities.
- Theme: Self
humans without frontiers
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1–2 minutesWithout a frontier to push into or against, self-discovery is not an exploration of the new but a redefining (retromodification) of the preceding.
In mining the past (nostalgia) the unreality of exhumation offers only abstract context, leading to affectation.
Is regenerating affect non-effectual work? If so, without new frontiers, we risk assuming the labor of dilatante style is indeed substance. - Theme: Self
Educating out relationships
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1–2 minutesEducation today requires leaving, learning to speak in abstract idioms, which transmutes us into relating differently.
When you return home you no longer speak in the specific particulars (concrete examples) of your family and early social circle.
To become abstract means it grows increasingly hard to care for those you care about.