@Lovandfear Live big now. Take chances. Have fun. Travel. Build yourself into the person ready for the more disciplined next phase of life…you’ll be an interesting person with great stories ready to settle down and you’ll know yourself better.
@BioMathJason@TheoVon Give a wave and smile each time. If you both have dogs, lets them mingle. Either way—Do that a few times and there’s your in. You’re familiar in her world.
@muheediva01 Yes! Thank you for saying it.
And recovering from narcissistic abuse is difficult and complex. Years of gaslighting and manipulation, always subtle never loud, make someone question their perception of reality. The confusion is real.
@PBDsPodcast Isabell Brown had an interesting segment a couple years ago. She showed that if we adjust currency for current value and compare it to what was happening in the Great Depression, we’ve actually been in a quiet recession for quite some time.
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” —Hubert Reeves
Most important quote of all time. No hyperbole.
October 21, 1949. Huxley writes from Wrightwood, California.
He tells Orwell: the boot-on-the-face model is unstable. Violence creates friction. Friction creates martyrs. Martyrs create resistance. It is too costly to sustain forever.
The smarter path: make the cage comfortable enough that no one looks for the door.
His prediction, written 77 years ago: "The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
@hubermanlab Love it. Peace exists in the space between feeling an emotion and acting on that emotion.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” (Viktor Frankl)
the secret commonality of everyone that lives a long time: tutto passo mentality
everything passes, nothing matters, chill the f out
carbs, fats, wine, cigarettes, chocolate...there's no real longevity hack other than learning to relax