DP

Fond of ancient architecture
And phool patti 🌸🍀
Here for my mann ki baat and this and that,
Also not buying whatever you are selling

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[DP @Deeekshaaaaaa]

@Illusionist_126 Loved it

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

There’s a person somewhere who still cuts flowers from their garden
and puts them in a glass on the kitchen table.
Not for guests.
Not for social media.
Just because life feels better when something beautiful is nearby.

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

three blues pretending not to know each other

[Alok Pathak @1005Alok85200]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

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[randoms @sensibleyaps]

my friend who's now committed for over 4 years very casually in a conversation told me, "you don't change your partner, you accept them as they are but also your partner should consciously change for you to be a better human and a lover"

i was flabbergasted.

[blue @bluewmist]

One of my favourite things I've ever read is about a woman who said that whenever she had a negative thought about herself, she would shout "GUARDS!" and imagine old knights entering and carrying the thought away.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

One of my favorite human traits is when someone sees the moon and immediately feels the need to tell someone else to go look at it.

[❀ Sylah ❀ @_birdofheaven_]

I read it somewhere "We romanticized the wrong organ the stomach is more emotional than the heart" and it feels so true. We feel butterflies in our stomach and when we're sad we lose our appetite our stomach gets affected by emotions way more than we realize.

[k @localdrain]

the person who named alphonso was clearly on a completely different assignment than the person who named langda

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

I've solved more problems on an hour walk than days of overthinking at my desk. No phone. No music. No podcast. Just your feet and the ground, the singing birds, the open sky, and space to breathe. Your best thoughts are waiting. Waiting for the noise to stop. Go for a walk. A long one. A walk to think about things that matter. Alone.

[旅人KAD @kad4ani]

モンゴルの草原で遊牧民の少年に「暇なとき何してるの？」と聞いたら、「風の音を聞いてる」と言われた。「飽きない？」と聞き返したら、「風は毎日ちがうからね」と笑っていて、都会で毎日同じ音に囲まれてる自分が、急にとても退屈な世界にいる気がした。

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

Two people genuinely oriented toward the same thing will inevitably arrive at the same place by the logic of geometry:

[Kadott @Kadotttt]

I once read somewhere that after an especially exhausting life,some souls choose to reincarnate as a tree spending a century just resting. I haven't looked at trees the same since then

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy.

-Heath Ledger

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

If you lost your body and were left only with your awareness, just watching the world, you wouldn’t miss luxury, cars, or any of that surface level stuff. You’d miss tasting food. Feeling the wind on your face. Sitting quietly as trees move in the breeze. Flirting with girls. Playing with kids. Talking with your mom. Laughing with people you love. Falling into the grass, feeling the ground hold you. Even something as basic as drinking water and feeling it satisfy you.

Without a body, you’d realize it was never the big things that made life meaningful. It was always these small, physical moments, the ones you barely notice while you have them.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Brain fog. Insomnia. Tight jaw.

You may desperately need a reset from hidden anxiety.

Here are 8 ways to calm your nervous system fast:🧵

1. Cold water on your face.

[katyakay @katyakayy]

I love when you talk things through with someone and realize neither of you was wrong, you just saw things differently. That’s what real communication is: understanding, not winning.