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- Capturing notes from stuff I'm reading.
- Collecting ideas for practical application.

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When you're growing, it's painful. When you're stagnating, it's painful. When you're declining, and you're not sure what to do, it's also painful.

All conditions of reality can be painful; pain is a just one of many conditions of reality.

Pain is a signal that you're alive.

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A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect them, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

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Fire offloaded warmth. The wheel offloaded weight. The printing press offloaded memory. Every leap in human progress has been a story of handing some piece of work to a tool so we could free our minds.

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The Assumption of Normalcy is reasonable in everyday life, where most people are normal. It is not a safe assumption on the internet, where almost everything you see is made by a small group of insane people.

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A mess is a clutter of intentions.

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It is highly beneficial to have some version of a crazy tutor in your life.

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the Assumption of Normalcy: we assume that everyone is a regular person until proven otherwise

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Notice the thoughts that make you feel like you're opening,

notice the thoughts that make you feel like you're closing.

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Do the thing that you think someone should be doing.

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For any kind of fear of rejection: if you want to get over it, do it 100 times.

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Most people don’t care what you do or what you think.

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Have an outlet for each of your interests and curiosities.

An outlet can be as simple as an account on a platform.

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How to spend a day: writing, reading, walking, thinking, socializing and a personal niche thing.

The day will feel full and satisfying.

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Dopamine and alpha are in direct competition.

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Every form of human progress was, at its moment of inception, indistinguishable from recklessness.

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In the Tarot, The Fool is Card Zero. It sits outside the numbered sequence entirely, which is itself the point.

The Fool is the soul before it has accumulated the weight of knowledge, before it has learned what it is “supposed” to do.

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Humanity is remarkably good at detecting danger, but we never evolved a reliable system for detecting genius.

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The brain is naturally biased toward retreat.

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Do not think that you can go with the flow and someone else will anticipate your sincerest needs and desires for you. That is a great strategy for not getting what you want.

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The point is to write beyond what we think.

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Accepting what you really feel is inconvenient, especially if you’ve built an entire life on the feelings you believe you’re supposed to have.