The whimsy is a decoy. The most intelligent, militant minded, LETHALLY gifted people I know are VERY playful bc they have a side that is EXTREMELY venomous and even THEY are afraid of what happens when the scales tip just a LITTTTTTTLE too much. Tread lightly thinking that bc ppl CHOOSE peace that they aren’t skilled at war. They’re hidden in plain sight… not powerless.
When my daughter was five, she interrupted a bedtime story to tell me, “In a cake eating contest, it doesn’t really matter if you win or lose because you get to eat cake.”
I think about that a lot.
Cleopatra spoke nine languages, studied astronomy, medicine, and philosophy at the Library of Alexandria, and ruled Egypt for two decades through war, famine, and Roman invasion. Rome reduced all of it to one word: seductress.
i love watching lectures on youtube from fields i never study formally. i love regularly listening to people who have spent decades thinking about something i have only just encountered on a random afternoon. the world is far larger than the small corner of it i happen to inhabit
Being 10 years old and making your debut in epigenetic trauma research all because you noticed your caterpillars still loved you after becoming butterflies is so profound and poetic and impressive. I love children and their incredible hearts and minds!!!!!!
get addicted to neuroplasticity, subconscious reprogramming, delusional optimism, game theory, and quantum physics. i promise it will change your life.