every time you replace "this is hard" with "what's the first step?" you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that's neuroplasticity in real timg
Every time you avoid something uncomfortable, your brain reinforces the idea that avoidance works. It literally strengthens the pathways that make hesitation, procrastination, or excuses automatic. And every time you do the hard thing even imperfectly your brain is building a new pathway: this is something I can do.
여자들아 제발 땀흘리며 운동하자.
땀이 줄줄 흐르면 선크림 다 녹고
머리가 축 늘어지고 다 떡져서
나도 모르게 땀나는 운동을 멀리했었음
근데 몸 한번 머리끝부터 발끝까지 망가지니까
땀흘리면서 운동하는 것 만큼
몸 살리기 빠른 방법이 없어…
땀나는게 요즘은 오히려 붓기빠지는 것 같고
겁나거나 두려워지지 않아서
더 생활하는 데에도 도움이 되는 것 같아.
I don’t care about book piracy discourse coming from American authors because they will never understand what it’s like living in a third world country with no public libraries, books that costs 3x your salary, or bookstores that don’t even have recent books in their inventory