Lejla Ćatović

🫧 writer, seeker, artist

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

Love is metaphysical gravity.

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

I’m working on a story about having to leave your home-state/country in childhood. This was my experience. If you also had this experience, please share what thoughts, worries, feels you went through and if you’ve ever gone back.

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@wiseconnector Azerbaijan

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Is it legal for a company to ask your stance on Israel in very late round interview?

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@SenMiltonYoung @ESPNLisle @Gustakook @JonahDispatch Only Sith deal in absolutes.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Galloway concludes by powerfully evoking the resistance to South African Apartheid, a struggle he himself was personally a part of, and how that informs his principled opposition to the genocidal murderous Israeli occupation regime. And he has won the audience back completely

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

Committing war crimes, aiding and abetting war crimes, and supplicating extermination of civilians en masse should merit impeachment.

[Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange]

ummm....... why are my tax dollars going towards bombing Christian hospitals in the middle east?

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@jk_rowling And what about the 1,200 Palestinian children Israel just outright killed? That’s ok with you?

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@tomaspueyo Here is a nice visual aid for those timelines.

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@ericasmyname Identity theft is no joke! Reported the falsie.

[Bio-Emotive Coach (Healthy Emotional Processing) @DougTataryn]

You can tell so much about a person from the sound and qualities of their voice when they speak.

In my clinical work I find 3 major configurations

One way to say it is "which part of their brain is moving their mouth"?

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@historyinmemes Gunpowder! Accidentally invented it trying to create a potion for immortality.

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[Jack Moses ∞ @jackmoses777]

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the "Godfather of Flow."

"Flow State" is how we:

- Produce meaningful work
- Cultivate meaningful hobbies
- Create lives of joy and fulfillment

Here are his 8 ways to cultivate Flow State:

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." - Charles Bukowski

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@PicturesFoIder Beetlejuice!!!

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@ericasmyname If you can write with rhythm, you can dance with rhythm too. Just think I•am•bic pen•ta•meter!

[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

@thejustinwelsh I want to do this. I created an LLC in January but I’m not sure how to start it up. Would I be able to DM you to ask for help with a jump off point?

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

What is your brain doing when you are doing absolutely nothing?

A neuroscientist wanted an answer to that question.

So she conducted the first brain-imaging study of brain activity when the brain is in a "resting state"—free of inputs/free to wander.

The results are interesting...

The neuroscientist Dr. Nancy Andreasen used a positron emission tomography (PET) scan to study brain activity when the brain is at "wakeful rest"

When you are doing absolutely nothing:

"We found activations in multiple regions of the association cortex," Dr. Andreasen wrote. "We were not [seeing] a passive silent brain during the ‘resting state,’ but rather a brain that was actively connecting thoughts and experiences.”

Essentially, Dr. Andreasen demonstrated that the brain defaults to creativity.

When you are doing absolutely nothing, the brain engages in what the researchers termed "random episodic silent thought" or REST.

And during REST, the brain "uses its most human & complex parts."

Takeaway 1: Doing nothing promotes creativity.

Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, Dr. Suess, George Lucas, and many other writers all have/had a similar habit.

They gave themselves two options:

a) You don’t have to write.
b) You can’t do anything else.

@neilhimself explains:

"I go down to my lovely little gazebo at the bottom of the garden, sit down, and I’m absolutely allowed not to do anything...I'm not allowed to do a crossword, read a book, phone a friend...all I’m allowed to do is absolutely nothing, or write. But writing is actually more interesting than doing nothing after a while."

Takeaway 2: REST

Resting, Dr. Andreasen wrote, “allows the association cortices of the brain to converse in a free & uncensored manner.”

This is why ideas come to us in the shower, on walks, and when daydreaming.

A favorite example of this: @Lin_Manuel had the idea for “Hamilton” on vacation:

"I was on a pool float with a margarita in my hand and had a moment when my brain could unplug. [It was his first vacation in 7 years]. The moment my brain got a moment's rest, the best idea I've ever had in my life walked into it."

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“If a plant only gets sunlight, it’s very harmful. It needs darkness too…In the darkness, it converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. We are like that too. We need periods of doing & periods of non-doing.” — Robert Pirsig

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[Lejla Ćatović @ohhlejla]

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