yk the funniest thing is that chinese women today are such feminists; most of them grew up as an only child and for the first time in Chinese history, little girls had 100% of the resources of both their parents + all 4 grandparents, and were expected to compete equally with boys
if a women tells you you have "nice hands" she is doing everything in her power not to fuck you senseless release her from her torment her friends are receiving the kinds of messages someone in prison would send
Going back to this, what was the epidemic of girls who did good in class having to suffer by being put beside the baddest, most horrible of boys in hopes your behavior would influence them? I believe thereโs a term for it but it was a conversation a while back.
My ADHD brain is a world-class life coach for everyone except me.
I can help a friend navigate a complex career shift and a breakup in a single 20-minute phone call. I am wise. I am insightful. I am a tactical genius.
Then I hang up and spend three hours deciding whether to shower now or in 10 minutes, eventually doing neither and eating a slice of cold cheese over the sink.
This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits so hard.
โYou sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.โ
A mentor once told me this: Life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson. The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world wonโt change.
Iโve said this before and people thought I was crazy, but if u treat it has a date; relaxed, charismatic, witty, regardless of interviewers gender, youโre 10x more likely to be hired. After a certain point in the interview process the conversation should shift to life/them/you..