Will Connelly

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[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

6 months ago, I nearly dropped out of uni.

I was ready to give up on Philosophy.

Today, I passed 50 research hours of my diss on 'How to be authentic online.'

Here's 5 lessons I've learned about deriving purpose by creating engaging content:

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

GM friends, been a short while

Taken the past week or so away to finish up at university

10 days and I’m all yours again

Going to be releasing my dissertation on digital authenticity through my mailing list

So if you’re interested, catch it there

How are you doing?

[Somya Desai @somyadesai]

The way of the philosopreneur is to make the unconscious conscious through the lens of business.

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

If after oversharing you try to chastise your thoughts further, you deserve a better medium of self-expression

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@joshczuba Stay safe out there

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

How absurdly special is life:

I exist in society that put man on the moon but can’t explain my allergy to the literal ground

GM

There’s a lot of grass cutting going on out there

Stay safe

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

@huntingthemuse Damn is it finally finished??

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The Ancient Gods didn’t go anywhere

At the altar of Celebrity are their imitations worshipped daily

Their widespread success is symptomatic of a culture lacking sustenance

However, the internet’s transcendent nature permeates beyond culture + offers a route back to source

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

For as long as humanity denies its mystical spark, nihilistic technological progress will continue indefinitely

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

The same critique of self-help applies to philosophy:

Reading without application is just a leisure activity

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

Integrity is audience building:

It’s most liberating when you retain freedom of expression

Having people listening creates an influence

But if you can’t be honest with them…

It’s never going to amount to a positive one

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@Sherwood_Writes @EvenKeeledOne Boy really needs to stop speaking and start doing

Used to always make the mistake of telling people about what I was going to do before doing it

Problem is, that you get credited as if you’re already acting it out

Which can nerf motivation

Just do the thing first

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

@Sherwood_Writes I am the sum of sherwood in that case

Wonder what that equation looks like

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@ZubyMusic Wow, that’s unreal - it’s a shame how in our parents generation due to everyone being integrated into local communities this would be a lot more common

Definitely something we’ve lost to globalisation

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

I picked to live in this city 4 years ago

I only had 1 other choices of university I could have gone to

We own less control of our outcomes than we think

But just because you didn’t pave the path you’re walking on

Doesn’t mean you can’t decide it’s final destination

GM

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

Sacrifice desires to the power of ritual

It doesn’t need to be Eleusis

(mine smells of damp books)

But putting yourself in front of the same altar

Whilst the Sun is at the same point in the sky each day

Is how you can begin to ordain yourself as productive

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The stories you tell yourself define the limits of your potential

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

Government overreach really gone Chinese Communist Party on us now

Although, being in the library whilst everyone’s started going off made for a fun disruption

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@_Noahwainwright Love the second last line

feeling this too, don’t wanna chat sh•t about personal branding or Twitter growth

So boring, really about carving out the topics that are native to your mind and fleshing them out in a way which people can resonate with

Still very much learning

[Will Connelly @willfaconnelly]

@ChrisLDyson It’s a millennial thing

Film’s pretty big, if only it wasn’t so damn expensive

Like you say, would love to rock a Nokia 3310 and a film camera but I don’t think either can run Twitter

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@AndreaMonsalina Day trade doge