Month: August 2021
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Everything optimized
We try to optimize time like we try to manipulate the weather—craving proficiency, we come prepared. But we are the tools of our tools. In this pre-metaverse world, humans can only control so much. The clock, indeed a fabrication of man, keeps on ticking. Meanwhile, the weather remains fickle. Nature confounds the rules of predictability;…
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Relaxed while working
The synchronicities tend to happen in our most relaxed moments, not when we’re stressing out about work or life. Bothersome thoughts place a block on our ability to connect disparate ideas. So too does a tense face. Anxiety undermines attention, and with it, additional perspective. Our capacity to retain information expands upon the pace of…
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The corrosive side of ambition
The corrosive side of ambition draws us into an unending hole of dissatisfaction. Competition, whether within the inner self or with other’s attrits the soul. No one wants mediocrity. But they do want less stress. We operate best in flow, a process of thinking without thinking, where the mind matches the thoughts of the pen.…
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Known and strange things
Exploration augments the senses. Within the pursuit of strangeness lies one important truth: we prefer the unknown. Can you imagine if the world stopped innovating, where everyone just decided that they’d seen it all! Yet even history compels us to repeat new mistakes. Discovery pushes us forward slowly. There’s a limit to all the novel information…
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A vocation of old and new
Everyone harbors an undeniable vocation that starts when we’re kids. Playing in the NBA, winning a Grammy or an Oscar — most aspirations are pipe dreams. But the characteristics we build in pursuing those far-fetched fantasies such as confidence, persistence, result from facing all the anxieties and fears that arise from such honest confrontation. When…
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Stop making new mistakes
History teaches us our mistakes. What it doesn’t teach us is how to avoid repeating them. Because we just make new ones. The past, present, and future are GIF loops. We are condemned to err all over again, slightly different than before. Yet, we keep testing our limits, believing that we can reach the mirage. Possibilities…