Life
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The social variant
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Nothing is understood in isolation – people make ideas boom or bust. Our orientation is social in nature. Most people dismiss new forms of thinking. They don’t want to wreck the status quo, doing everything they can to buck the fear of being uncomfortable. Unfortunately, we’re all too connected to prevent the spread. It’s all…
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Above the rim
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The imitative instinct drives one into a field of copycats. It doesn’t take a miracle to mimic previous forms produced by someone else. But it does take a lot of courage to be different. If one gets lucky, magic will cluster together with the advantage of creativity, discovery, and innovation. One is at their best…
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The free-acting individual
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Anonymity is a blessing in disguise. There’s a lot of pretense in signaling past accolades. Success in one role inhibits the other. People like to put gems in boxes to store them away for safekeeping down the road. But identities change, and plans evolve because people are elastic. The great mismatch is how others perceive…
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The probable oddity
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Her look went beyond centuries, but so did her footwork. She demanded to stand out in a sea of sameness, to dive in a forest of waves rather than swim in the treadmill of pools. As society hallows each of us out, we must try harder to excavate a sense of special pride. Having first…
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Stripping away the camouflage
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Some people are like the octopus: changing with haste to match their surroundings, only to hide and rage into their naked quirks when they return home. One cannot define the individual, where the inner current of uniqueness strikes the soul with the utmost transparency, no camouflage. Hiding from one’s self is for the fakers. The…
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Thinking with a helping hand
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The ideas get imposed and go unquestioned as people accept them with automatic comprehension. But it’s those that can remain detached from the concept of sidedness that steer their own path. We have to create our roadshow. One of the most powerful draws of individualism is high efficacy, the belief in constructing one’s thought and…
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Putting a dent in persistent novelty
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Novelty is the sugar of our existence. It’s what keeps us coming back for more. And technology is at the center of its stickiness. Information is a click away; Twitter and Instagram offer more curated entertainment than we could ever access. The internet never ends with each refresh, like pulling the lever at a casino…
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Observing closely
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Completely forgettable, conclusively forgotten. Things disappear with the disattention of time. We bear witness to that which genuinely sticks, the imagination included. Memory is plentiful when we pursue life with intent. Paying attention costs little. Staying excited is the hard part. When we look at things with curiosity, the dynamics change. Perspective encourages a deeper…
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Becoming pain tolerant
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Surrender to the pain and see the growth. Capitulation converts supposed weakness into emotional endurance over time, providing an antidote to the stress caused by the resistance. Ruing the past, fighting the future — worrying is as aimless as punching the air. The courage of moving on is a form of alchemy, a fancy way…
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Smacked of indecision fatigue
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Eventually, we all succumb to indecision fatigue. The inability to make a decision exhausts one to the point of regret. Once the dam breaks, and we say “yes,” we accept the risk and burden of figuring it all out later. There’s an incongruity between what we want and the fulfillment we expect it to bring.…
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Time to bear this in mind
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Bear in mind that the passport to freedom comes from the gift of time. Time is more valuable than money, the latter which shall be earned, not stolen. The only way to capitalize on the ticking clock is to combine work and play. Everything is a distraction — the television, the worst of all, choking…
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Stress test
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Stress is the great equalizer and our biggest distractor. It is worse than a sting from the ludic loop, mere fodder for over-thinking. But we can dampen its attentive nature. We can do things to get unstuck from the chaos of the monkey mind. The quickest mood modulator could be a psychedelic to reset the…