Lorie Marrero

Never give up. You got this.

Exactly. 💯

This is fascinating. I see it as mostly true in the aspect of huge or repetitive designer logos. When you see someone who has plastered logo clothing all over themselves, they appear to have a high need for Significance. They are associating their identity with the cache of the designer, which can seem like the person feels insecure and needs to attach to that to feel good enough. It’s not always a big signal, but you know it when you see it, some people are quite “vulgar” with the display as your great-grandfather said.

@BowTiedTrance Just purchased!

When you want the whole toolbox, this is the book you read. There is no other book that covers hypnosis, self-hypnosis, persuasion, affirmations, body language, and hypnotic writing in one place. When you want to become a wizard, this is the book you read. The URL? In my bio. (Get the audiobook, trust me.)

Many women spend so much energy trying to be a corrective force for their husbands, their families, society, that they forget to live their own lives. Little do we realize that a woman’s life lived according to her highest expression IS already corrective, and inherently healing for society. We’ve put the cart before the horse. Pour into yourself first. Express yourself, yes — then live your life. It’s far more powerful to lead by energetic example than by correction.

Modern “feminism” is a rejection of the feminine. It values a woman only by whether she’s good at being a man. Everything uniquely feminine is crushed under foot. Who cares that you create life? Can you create this spreadsheet? Oh you have the gift of prophecy? Forecast Q2 sales.

One thing I really respect about Italian ladies is their devotion to presenting themselves well. We are in a mountainous town with lots of walking on uneven cobbled streets, so I naturally wear running shoes everywhere. Italian women on the other hand are walking around everywhere without a problem or complaint in classy black heels, dresses and tights. So much femininity was perhaps lost to comfort!

Gentlemen, it’s high time to normalize dressing like this on a frequent basis.

@SCP_Hughes @david_perell This is for you, @thewaronbeauty

Why do new buildings seem, on average, uglier than old buildings? We discuss some options: - Survivorship bias: only the beautiful old buildings have survived (we reject this option); - Cycles of taste: everyone always finds new buildings uglier (we mostly reject this too); - Ornament became too expensive because of rising labour costs (we reject this); - Ornament became too cheap because of mechanisation and then became low status (we reject this); - Some sort of Protestant or Puritan anti-beauty inheritance (we are doubtful); - Some kind of elite status game, perhaps a response to democratisation or elite overproduction (we think there is promise here, but serious work is needed on the details). I discuss this and more with @Aria_Babu and @bswud. Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/did… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2pIka6… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=qvueKt…

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment. No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes. Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do. And the results were exactly the same. For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue. The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive. Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people. COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time. But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession. Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for. And so many of them did it anyway. Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically. Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke. Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it. Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things. It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough. We just watched it happen again. And the lesson, as always, is the same. An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders. Think for yourself. Question everything. And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

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Accurate

I've been saying this for years. The reason public art is so ugly now is it's meant to erode your pride in your community and culture so those in power can reshape it with minimal resistance.

Btw pretending nothing happened isn't an apology.

@_Chemist1 High standards come with boundaries. Those who value themselves don’t wait for repeated offenses, they detach, protect their energy, and walk away from disrespect immediately.

People with high standards are skilled at detachment and cut people off at the slightest sign of disrespect.they don’t tolerate disrespect, not even as a joke.

@shawtie_e Yep, if you play the “act like nothing is wrong” game, that means no ownership, humility or accountability is happening. If you don’t know what’s wrong, ask, be humble and ask how to make it right.

Nothing annoys me more than someone trying to have a casual conversation with me when they owe me an apology.

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@lolnvmtho With every interaction I was anticipating either disappointment at not feeling heard, abrasiveness, unsolicited advice aggressively shoved at me, dismissal or minimization of my experiences, or outright criticism. Enough. Peace. 😌

You ever cut someone off and your whole nervous system just… relaxed