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@drpbkim1 🤗😇!

@Natashado13 Thank YOU :) From both my emotional and intellectual brains.

We make 90% of our decisions emotionally, then use logic to justify them. Even the most logical minds can't escape biology. Here's why emotions rule more than we think: 🔗 drpbkim.substack.com/p/an-offhanded…

@WifiMochi Not an easy skill

@Natashado13 True

Play the fool. As long as you’re a dilettante, You have the right to make mistakes (and no one points fingers). You can be a top-level expert and still play the daft. It’s an amusing game. It suits professional tricksters, lawyers, negotiators, and intelligence agents. And for us, ordinary mortals, it’s useful to play the absent-minded one from time to time. Why? The world around you relaxes. You can make unexpected moves and skip the need to prove anything. Comedians have turned this skill into an art form, and they get applause for it. Even though they’re playing dumb.

@WifiMochi With joy :). Thank you dear

@Natashado13 Beautifully written )

A musical performance in the construction genre. Renovation epidemic in my building. Today on the 6th floor (I’m on the 5th), they’ve been sawing, cutting, and hammering all day. But … with music! Some Spanish songs I don’t recognize, probably from the 90s. Along with the scream of the saw comes the passionate howling of a builder singing the same song (for the fifth time). Honestly, I’m enjoying it! This kind of noise I don’t mind. It makes me smile 😊! Welcome to the “Renovation with Soul” concert!

@EltitiGraphics They turn on my rebellious mode when everything, as you say is f***d :)

@Natashado13 Classic, also in my top of favourite songs together with fistful of steel.

I never enjoyed their communist political leaning. But damn did I love their music as a teen. It’s a shame they never understood communism is part of the system they Raged against. When everything seems f… to me I like to indulge in some RATM. Mic Check aha, aha…

@WifiMochi Own mastery requires deletion

@Natashado13 Great idea

I lost the info war. I can’t read all the newsletters I’m subscribed to... Add to that the mountain of articles, books, magazines, podcasts, and YouTube videos patiently waiting for me in a queue so long it could apply for the Guinness World Records. There’s no way a step-by-step approach is going to fix this. It’s not a backlog, it’s a black hole! So I’m declaring info-bankruptcy and starting a new life on my rules: - 1:0 – I win! - 1:1 – That’s fair. - 1:∞ – No to mental fog. Delete all!

Adding all the bookmarks too...

@AthenaIver From the idea of collaborative common it became a capitalist walled garden.

The range of lessons learned from this is astonishing. Including: - Intellectual realisations. - Psychotherapeutic awakenings. - Nihilism. - Takeaways on how to trip for seemingly entertaining purposes. - Nothing at all. It reminds me of the internet. Everyone thought it would revolutionise human productivity and connectivity. For some it did. But for others it became a toy. For others, an encyclopaedia. For others, an addictive drug... Everything in this world is a tool. Life is a construction of your own, based upon how you use these tools.

@DiBrander Good music, but they always remind me of the scene from The Full Monty where one of the characters says, “Listen, just think of the most boring thing you can come up with.” Another character replies, “Dire Straits’ double album.”

Confession time: I never really liked Dire Straits. Always thought they were a bit bland. But after seeing them on Live Aid with Sting, I’m gonna check out some of their stuff. I think that’s what my issue is. They lacked a decent singer.

@WifiMochi 💕

@Natashado13 ❤️

Many people hear their calling and are so faithful to it that the words become imprinted in their very being. I know an Orthodox priest who used to be ... a commercial airline pilot. One day I dared to ask him: “Father, you carry words that I can feel. They say: I GAVE MY WORD. Who did you give your word to?” He smiled and said: “I gave my word to God that I would serve Him. I did my flying, but then it was time to serve. So I serve.”

@TVachaW I never thought about brain relax this way. I only could imagine “Dolce far niente” as a method, calm and quiet time, even boredom.

Have you tried physically relaxing your brain? Although the brain is not a muscle, it’s filled with blood vessels that can can become contracted. This contraction involves tension in the smooth muscles of neural blood vessels. So how might we relax our brain? The same way we relax our body: by bringing awareness to it. We can sit still and bring awareness to our physical brain as a meditation exercise. It’s harder in some ways than bringing awareness to other parts of our body. As the brain itself has no pain receptors and little sensory architecture in general. But if we tune in with sufficient sensitivity, subtle sensations can start to be felt in the brain. This could be vascular constriction. Or, perhaps more likely, its inferred impact on scalp arteries / pericranial muscles & fascia. Like tensions in other parts of the body, I find bringing awareness to these tensions relaxes them. And numbness > awareness > release cycle unfolds naturally. I find relaxing my brain relaxes my body, and relaxing my body relaxes my brain. So burning the candle at both ends creates a wonderful virtuous circle. And watching the brain melt is a wonderful thing.

What is personal growth, anyway? How does one become better? You only become better by choosing an opponent stronger than yourself. Not your “yesterday self.” Not your “best version.” Don’t fight the weaker part of you. You’ve already beaten it enough. Compete with what’s stronger inside. Scarier. More stubborn. With yourself, yes! But not with the weak part. With that part that hides deep and breathes down your neck when you’re alone. You are not a tool. You are a space. A space for experiments and discovery. Test yourself. See what emerges. Strength doesn’t show in comparison. It shows in overcoming.

I believe the creative process is painful (for many artists). The source of pain, or insecurity, comes from within, just as the source of creativity does. When you create, you experience this pain, which is then resolved in your art. It's not universal, but this seems true for you (maybe just for now, or maybe forever)

I'm in a weird limbo, where I want to feel secure to do good work, but I need to do good work to feel secure. anyone else in the same place?

I finished with my morning mistake story and looked out the window: and there, a gift for me! Hanging in the air! Instant reward :)

I got up this morning and did something dumb: I looked into X. Error. Error. And there it went: a tangle of tiny, stunted, fragmented thoughts spinning in my head. Half-raw. Half someone else’s. Error. Error. Want a good morning? Let your phone sleep. Let it lie still. Until noon. Without you.