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patience
The name of the game is patience If you approach life with patience, everything becomes more liberating Forget about getting rich overnight Abs don’t show up after working out once And knowledge compounds When you approach life with a perspective of improvement rather than an urgency to beat everyone else in an arbitrary race, you Continue reading
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self-contradictions
Our real Instagrams are fake Our finstas (fake Instagrams) are real… at least more real We are all self-contradictions Heroes wearing a thousand masks Are we meant to reveal our private self? Our public self? Our true self? Does anyone really know who they are? I think maybe not. Self-identity is constantly expanding. We are Continue reading
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Homophobic Slurs and Freedom
New podcast episode out!: Homophobic Slurs and Freedom “The other weekend while I was in New York some random man said a homophobic slur at me for no reason. But I am not offended. In fact, I want to liberate him from his own oppression. In this podcast I talk about Simone de Beauvoir’s concept Continue reading
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gratitude days
I’ve started a new rule about my productivity Or more the lack of productivity during certain days If by 5 PM, I feel as if I’ve “wasted” the day, then instead if forcing the day to be a productive day, I call it a gratitude day A day where I reflect on my life A Continue reading
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Relegate
Don’t relegate your teachers to only people who look like teachers Don’t relegate creativity to things you believe are traditionally creative Don’t relegate beauty to aesthetics And don’t relegate life to externalities Continue reading
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No activity
One of the biggest self-battles I’ve been having with myself since the start of the new year is the concept of leisure. How do I have good leisure? Today I did nothing productive. I slept a lot. I ate some good food. I “relaxed” and played video games. But my soul was never at peace. Continue reading
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