Adam Callahan
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Adam Callahan
Relief comes from asking "What are the facts?" instead of "What shall I do?"
By observing her own anger and impulses to control others, Milner discovered the power of detachment and shifting focus from "How can I make them do what I want?" to "Why are they behaving this way?" leading to a sense of relief and freedom.
By observing her own anger and impulses to control others, Milner discovered the power of detachment and shifting focus from "How can I make them do what I want?" to "Why are they behaving this way?" leading to a sense of relief and freedom.
Mark Frauenfelder • Book Freak 164: A Life of One's Own
How difficult it is to do as one ought every day without a single interruption. How difficult it is, not to dream up a book, but to write it without lassitude—in a word to be in good heart day after day.
My Baudelaire Summer
See both the dignity and absurdity in human nature
Trust the value of your personal experiences, even when others might trivialize them, recognizing that all human experiences contain both dignity and absurdity, and no single expression can fully capture their complexity.
Trust the value of your personal experiences, even when others might trivialize them, recognizing that all human experiences contain both dignity and absurdity, and no single expression can fully capture their complexity.
Mark Frauenfelder • Book Freak 164: A Life of One's Own
- You have more time than you think. You just waste way too much of it on social media and returning emails. Therefore, during your scheduled writing time, use an app to block yourself from accessing those time-sucks.
- Schedule your regular writing time. Put it in your calendar. It is sacrosanct. It should be regular. It’s best if you work in the morni
Day 6 of #1000wordsofsummer 2024
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comIt’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is.
get back on the journey and out of the circle
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If we have problems that are unsolvable, our unconscious figures that we’re either uniquely special or uniquely defective in some way. That we’re somehow unlike everyone else and that the rules must be different for us. Put simply: we become entitled.
Often, it’s this realization—that you and your problems are actually not privileged in their severi
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