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Ear Protection
Yesterday, my brother-in-law and his family came over to do belated Christmas and play Wingspan. There were a lot of people in the house, and I started to feel overwhelmed. I have some silicon ear filters, Calmer by Flare Audio, but I’ve misplaced them. They’re somewhere in the
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Kevin McCarthy Is Not the Only Loser in the House G.O.P.’s Speaker Mess | The New Yorker
We don’t need to know the final outcome to know what this mess already portends: a gridlocked House in thrall to a minority of publicity-addled fanatics and abetted by a majority of Republican accommodationists who, like McCarthy himself, have made deal after deal with the extremists without ever satisfying
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Russia launches strikes in Ukraine in violation of self-declared ceasefire | Ukraine | The Guardian
“It’s a first victory” for Ukraine, said Oksana Abu-Akel, who hailed it as a significant step in the Ukrainian Orthodox church’s efforts to cut ties with Russia after it started the war more than 10 months ago. “This is the first time in 300 years that there is
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The Pool at Nowhere
Salesforce podcast host Josh Birk gave a moving presentation last fall about anxiety and burn out: It’s December 7th, 2021, and I am floating in the middle of a pool that’s in the middle of a barn, that’s a middle of Nowhere, Illinois. And around me is
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Making Use
“To quote Adler again: “The important thing is not what one is born with but what use one makes of that equipment.” You want to be Y or someone else because you are utterly focused on what you were born with. Instead, you’ve got to focus on what you
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Negative Emotions
“At some stage in your life, you chose “being unhappy.” It is not because you were born into unhappy circumstances or ended up in an unhappy situation. It’s that you judged “being unhappy” to be good for you.” We don’t choose negative things without some positive purpose in
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Emotional Control
“For one thing, right now you are unable to feel real happiness. You find living hard, and even wish you could be reborn as a different person. But you are unhappy now because you yourself chose being unhappy. Not because you were born under an unlucky star.” It’s not
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Unbundling Tools for Thought
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Just keep walking
“Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It’s okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it’s fine to be “just as you are.” If you are unable to really feel happy,
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Present vs. Past
“If one assumes that people are beings who can change, a set of values based on etiology becomes untenable, and one is compelled to take the position of teleology as a matter of course” If people are creatures of free will, then we are able to change, and if we
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At Least It’s An Ethos
“The Freudian etiology that is typified by the trauma argument is determinism in a different form, and it is the road to nihilism” Saying that my behavior now is caused by my past trauma is saying that my trauma determined my actions, which is stepping towards denying will, and then