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Not So “Thought” Thoughts Era (opens the original)
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I listened to a podcast recently, and the guest said something he later apologised for.He said that he didn’t mean what he said and never wanted to hurt anyone’s feelings or beliefs. He was sorry for whatever he had told the interviewers; he was not that kind of person, and blah, blah, blah.Like this podcast guest, many performers in the online world do or say something for which they apologise later, and such events keep happening.Well, it’s human nature to make mistakes, so it’s obvious that y
Why Heartbreak Lingers (opens the original)
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Back in 2014, psychologists at the University of Virginia left people alone in a bare room for fifteen minutes with nothing but their thoughts and a button that delivered a mild electric shock. Among those who had already tried the shock and said they would pay to avoid it, two out of three men and one in four women pressed the button anyway, choosing pain over stillness.Centuries ago, Blaise Pascal wrote in his Pensées that all human unhappiness comes from our inability to sit quietly in a room
You Keep Waiting to Feel Ready, and the Waiting Is Costing You Years (opens the original)
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Every time you promise yourself that you will begin once you are more confident, more certain, more prepared, you are making the same decision again, and the decision is always the safety of later over the discomfort of now.You already know the thing you keep postponing, and you knew it before you finished reading that sentence. You have thought about it in the shower. You have written it down in your notes, probably more than once, in slightly different words each time. You have described it to
You Are Exhausted From Trying to Become Someone You Never Chose to Be (opens the original)
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You can reach a goal you spent years chasing and feel almost nothing. People congratulate you, and you thank them properly, and somebody takes a photograph. For a few days the arrival feels the way you imagined it would. Then an ordinary afternoon turns up, as ordinary afternoons always do, and you wake and check your phone and get ready and sit down at your desk, and a thought arrives that you would rather not examine. You got the thing. You are no longer certain why y
You Don’t Have an Attention Problem (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the middle of an ordinary afternoon, you leave. Nobody notices your departure, because leaving stopped requiring a door a long time ago. An email arrives with a difficult tone, and your hand finds your phone before you have finished the second line. Work turns dull, and another tab opens almost without your permission. Your own thinking becomes uncomfortable, so you go looking for somebody else’s. Each of these small exits lasts a few seconds and costs you almost nothing, which is p
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