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Jul 11, 2020

growth and abundance homies only. acquire new skills. learn new languages. try new things. fail 100,000 times and be excited because you’re smart and you’re learning from it

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@visakanv

· Jul 11, 2020

fuck fixed mindset, all my homies hate fixed mindset

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 11, 2020

for me there was a kind of egoic clinging to my first identity (mathematician) and i had to experience ~ego death to be able to let it go enough to do something else. this was terrifying and it took years and i didn't do it very cleanly. "fixed mindset" doesn't quite capture it

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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it's not exactly that i didn't think i was capable of anything else, but more that in order to do something else i had to become a stranger to myself, and a certain vision of what i thought my future looked like had to die

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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actually the best description i've ever seen of this dynamic is in this blog post by

@meditationstuff

where he talks about "acquiring a linear ratchet" but it's not the easiest reading:

meditationstuff.wordpress.com

karma, losslessness, developmental stage models, violence, world; including Ken Wilber and Robert...

[These ideas are not all my own. They draw from so many people, not all of whom are explicitly named below.] [If you lose the thread a lot, it’s me, not you. This is a draft.] To get things g…

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 11, 2020

this description from

@krzhang

is pretty good too 😅

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Yan Zhang

@krzhang

· Jun 21, 2020

Replying to @krzhang @nosilverv and @QiaochuYuan

.. he gets very caught up in each new trick and feels the new one is "the" one and wants to disavow the rest. QC again: take a step back and see how amazing you are. You have many (quite deep!) skills that can be your unique art to harmonize. Synergize them, appreciate them.

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But you were also lucky to get a non-academic job that didn't make you feel like you were wasting your time