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(here's the 1-tweet version of the book, which has been quietly doing a lot for me in the background)
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Be a nerd about what you love, publicly, in an inviting and nourishing way, over a long period of time. Make friends in the process who love and support what you do. It really works, I promise!
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phrasing "quietly doing a lot for me in the background" comes from ; it's been quietly doing a lot for me in the background
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the phrase "solving all your problems on your own terms" has been quietly doing a lot for me in the background. thanks mark 
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also, can't have a thread of things that have been quietly doing a lot for me in the background without mentioning this beautiful parts monologue from
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Replying to @visakanv @metaphorician and @metaLulie
Oh god, I’ll try
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also this (specifically the phrasing of "neutral became the default" / "rumination was the default", which somehow felt fresh / prompted me to pay attention to thinking slightly differently in the days after seeing it)
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For me there was a serious of shifts where neutral became the default unless I was actively deciding to do something. Before rumination was the default and i didn’t know how to “do” neutral, because getting there required *not* doing things I was already doing by accident
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thanks twitter for quietly doing a lot for me in the background +++
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