The people we care abt shape our ideas of success. We are social creatures; we live for each other even if we don't want to admit it
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Anybody who tweets, cares about what other people think. Pretend that this isn't true is a losing game. Rather, we should get better at it
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By better, I mean: lets choose our friends more carefully, focus on who and what we want to care about, reward, celebrate
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Even now, ~10 tweets in, a voice in my head goes "dude, stop, you're overdoing it" – but that's me worrying about ppl I don't care about
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Which brings me back to this – the importance and utility of being weird, in the right ways. #weirdheart
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This was a much better read than I originally expected and it is giving me Strong Feelings that I shall tweet about now twitter.com/visakanv/statu
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Barbell strategy applied to emotions: Being able to have Very Strong Feelings + also being able to be zen-calm when situation calls for it
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When I was a teen I thought being able to have Very Strong Feelings was the most important thing, bc The System had a lobotomizing effect
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As 20s working adult, I thought being able to Put Away Your Feelings was the most important thing, bc I needed to be responsible+functional
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Sobering realisation: I have been unemployed for 2 days and I’ve already experienced an expansion in emotional range. It’s like my subconscious has been repressing itself for years, hoping it would help me function more efficiently
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The last on-site job I had, I had to quit because they expected such ludicrous doses of emotional performance at all times (was a sales job).
They essentially tried to hijack their employees' endocrine systems, and it showed in the people who had been there the longest. Creepy.
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For every job in one industry that expects you to numb your feeling down and reduce your emotional range to less than an octave...
... there are others that demand you only play a certain chord progression, day in and day out. They may even expect to decide your beliefs for you.