Intensification over aspiration
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what kind of inner dialogue do you use to motivate yourself, if not "do better"? Genuinely curious
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Why do you need motivational dialogue? Just doing whatever seems interesting seems to work well enough. Sometimes you grow, sometimes you degenerate, sometimes you hold steady.
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Oddly enough, I was the least rebellious teenager ever. Simple open rejectionism is not actually much fun. Quiet, imaginative subversion of over-evangelized norms, served slightly chilled, is much better. That takes adult sensibilities/agency. Teens can't really pull that off.
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Do you actively have people telling you this now, or is this a reflection of younger years?
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Fortunately not happened to me directly+personally especially often nor or ever. Par for the course I suppose, or even slightly less than average. But there's a lot of it around now, and quite often an admonition/exhortation applies to me even if I'm not the direct target.
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Yeah, such exhortations seem simplistic. I find that when someone isn’t “doing better”, what they crave is actually finely attuned nuance, or a contextually sensitive inquiry, not a platitude
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Taleb said a similar thing..."You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt”
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You and my six-year-old
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this might explain Trump's tweets given Melania's anti-bullying campaign.
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