I’ve managed to pretty cheerfully get through 45 years of life with no dreams. Distractions are a very good substitute. Complaints about life being unfair are the dawning of useful insights Excuses are the spice of coffee breaks
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Doerism as a personal preference is great, yay Doerism as hustleporn is tolerable. Emotional labor tax to support universe-denters psyche-sustaining self-talk Doerism as a universalist normative philosophy is to be resisted with all the boneless passivity you can conjure
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Well maybe I do have a sort of dream https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320 …
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Dragging your feet and rolling your eyes is a more potent mode of agency than doerists like to admit, which is why it can be infuriating to well-intentioned people trying to cause positive change. The trick to motivation is to drop the “positive” and just drive change.
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Exhortation is not inspiration. Exhortation is the in-group amplifier drug among already-aligned and activated doers. For the inertial out-group the change-seeking tribe wants to mobilize, the key to motivation is creating disequilibrium.
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Yeah, pretty much woke up, realized I spent 15 years being bitter about high school, and now it's a lot of hard work to catch up on all the life and work I missed while griping

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Better late than never! You live and learn. Everybody goes through it. They either learn and apply the lessons. Or not. But most of us have missed time and life.
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Dreams are just like diamonds: a triumph of monopoly marketing.
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Is it wrong to see a better world is possible, that in the past some have taken those steps, that many faults abound today, and that even small steps forward make us feel we are doing something ... A personal dream gives us the dangerous, threatening place MLK occupied ...
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