I accept all excuses, but I especially recommend “I have no dreams” if you want my sympathy. Complaints about life being unfair also entertained if you make good jokes.https://twitter.com/iam_preethi/status/1201299751213256704 …
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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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Artistic inertia as a martial art
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