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The second one is the courage to be master *and* apprentice: to build real relationships around real things, to be fearlessly intimate, to deeply & vulnerably love the part of each person you know that represents who they are when all cylinders are firinghttps://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/998861908135432193 …

People *know it* when you look at them and see their best selves — not the facade they're trying to sell you on, but the real thing that's under like a thousand layers of insecurity and pointless pseudo-introspective looping. If you wanna go after a superpower, go after that one

How do you become courageous? Humans do this with storytelling & rituals, two very flexible & effective formats for information + emotion transfer that we've either delegated to the institutions of mass culture or basically scrubbed from modern life

10 Things Successful People Do Differently to Achieve Greatness. Boo, hiss. Shut up. They all READ SCIENCE FICTION, that's what they do.

I'm trying to figure out How Humanity Wins. The TLDR: "people play a LOT, alone & with each other, with their whole hearts." But they can't right now; it's too scary, they never learned how, they've been punished for it, Hollywood & churches took the tools for self-determination

For what it's worth, I'm a thoroughly messed up person who gets scared *all the time.* Every single negative trait or tendency stated or implied in this thread is something I've seen in myself. I don't have the missing manual and I'm starved for better stories

I know it's not a Very Serious Person Doing Very Serious Things sort of thing to admit, but everything I'm doing right now is basically powered by X-Men self-insert daydreaming. I was so, so lonely when I was a kid. I wish someone had seen me.