The first one is the courage to play: to not be afraid of one's own mind, to construct sandbox worlds, to engage w/ conspiracy theories & other taboo narratives, to shamelessly enjoy the flora & fauna of mental life, to not take any of it too seriouslyhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1108509096825614336 …
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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 …
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Mason 🏃♂️ ✂️ @webdevMasonIMO, we're trying to fill the gaping chasm where master apprenticeship used to be with a bunch of productivity hacks duct-taped together, largely gathered from writers and guru types who have the audacity to think they can reverse-engineer what they can't do themselvesShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 41 likesShow this thread -
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
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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
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently to Achieve Greatness. Boo, hiss. Shut up. They all READ SCIENCE FICTION, that's what they do.
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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
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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
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If you're picking up on some thematic trends in these recent "pep-talky" tweets, yup, it's X-Men. You're the mutants and I SEE YOU even if you don't see each otherpic.twitter.com/NpiiYzzrx7
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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.
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I 100% endorse doing this, btw. Find stories that really click for you and go walk the hero's path. The "bad guy" in X-Men isn't really the villain of the week, it's isolation — specifically, the kind of isolation that causes people to reject their own gifts
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Most important idea here is “don’t take it too seriously.” We need a compilation video of theoretical physicists looking at their work, saying, “Huh. Well that’s f***ing weird.” We don’t *really* know what’s up, ever, on any level & we’re nicer to each other when we grok that
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You are now subscribed to Visa tweets, let me know if you ever want to unsubscribehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1090131567802908678?s=21 …
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visa is cleaning out his notes @visakanvIMO our problem is less that “communication is lossy” and more that we *fail to appreciate* that communication is lossy. If we truly appreciated this, we would all give each other a lot more time and space to revise our statements. but we don’t, because https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044880239158022144?s=21 …Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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visa is cleaning out his notes @visakanvA big part about talking about cultural things is getting things wrong. RIght? How can you get things right the first time around? If you're interested in something, you're going to explore, you're going to hypothesize, and you're going to be wrongShow this thread0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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