sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Be bored more often.
Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
In those quiet moments, you'll uncover clarity and inspiration that can't be found in constant stimulation.
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Best mental reset I’ve learned:
If your mind is loud — Write.
If your mind is empty — Read.
If your mind is racing — Walk.
If your mind is tired — Sleep.
If your mind is sharp — Build.
Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
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i love it when a woman slowly steps out of survival mode and starts to fall in love with life again. when her zest for life comes back and when she starts to notice all the magic and blessings around her, it’s the most beautiful thing to witness.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Trump being called a chicken and knowing that will stick means today is the worst day of his life.
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Dr. Malone, you are spot-on with when you write: "I strongly suggest that these data bins, “Very Liberal” through “Very Conservative” are outdated anachronisms, belonging to the 20th century. The current political axis runs more from “collectivist/globalist” to “individualist/nationalist”."
I would further submit that the whole right wing/ left wing construct is misleading, as it puts totalitarianism on both the far right (as fascism) and on the far left (as communism). A more accurate and use…
You don't understand polling. If you are going to ask people to place themselves on a scale, the people you ask must understand the categories. If you use categories not easily understood by the majority you have a useless question. Now there are sophisticated polling that ask a series of questions to affix people in whatever categories you want to use. These of course are better than asking people to self-identify because most people don't like to be seen on the extremes and may fear persecuti…
So Dave you are pointing out that, of necessity, the polls have to operate within whatever "definitional" narrative has been established. This would explain a lot about how polls sometimes miss the mark in terms of uncovering how people really are thinking or feeling. The polls can operate only within categories that have been established in the past and therefore may tend to miss information that deviates from that.
Yes, in general. But, there are ways to get around this. Take racism for example. If you ask people to place themselves on a scale of how racist they are, you aren't going to get very many to admit any racism. But, in the GSS data and other more sophisticated polling, they ask a series of questions that indirectly establish racism, and set those questions in different series, like intermarriage questions and neighborhood questions and diversity questions. And you can add questions or subtract …
What is GSS data? thx
General Social Survey...........been asking questions since 1972 so we can track trends. National Opinion Research Center at U. of Chicago. (Independent from the university)
