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It’s the perfect amount of time to game plan for the day on the way in and unwind for the evening on the way back. Longer is just wasted time, less isn’t enough to switch headspaces
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work is not in MY HOUSE it’s a silly place i go. listen to a podcast! enjoy the magic of public transit! bask in the shared situation with your other cogs in the machine before going click clack at a computer all day.
Feb 1, 2024
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i like a 15-20 min walk but even a 5 min march around the block would be good
while walking I listen to podcasts that have nothing to do with work (nymphet alumni is a fave here)
spend abt 20 min eating my lunch
ideally id spend the last 20 min reading but I usually am playing solitaire on my phone for a brain break or catching up on socials
make a cup of tea in the last couple min to start the afternoon well
May 8, 2024
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taking your 15 min every single chance you get, also smoke breaks- who cares if you don’t smoke, enjoy the fresh air
Jan 31, 2024
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Empathy helps you understand why someone feels the way they feel without forcing you to accept that they are correct to feel that way. You can walk a mile in someone’s shoes and then turn around and tell them their shoes are shit and recommend new ones.
Tolerance makes you blind to the injustices of the world and forces you to accept even the most disgusting of viewpoints as “equal”.
Example: You can empathize with a racist. You can understand the cultural brainwashing that led to it. But you shouldn’t be tolerant of it. Plus, being empathetic to why they feel that way makes them more comfortable doing the same in return. Hostility breeds hostility. Empathy breeds empathy. Empathy brings us all together.
Feb 5, 2024
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It's one of the most wild and mind bending philosophy/psychology books I've ever read. It almost encourages you to give up and put the book down in frustration. It feels like it's aim is to so completely break down the way we conventionally approach mental illness and the larger human experience that it speaks in borderline gibberish at times, requiring you to fundamentally alter your mindset to even begin to understand what they are talking about.
"It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines—real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections. An organ-machine is plugged into an energy-source-machine: the one produces a flow that the other interrupts. The breast is a machine that produces milk, and the mouth a machine coupled to it. The mouth of the anorexic wavers between several functions: its possessor is uncertain as to whether it is an eating-machine, an anal machine, a talking-machine, or a breathing machine (asthma attacks). Hence we are all handymen: each with his little machines."
Feb 5, 2024
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I’m probably the only one lol
Feb 7, 2024