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Note / πŸ“– Untamed, p.58

No, not her. Yes, her.

Swelling, pressing, insisting: there is a life meant for you that is truer than the one you're living. But in order to have it, you will have to forge it yourself. You will have to create on the outside what you're imagining on the inside. Only you can bring it …

Manifestation happens. Automatically. But studied action often comes with irrational courage even knowing painful consequences. Β 

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Note / πŸ‘€ Saran

Why someone won't do their work


If there's no skill being shown, break it down into what is being done well and what is not. If it has been done properly once, it is wired and if not done well after that, it's a will issue.

IQ vs skill vs will - which is it?

IQ helps become aware of a skill issue. The will + the IQ help to build a skill.

IQ is …

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Note / πŸ‘€ Bret Stephens

AI and mental decline - New York Times

"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeeblingβ€”an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs. As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a …

β€”Bret Stephens, β€œI’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.Β External link,” The New York Times, August 7, 2026

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Note / πŸ‘€ Victor Cheng

Talent - a sole goal?

Individual vs Alliance of Individuals

A talented person, no matter how talented, will never outperfom an alliance of talented people.

If you take help from others in school, it's called cheating. If you take help from others as an adult, it's called 'leadership'. And you're …

You don't have to be brilliant to be successful.

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Note / πŸ“– Untamed, p.53

Be still and know.

I'd read the verse many times before - it didn't suggest "Poll your friends and know" or "Scour the internet and know or "Read books by experts and know". It suggested a different approach: Just. Stop.

StopMovingStopTalkingStopSearchingStopPanickingStopFlailing.

If you just stop doing, you'll start knowing.

Sitting in a place with thoughts darting all over for 10 minutes, even if done for 10 days, will lead to a deeper space - an inner negative space in …

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Note / πŸ“– Untamed, p.49

Using pain to become.

I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I meant to …

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Note / πŸ“– Untamed, p.46

Wild rowdiness

My boiling point was the moment Abby stepped through that doorway. I looked at her, and I could no longer contain myself. I lost control. Fire-red and golden, rolling bubbles of pain and love and longing filled me, brought me to my feet, threw my arms open wide, insisting: There. …

Borrowed from Glennon - The girl I'd locked away at 10 years old, the girl I was before the world told me who to be - and she said: Here …

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Note / πŸ“– Untamed by Glennon Doyle, p.34

A secret Life

"it's what radiates and what can hurt if you get too close to it."

My secret that radiates is that I find women infinitely more compelling and attractive than men. My secret is my suspicion that I was made to make love to a woman and cuddle with a …

we keep ourselves shaken up because there are dragons in our centre like in the snow globes.

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Note / πŸ“– Untamed, p.16

Caged.

Make yourself fit. You'll be uncomfortable at first, but don't worry – eventually, you'll forget your cage. Soon this will just feel like: life. I wanted to be a good girl, so I tried to control myself. I chose a personality, a body, a faith, and a sexuality, so tiny, …

Sati Savitri.

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Note / πŸ“– Marriage and morals, p.254

Child legitimacy and ego

It would seem that it is only with the introduction of the patriarchal system that men came to desire virginity in their brides. Where the matrilineal system exists young women sow their wild oats as freely as young men. Love ad a relation between men and women was ruined by …

In a matrilineal system, a father was expected only to provide love (if at all). Power came from the maternal uncle.

lionesses exhibit the same?

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Note / πŸ“– Marriage and morals, p.232

Paternity and Patriarchy

As soon as the father recognises that the child is, as the Bible says, his 'seed', his sentiment towards the child js reinforced by two factors, the love of power and the desire to survive death. The achievements of a man's descendants are in a sense his achievements, and their …

Applies to women too.

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Note / πŸ“– Marriage and morals, p.146

Marriage - a blend of instinct, economics and religion?

The only act in this whole realm which can be called instinctive in the strict psychological sense is the act of sucking in infancy.

I do not know how it may be with savages, but civilised people have to learn to perform the sexual act. It is not uncommon …

Sex is not an instinct?!! How does society consistently trend towards it?!

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Note / πŸ“– Several short sentences about writing, p.20

Addictive negative spaces in writing

One way to keep sentences short is to keep the space between them as empty as possible.

I don't mean the space between the period at the end of one sentence and the first word of the next.

I mean the space between the period and the subject …

Filling up space is basically the writers mind trying to validate themselves in front of others.

adding details, justifying, randomly adjacent ideas.

Β A pause can help concentrate on …

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Note / πŸ“– Games people play, p.21

Material programming - strokes based on data

The activity of building a boat relies on a long series of measurements and probability estimates, and any social exchange which occurs must be subordinated to these in order for the building to proceed.

Time structuring - an adult form of trying to quench the hunger for recognition. Biggest among the 3 forms of time structuring is material programming.Β 

validation of a good …

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Note / πŸ“– Several short sentences about writing, p.13

Oh the irony of bad writing taught.

You've been taught to believe that short sentences are childish,

Merely a first step toward writing longer sentences.

You'd like to think your education has carried you well past short sentences.

But you've been delivered into wilderness of false assumptions and bad habits,

A desert of …

Suspicously reminds me of AI

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Note / πŸ“– Several short sentences about writing, p.11

A sentence versus a writer

Short sentences aren't hard to make.

The difficulty is forcing yourself to keep them short.

There are innumerable ways to write badly.

The usual way is making sentences that don't say what you think they do.

Which can the reader possibly believe?

Your sentences or …

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Note / πŸ“– Marriage and Morals, p.15

The need for monogamy

The primary motive of sexual ethics as they have existed in Western civilisation since pre-Christian times has been to secure that degree of female virtue without which the patriarchal family becomes impossible, since paternity is uncertain.

How then, do we translate this to modern day marriages without children? What about the lesbian and gay community?

Note / πŸ“– Monte Verita by Daphne Du Maurier

A vibe.

I went and stood beside the wall, my arms folded.
β€œSo you found it at last,” she said. β€œIt took a little time.”
The voice was soft and still and quite unchanged.
β€œDid you bring me here?” I asked. β€œDid you call me when the aircraft
crashed?”
She laughed, and …

The eyes never lie.

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Note / πŸ“– Passionate Marriage, p.34

Self-image

"You don'tΒ think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking."

You can get in bed as the person you know yourself to be or as who you'd like to be. That doesn't necessarily mean you're not being yourself. …

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