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Freedom from your grievance-focused thinking becomes possible when you discover that your internal fight with reality has not and is not going to change it. When you stop living in a state of aggression with the way things are—bracing against what is—you discover acceptance and a different level of peace. It doesn’t mean that you should stop trying to change life when it’s not to your liking, but it does mean that you choose to stop fighting against the fact that life is the way it is right now—this is reality, like it or not.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
If you work at Facebook, you dump poison into the body politic of society every day you log into Workplace. Every Phabricator task is a step forward in Facebook's executives unbounded psychopathic ambition for nightmare surveillance capitalism based on digital addiction. (12/)
Stephen, Why Are You So...
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The logic behind these results is that when dealing with a complicated problem, even the smartest person can get stuck. Adding a new perspective or a new set of skills can unstick us, even if the perspective is off-the-wall or the skills are mediocre. The fresh input works much like the Oblique Strategies employed by Brian Eno or the random leaps used by silicon chip algorithms. It’s the difference itself that helps.
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