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We will ignore philosophical nuances, and think of the relation between mental models and possible worlds as roughly the same as the one between a vocabulary and a story (which is why I use the term narrative): a vocabulary restricts the sorts of things that can be said in a story, while a story generally uses only a part of a vocabulary, though it may occasionally leak out via neologisms.
Don’t take yourself seriously, but do take your work seriously. Do what you say you’re going to do. If you don’t, you’ll lose respect for yourself. And if you don’t respect yourself, you’ll find it effortless to trespass across your own boundaries and violate all that you value.
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
Gurwinder
In some ways, weddings are an exercise in group denial, or at least group optimism. Most people essentially ignore the fact that the promise of eternal love doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Sacred Cows
Danielle Teller and Astro Teller
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