Embracing openness, seeking closeness Yin/yang, partner dance, improv, singing/harmony, game dev https://xitter.cf/t.co/UBndqTSBQ5
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I mean it's an issue from the leader side too. Caring about the people you lead means engaging with how you've inevitably disappointed them or pissed them off. If you don't want to ignore feedback, the other way out is to not take on leader responsibility
Curate your landscape so that you are always flowing downhill. Generate momentum that drives further action. Like tossing a tennis ball up compels you to swing at it
This question is essentially at the heart of what I write about on my substack:
yinsuperman.substack.com/p/t…
I wrote about this in the context of dating but it really applies to everything:
yinsuperman.substack.com/p/w…
Polarity creates a compulsion to act. It's the same as literal magnetic poles: greater polarity = steeper gradient = stronger force
xitter.cf/array_hog/status/19527…
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You have some ability to simulate seeing your bottlenecks by holding two different perspectives, but this gets greatly magnifed in closer relationships because you can hit your integration limit more.
This extra sight and motivation to expand it makes good relationships.
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You’re not supposed to love anyone more than yourself, I think. You’re just supposed to find someone you can categorize as “yourself” for the purpose of love (Do Not Do This if you hate yourself though)
a close relative of the philosophical zombie is the zombie who studies string theory and likes BRAAANES
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane
This is a great take! It's all too easy to turn "some friction is good" into "people have it so easy these days, we need more suffering to build character"
