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Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. https://kottke.org/24/08/hopefulness-is-the-warrior-emotion
There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…
One of the thoughts that I had after managing crippling anxiety, last year, was that the mental state of anxiety felt the same as the mental state of chronic pain. It’s that “playing with a cavity with your tongue” thing… where you crossed the same mental area again and again. Seems there was something in…
“Known as “nomophobia,” an incredible portmanteau of the words “no mobile phone phobia,” the fear of being without one’s smartphone has become a common experience as we become more and more reliant upon — or addicted to — those tiny computers in our pockets.” https://futurism.com/neoscope/smartphones-narcissism-nomophobia
According to the World Health Organisation, loneliness is now a “global public health concern”. It says a quarter of older people are socially isolated and between 5 and 15 percent of adolescents, “leading to health risks comparable to smoking daily, excessive drinking and obesity”. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503798/swedish-say-hi-campaign-aims-to-connect-people-reduce-loneliness
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