Quick reminder, especially for you younger undergrads: Discipline is a skill, not a character trait. And just like any skill, it can be practiced and improved upon incrementally. Try not to get discouraged if you have a day, or multiple days, where you are less disciplined than you would like or need to be. Don’t quit. Don’t spend the next week binging Netflix because you think it’s a hopeless endeavour. Just get up the next day and try again. Each day you try is more practice, and each day you practice, you’ll get a little bit better, and that continual improvement will pay dividends in the long run.
Keep at it.
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People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.
holy shit this quote changed my life about four years ago. so crazy that this just resurfaced. i’m really happy.
friendly reminder that people you consider rays of sunshine can:
- get pissed
- get stressed
- experience negative emotions
- cry
- feel rebellious
- be done with everyone’s shit
- be too tired for anything
- feel overwhelmed
- need to be comforted
- get furious and demand to be taken seriously
Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
“There’s people who have it worse.”
Ok. Listen.
Of course abuse is worse for some people than to other people.
If you burn your arm. It hurts. Like it really fucking hurts.
B u t.
If you burn your finger, it also hurts. It still really fucking hurts.
They both hurt. The arm seems worse because the surface of the harm is larger compared to the finger, but that doesn’t mean that burning a finger is painless.
If you tell someone: “there is someone, somewhere who burned an arm”.
That won’t fucking heal their finger.
Those situations don’t cancelled each other out.
The thought of someone burning an arm, doesn’t mean someone can’t burn a finger.
this is arcane knowledge that the human mind cant comprehend
honestly what the fuck does this mean
“Don’t stress yourselves out about it, but don’t ignore the situation”
I declare this Wholesome Knowledge
You’re studying for your future not for the grades!
I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.
Hayao Miyazaki has said on numerous occasions that he wants children to know that even when the world seems harsh and life is hard, it is always still worth living, and there is always something beautiful in it.
That mental health boost is intentional and Miyazaki wants you to believe that you should continue to live, even if just for those little things.
aight i wanna drop the IQ talk but before that i wanna share one last thing:
IQ is meaningless unless it’s ridiculously high or ridiculously low. unless it’s below 70 or above 145 you might as well be any joe shmo on the street. your ability to process information and draw conclusions doesnt matter if youre somebody without compassion or empathy with a genuine interest in helping humanity flourish. if you DO have a high IQ and you dont want to dedicate yourself to being a positive change in the world, fine, whatever, you do you man, you only get one life and you can live it however you choose. however, once you start flaunting that number like it means something without having anything meaningful to show for it, you are in the wrong and people have every right to think less of you. someone with 103 IQ who chooses to be a veterinarian or an ambulance driver or something is a better person than someone who has 157 IQ and chooses to trade stocks and talk about how smart they are online.
thats all. thank u for hearin me out. im gonna try to fuggin sleep now.
