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5 days agoBe the Author of Your Own Resilience
Resilience is often overlooked in personal narratives; changing the meaning attached to unchanged facts reveals agency, adaptation, and survival.
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1 month agoPsychology says the reason most people never truly change isn't laziness - it's that they've built an identity around their flaws that they don't know who they'd be without them - Silicon Canals
People struggle to change not due to laziness, but because their flaws are integrated into their identity, making change feel like a threat to the self.
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6 months agoBook Review: A Significant Life (Todd May) - The Beer Thrillers
First off, Todd May has quickly become one of my favorite philosophers of the present. I first got acquainted with Todd May via the show "The Good Place". His first work I read was Death, which helped me a lot with my own understandings, feelings, and thoughts about death. Especially around the time of Bart's death, and I remember going for a hike at Governor Dick and reading it.
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6 months agoSlackers Against Narrativity
Slacker does not follow a traditional narrative structure. It follows 100 characters around the UT Austin area in a way that seems completely random. There is no protagonist, no story, no thread linking the individual events. Yet, somehow, it is a completely coherent and engaging movie that sparks as many reflections as the number of scenes it has.
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8 months agoWhat Disabled People's Stories Show About Interdependence
Disabled people emphasized interdependence in their life stories, which supported resilience during COVID-19 despite disproportionate harms to employment, quality of life, mental health, and mortality.
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