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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago

you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

thinking can help, but only to the degree that it gets you to act thinking can also lead you to think that you need to do more thinking in this regard you can totally have a thinking addiction, and once you look out for it you start noticing problem thinkers everywhere

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

[solemnly] don’t think and drive

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

the challenging thing is that you can get addicted to intermediate steps that are genuinely helpful, eg at this stage of my picky eater journey I could’ve ended up just watching videos for years Important thing is to take the next step https://t.co/ld6eaaTJ55 https://t.co/17OMBiU0gf

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 7 years ago

As a picky eater I had no experience in the kitchen. I didn’t know how to crack an egg šŸ˜‚ I steeled myself by watching lots of beginner cooking vids on YouTube. Those strangers changed my life. It’s the little things. What do you do with your hands...? How do you hold a knife...? https://t.co/71fh8T8KU1

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/7mbcb1RykZ https://t.co/UzqeCowGPL

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Naval@naval• almost 6 years ago

ā€œNo technique of the mind will free you from the mind.ā€

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2/15/2020
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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv https://t.co/OMg2HhJCJ1

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

you can't think your way out of a courage deficit https://t.co/2zkvGDxcIz

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Mason@webdevMason• over 4 years ago

I could ramble on about this forever, but suffice it to say that former gifted kids with former-gifted-kid complexes are often attracted to the idea that they can turn their mind on itself to manifest the sort of achievements expected of them, and I believe this is usually wrong

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/McPFEFdP5N

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Ava@noampomsky• almost 4 years ago

ā€œyou don’t think your way to a new way of living. you live your way to a new way of thinkingā€ https://t.co/5X1pPFY51B

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