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This is a huge part of the premise of my book... man I could probably write my book entirely out of my friends’ tweets https://t.co/7oIPeY7tVL
so introspective stream-of-consciousness writing is one of the ways you you break free from the prison of the mind’s propaganda department, and the final boss battle is to confront the following: https://t.co/Z0jWpJUS8R
you know what, if I procrastinate long enough, my friends are just going to write my entire book for me https://t.co/wpiXtWRgbN
you are the main character in your life btw https://t.co/4iTlpvi0CQ
@DRMacIver sigh my whole book is an attack lol https://t.co/Vw97mxyZef
internal narrative troubleshooting https://t.co/baNJKbyAX0
expressing yourself and describing things is an art just like music, poetry, stand up comedy. you can get better with practice. you can get *masterful* at it. and past a certain threshold, reality begins to rearrange itself around your goals and desires https://t.co/N3ocUCJrFb
can't believe I managed to significantly elevate my material conditions, find a fantastic group of close friends, lose weight, meet my husband, and overall position myself better than my parents did at my age...mainly by incessantly posting online about my internal state
some people call this "cope", in a tone which to me implies a defeatist, avoidant, escapist attitude. I choose to approach it as playing the counter-melodies, arranging artfully around the truth of reality to *support* it in a nourishing & empowering way https://t.co/szyeZ69k6H
can confirm. this is why it’s worth getting good at investigating narratives, and understanding the principles of good storytelling. How you frame your story influences where you direct your attention, which influences your experience of purpose, gratitude and joy https://t.co/vjvXKsXNhT
yep! so the important thing is to periodically be questioning your assumptions and evaluating your motivations https://t.co/6DmZFP9Q2i
yes! you have to earn your own self-respect https://t.co/QNTVmnxgfW
yep! the cool thing is spotting all the little tells that you didn't notice while you were writing the first time https://t.co/iAoFBpaXxv
a little bit goes a long way https://t.co/2AdKtnVcje
yes, and! tangentially, self-loathing is when you become your own abusive boyfriend inside your head. everything you do is trash and fail, but the voice calling you trash and fail is somehow an infallible, trustworthy authority, beyond reproach https://t.co/8I2hcW7GiP https://t.co/qtOkepu51d
you can’t bully yourself into courage, freedom, love https://t.co/XlJNiu2MRL
each part of you has a reason for being https://t.co/QEr3gdj7sx
preemptive strike https://t.co/f1S1QcmW4j
22. technically you can do this anywhere, but Twitter is especially friendly to this process because its container structure encourages you to consider a morsel of thought to be complete all by itself https://t.co/x12yagkX5A
23. and by doing lots of journaling, you will learn more about yourself than you might expect to https://t.co/UlQJxuAERL
24. we can do this for ourselves and we can help each other with it https://t.co/inomSrF0uW
25. Revisiting this absolute banger from Lulie. Today I'm thinking, if people weren't internally conflicted, then nobody would ever do anything "bad". Nobody would smoke cigarettes, eat junk food, stay up too late playing video games. https://t.co/nUwNeTP0JU
'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do. Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant. But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
26. yes https://t.co/D7RtU8eDpk
27. yes https://t.co/SLMsHikPYM
@visakanv It was Socrates who thought that all learning was recollection. I’ve increasingly come to view writing as a kind of Socratic teacher. Reminding me of many things I’ve forgotten and some things I didn’t know I knew.