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there’s a lot of what feels like earnest but cringe Naval-bros type energy https://t.co/L49gs8zI4m
i think what that energy is is that of someone who’s so engaged in “improving themselves” and trying so earnestly and hard to be somewhere else, they’re just not . . . here with you? and almost can’t respect themselves as they are? which can make them frustrating be with
it’s not that they’re not themselves—it’s that the speed of their neuroses makes it difficult to feel stillness with them unless the quality of my stillness is so settled i can see the stillness and joy and empty childlike delighted curiosity among them https://t.co/wL4p7wHzm1
maybe it’s that the speed of other’s neuroses (especially when they are similar to us — parallel to us) shears our own neuroses in that direction and noticing this, we get annoyed. https://t.co/fo5VPgLIsh
