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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

there’s a line i think about all the time from a @dschorno essay that goes shamans had day jobs

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

shamans had day jobs https://t.co/PAeoO7wsUr

Rudra Dakini@the_wilderless• about 2 years ago

We talk a lot about the general grey fog of modernity that saps aliveness and all that, but The sniper-precise anti-eros lasers are fucking impressive too So many funnels for finding *exactly* what you’re passionate about, and turning it into your torture chamber . https://t.co/iQ4yJxfNoh

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

is that true? i didn’t verify it. but the act of uttering that statement is powerful what we love becomes something precious, something to nurture, nourish, and protect

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

in a two hour podcast, john mayer said he used to come back from school every day and play guitar for hours. it was his secret project. he felt like he was in 21 Jump Street, the way his undercover mission was ostensibly being a student, but his real mission was playing https://t.co/RV8rY39PwD

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

going back home every day, spending hours, the secret undercover project, the thing he did because he did

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

he did that long enough that he became good at it, never lost his taste. he did that most magnetic thing of a creator: decide what he liked, and what he didn’t like

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

i wonder if he would have burned out if he tried to commercialise it day 1, before he even loved the guitar. before it was his every day, his space away from bullying, from school

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

that kind of relationship does something. it buffers you. john mayer absolutely did want to commercially succeed—really badly, and optimised got that. but his relationship to guitar was buffered, developed, established https://t.co/RoerOBLwjr

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

what im saying is: friendships are like fluffy pillows under your butt they keep the ride smooth and vibey even when you encounter bumps in the layer above frenship pillows https://t.co/pA90QTdvFC

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

i started tweeting a long time ago, for not likes or retweets, but as my journal people say all the time about how hard starting an account is, i never experienced that; my relationship tweeting was buffered, protected

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

i really hope to make it more widely seen, but i’m keeping it on a very tight leash, of staying in the happy soul-nourishing craft zone. it’s my baby

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

i’m not in a rush to make healing my career. actually, maybe i’d rather not. maybe i’d rather it be a magical thing that flows out from me to all my friends or simply by virtue of me being me. i have a day job

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

protect what you love from the mandate it must be professionalised https://t.co/Wor8ByOxMO

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𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth i remember seeing it a youtube video but i cant find it lol

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @dschorno

@dschorno @AskYatharth this narrows it down quite a bit… one of these? https://t.co/kYbtaRm81Q https://t.co/IvegeYEH05

𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 5 years ago

Youtube just recommended me a ted talk about indigenous shamanism and the only real takeaway I have is that shamans have day jobs!?!? "he was a goat herder by day and healed people by night" noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv @AskYatharth lmao nice https://t.co/QVF8broSVh https://t.co/PrBXSLK9UJ

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𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @dschorno

@visakanv @AskYatharth great teamwork! haha i actually had found that in my history but i was dubious that i'd watched the video a full year before i published the essay, though now that i think about it i remember that id written that jobs section long before i wrote anything else

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@dschorno @AskYatharth this one I’m guessing https://t.co/kX8JlRPDyh https://t.co/MKkPpayctx

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𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv @AskYatharth no but apparently it's the same guy https://t.co/GoyEsGHcHd

𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 2 years ago

@visakanv @AskYatharth lmao nice https://t.co/QVF8broSVh https://t.co/PrBXSLK9UJ

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px@peakexperiments• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth @dschorno Having a day job is like running away from a tsunami. You have to do it and it pulls you away from your real interests and it gets to decide how long you are pulled away and how much of your energy gets diverted to it. "By the sweat of your brow will you eat" etc

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