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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

I've started tagging my posts from @1000wordvomits. One of the tags is named "truths". I have at least 30+ of them. Here they are! 🤓

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 1. If you're not engaging with a fear, you're probably hiding from it

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 2. Most people want quiet, not justice for others. (Justice is tedious, costly, tiresome, painful, etc)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 3. Everything is incredibly fragmented & broken. (Coherence is largely an illusion. Legacy issues are rife. The most we can do is our best.)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 4. Guilt, shame and fear are all signalling mechanisms. If you feel them intensely+constantly, it's a sign that something needs fixing.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 5. The pebble in the shoe is worse than a rocky road.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 6. Progress is cringeborne.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 7. Everything changes, so stop holding on so tight

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 8. Getting shit done is a lot of work

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 9. Boredom is a bug of the mind (usually tired mind seeking hyperoptimal solution in cluttered space with unclear utility-values)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 10. your priorities are what you do, not what you say you'll do

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 11. achieving significance requires taking on responsibility

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 12. the moral failure fixation is a red herring (beating yourself up is a distraction from fixing your problems)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 13. talk is cheap. (this simple, cliche-sounding fact has far-reaching implications – particularly to everything you see, hear, read, etc)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 14. simultaneously, all conversations suffer tremendously from silent evidence and underrepresentation. Who's NOT at the table?

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 15. Bullshit breaks down at the boundaries. It's tedious to refute bullshit, but bullshit refutes itself when it's forced to achieve results

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 16. What got you here won't get you there. The journey requires letting go of past selves. It's always tempting to cling on. Let go.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 17. Freedom requires violence. (Violence is a loaded word, often meaning 'dumb, senseless violence'. Think 'creative destruction'.)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 18. Beyond the laws of physics, almost everything about the reality we inhabit is arbitrarily configured, and can be reconfigured

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 19. Feelings can be wrong and unreliable – and they can be consistently wrong and unreliable in reliable ways (which can be useful)

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 20. You cannot escape the rehearsals. You cannot escape the training. Showtime is 0.01% of the time. Accept this, or quit. Whining is waste.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 21. Some things change, and some things stay the same. If you reflect and review regularly, you'll get a good sense of what they are for you

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 22. Because life is finite, all work has to be done with constraints. Wishful thinking does not change this. Know what your constraints are.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 23. A beautiful statement of intent, without work done, is inferior to inarticulate grunts + work done. Do the bloody work. Toot horn later.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 24. Almost everybody is hideously miseducated. This is a fact of reality that has to be acknowledged and dealt with

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 25. Groups collaboratively author realities. It's incredibly hard to resist the delusion that group reality = objective reality. Resist.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 26. All humans need safe spaces. If the Earth wasn't a safe space, we'd all be dead. Safe spaces should challenge and nourish, not coddle.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 27. You have a set of values and principles, even if you've never articulated them. You can discern what they are by examining your behavior

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 28. One of the easiest ways to be objective about your own work is to produce so much work you don't recognize your own. I recommend it.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 29. It is incredibly rewarding to use your strength to create contexts where others can be nourished. Vulnerability builds relationships.

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits 30. The mind is STAGGERINGLY good at avoiding truths that it finds uncomfortable (this is perhaps the most important truth of them all)

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6/23/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

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@1000wordvomits That's a gd one to end on. Check out https://t.co/6lLILCywC2 if you like, I've begun a process of editing and tagging for public consumption

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6/23/2017