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🎥 Sing like no one is listening. Draw like no one is watching. Write like no one is reading.
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🔗 The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing
It’s a teenage rite of passage to explode into rage at your parents. While the usual outburst is sparked by some combination of hormones, insecurity, and authority issues, for me it was a popping sound in my father’s jaw. I first noticed it at the dinner table. Every time he took a bite, the disc of cartilage that cushioned his jawbone would slip out of place and snap back. Chew, click, chew, click. Like a drum, his mouth reverberated the sound, which changed in pitch each time he opened to take a bite. Layered beneath all of this was the wet percussion of normal chewing. The trio — jaw pop, meat squish, fork scraping teeth — became inescapable. And it drove into me, first through my chest, a surprising shock of affront and disgust that then suffused through my whole body. It was the first time I ever got scared that I wasn’t in control of what was inside my own head.
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Devotion, not discipline is the secret to sustained action
The Devotion-Friction Matrix of devoted action has four states:
Flow (high devotion, low friction) where action feels natural and repeatable; Strain (high devotion, high friction) where caring is high but the cost of doing it is high too; Coasting (low devotion, low friction) where you keep going mostly because it’s easy; Avoidance (low devotion, high friction) where the task feels both unrewarding and hard to start, so it gets postponed or completely dropped.
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