We have become too articulate about our suffering & too inarticulate about our strength. The more elegantly we describe our wounds, the harder it becomes to leave them behind. When a struggle becomes part of your identity, overcoming it feels like a betrayal of who you are.

They all want to make it complicated. It’s not. Change your eating habits to prioritize protein and vegetables and real food. Add resistance training. Move more outside of the gym. Those three things done consistently will lead to staggering results for most people.

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i keep coming back to this essay by Nat Eliason "create proof you can do hard things"

This tweet feels like it’s written by someone who thinks their mood is the final authority on existence. It reduces existence to a consumer complaint. Like life is an Amazon delivery you didn’t order. They’re talking about the biggest thing imaginable, being alive, as if it’s

“The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn't exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently … Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.” —Alain de Botton

🔥. Can't wait!

When I deeply evaluate my anger, I realise it is actually directed at myself. The anger is directed at another object/person, because that is an easier/lazier response. On the surface, one is angry at people. Going deeper, it hits that one is angry at their circumstances. Still

“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.” - Henry Miller, Sexus

Only Tom Cruise has participated in more MIs

Awarding Vairamuthu the Jnanpith award legitimises and empowers him while further marginalising all the women who have had the courage to stand up against him. We cannot and should not separate an artist from the art he makes. #metoo

"Language is a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents. The great danger is that we come to mistake the shape for substance, reducing concepts and experiences we cannot name or contain to the words tasked with holding the spill of the ineffable"- Maria Popova

Best thing I read recently - “Intelligence is knowing how to win the game. Wisdom is knowing which game to play.” (Quote by Liv Boeree, a professional poker player. Found it in Gurwinder's essay on gamification.)

“It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”- Aristotle

The older I get, the more I realize intelligence is overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that

Meet Payal Nag 🇮🇳 - Daughter of a daily wage mason - Electrocuted at 8, lost all four limbs - Spotted by Sheetal's coach Kuldeep Vedwan through her painting - Trained with a specialized bow in Katra Now defeated her idol Sheetal Devi at the World Para Archery Series Final 🏆🏅

For health and longevity, your mile time is more important than your VO2max.

"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness,they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness"-Albert Camus