Shedding Error
Difficult admissions:
* I find it easier to be uncomfortable than to be comfortable. That is not to say I enjoy it more; merely to say that suffering comes a little too naturally to me. This needs to change, not merely for my sake but for that of those I'm close with.
* I can't labor any longer under the delusion that I don't care what people think if they're not kin. For better or worse I'm exquisitely sensitive to expectations, and I may as well own that trait and start leveraging it by taking an active role in making people expect me to be the kind of person I need to be.
* Small really is beautiful. I get more enduring psychological benefits from having accomplished something concrete and imperfect than chasing after the perfect abstraction. Something is always going to be wrong; just keep fucking going.
* The point of having money is so you don't need to think about money, and it really is okay to sell your art. Fear of losing integrity is for people who don't know where their core really is. Howard Roark was a piker.
* I find it easier to be uncomfortable than to be comfortable. That is not to say I enjoy it more; merely to say that suffering comes a little too naturally to me. This needs to change, not merely for my sake but for that of those I'm close with.
* I can't labor any longer under the delusion that I don't care what people think if they're not kin. For better or worse I'm exquisitely sensitive to expectations, and I may as well own that trait and start leveraging it by taking an active role in making people expect me to be the kind of person I need to be.
* Small really is beautiful. I get more enduring psychological benefits from having accomplished something concrete and imperfect than chasing after the perfect abstraction. Something is always going to be wrong; just keep fucking going.
* The point of having money is so you don't need to think about money, and it really is okay to sell your art. Fear of losing integrity is for people who don't know where their core really is. Howard Roark was a piker.