When strength training, there’s a moment when you teleport into hyperreality. A fourth dimension. Your muscles boil against unbearable weight, and you switch from moving iron to discovering what you’re made of.| kupajo
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If life’s a garden, you want bees zipping among every plant, cross-pollinating your hobbies, interests, work, and daily experiences. Because the best lessons are often picked up in one area of life and applied elsewhere.| kupajo
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Working Wisdom: Field Notes for Early Life is now available. It's a book of practical wisdom for people starting their personal development journey from zero.| kupajo
It’s easier to put a puzzle together when you know what it’s supposed to look like.| kupajo
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Male grayling butterflies prefer to mate with darker female graylings. When caged with a female grayling and a cardboard cutout of a grayling painted black, the male will choose the cardboard cutout over the female. Beyond being an example of bro falling for an unrealistic standard of beauty, such a preference reveals that even in matters fundamental to survival and reproduction, these creatures can be seduced by artificial models they’d never encounter in nature.| kupajo
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For those of us with woefully average gray matter, our minds have limited reach. For the past, they are enthusiastic but incompetent archivists. In the present, they reach for the most provocative fragments of ideas, often choosing what’s shiny over what’s clear.| kupajo
Most of life's wisdom isn't complicated, it's just hard to internalize at the right moment. Browse some Field Notes for Life.| kupajo
Words expose us. Even when you’re not writing something personal, your style pervades in your word choice and rhythm, in the subtle ways you attempt to organize something meaningful.| kupajo
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