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Anti-Fragility
When unexpected hardship strikes us like a hammer, do we gain strength? When we lose an eye, can our ear more than compensate? When we lose a family member far too young, can we gain fortitude, as if we were preparing for greater disasters yet to come?
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Decoding Negative Thoughts
Intrusive negative thoughts can be reinterpreted. Those voices are not our friends, and not necessarily our enemies, but rather harsh messengers, trying to deliver information. People respond to those messengers in one of three ways.
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Is Sammie Real?
Mr. Solly! Welcome. May I take your coat? I spotted you from my open window the moment you emerged from the woods.
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Scammed!
Have you ever been scammed in the era of AI? Fooled by connivers using Twitter bots to prey upon your desires? I was scammed this week. By writing about it, I hope to lessen the sting. I’d like to laugh through the nose at my latest escapade, so that it never warrants a paragraph, let alone a chapter, in my future memoirs. But I’m not laughing yet.
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Burnout (Part IV)
If you sense in the air a sapping, the loss of all your strength and joy; if you feel powerless to plan and act and there seems to be no purpose in your life; if you forget how to feel happy and you find no beauty anywhere—not even in a Christmas snowfall or a flaming sunset over purple mountains—then you are probably sliding into the Valley of Burnout on slick…
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