Being sensitive follows an inverted U-curve. Only up until a certain point does it make your life richer (you notice more nuance, beauty, meaning, atmosphere, moods). Beyond that, it becomes a retreat into yourself. You're not actually feeling more things. You're just experiencing yourself. The senses offer a useful analogy. Imagine the person who has such an impossibly strong sense of smell that he can smell his own nose. Or the one with such hyperacuity he can see even the cornea of his own eyes. However, once the nose becomes perceptible to itself, its own smell would become the dominant odor in the olfactory field. Because it sits at the source of smelling itself. Likewise, in the same way that ringing in the ears can drown out all other sounds, if the cornea were visible to the eye, it would partially obscure everything else we see. So every faculty has a point past which more intensity stops increasing contact with reality and instead starts interfering with it. In fact, a faculty works best when it disappears into its object. Being excessively “sensitive,” although often romanticized, can turn you into an accidental narcissist, insistent on pointing the perceptual “camera” at yourself, when in reality it should be turned outward, in search of the hidden wonders of a world beyond (and greater than) you. In this way, you have to let go of your eyes to see. Let go of your emotions to feel. Let go of yourself to be.

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the great thing ab beating a dead horse with the right hg is that you discover new parts of the horse you didn’t beat before.

What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?

The god with the goddess The boy with the girl

Once again another A++ take, underrated content. The hard pill to swallow is that a lot of content is algorithmically sorted and thus is just what appeals to the lowest common denominator. Loser guys being told they’re actually the prize and their likes/dislikes speak for all men

babe that’s just my enemy I met on hinge

Wearing jeans in the gym and getting looks like I forgot my hijab in Mecca

I love how chain restaurants come with prepackaged decor, but there’s zero aesthetic standardization in terms of what you can play as music. Why is Jamba Juice playing ‘while my guitar gently weeps’

Every religion in history has promised miracles and warned of the apocalypse. Anthropic is the first to file both with the SEC.

Greatness either arrives in an instant, as in biblical revelation Or in the slow layering of years

Just watched ‘Australia’ for the first time. Hugh Jackman’s cattleman character was so gorgeous that I didn’t even care that the movie was woke❤️

Why is my 53y.o. divorced italian-american uber driver complaining to me about hypergamy

I’ve built six side projects with AI in the last 60 days. ∙ 26,766 total website views ∙ lifechanging.emilylai.com is the most viral yet, 10k views in last 24 hours ∙ Total revenue: $6.6k unintentionally. Life changing is more intentional, I added affiliate links with a total of $8.91 made so far lol ∙ I’m learning from each: getting faster, better design, more distribution ∙ Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 seem fairly at parity now for building, I’m still switching between to test ∙ followthemoney.emilylai.com unlocked many conversations with people working in payments and fintech, I didn’t build for that but that was so cool ∙ I’m using AI for the website build, backend, research, video, and graphics for launches. The only thing I don’t use it for is copywriting This all began when I fully AI enabled myself in August. I had never wrote code before! Beyond side projects, I’ve tested Hermes, Tab, Grok Bot, Dots, Instict as my personal assistant agents. I feel like my learning capability and marketing ability has 10x’d. I’m still learning what are the best harnesses and setups to improve outcomes and cut myself out of the workflow further

Women need to leave their hooded eyes alone!!! The soft, languid sultriness is beautiful You’re literally erasing your sensuality

Eros is like a moving flame (unpredictable and captivating, hypnotic almost) whereas the homogenizing forces of modernity cast a sterile artificial light