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Why I stopped talking about my feelings (lemmy.world)
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[–] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm fully aware of the irony of downplaying how complicated emotions can be ITT, but after all my years depressed or whatever mixture of things I am, I think the simpler concepts have done me the most good overall really.

I came across these 5 words a couple years ago, and it struck me as the exact advice I needed for a long time.

Don't believe everything you think.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    "The mind is an excellent servant, but a terrible master." David Foster Wallace

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Web searched it, and the quote from his speech "This is water" is actually

    Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth.

    Edit: The speech was a good read

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Thanks for the added context and providing a link for folks! It's a decent commencement speech overall and I appreciate the attention he draws to the importance (and difficulty) of perspective in it. If anyone understood the "great and terrible truth" of the adage, it would be him.

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