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“The difference between an artist who finds sales and someone like Vincent van Gogh, who never did, is that van Gogh quietly changed the world—while others simply passed through it.”
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“So bullshitting isn’t just nonsense. It’s constructed in order to appear meaningful, though on closer examination, it isn’t. And bullshit isn’t the same as lying. A liar knows the truth but makes statements deliberately intended to sell people on falsehoods. bullshitters, in contrast, aren’t concerned about what’s true or not, so much as they’re trying to appear as if they know what they’re talking about. In that sense, bullshitting can be thought of as a verbal demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect—when people speak from a position of disproportionate confidence about their knowledge relative to what little they actually know, bullshit is often the result.”
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In our culture, external validation is valued over internal satisfaction.
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follow in someone’s footsteps
idiom
: to do the same things that another person has done before.
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“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.” — Suzy Kassem
Word Series: A Copy of A Copy Poster. This is a copy of a copy poster. Size: 18 x 24 in. On a matte paper. Heavyweight stock.
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“Don’t support the phonies, support the real.”
— 2Pac
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“The value of art lies in its power to inspire, not in its price tag.”
— Unknown
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“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money.”
— Oscar Wilde
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The dopamine, the deceitful dopamine, gives them a false sense of value.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
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You are what you hate. What you hate says a lot about who you are and what you value.
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The response in the body when we dislike someone
In order to understand what happens in your body when you dislike someone, you can start by trying to understand #fear. As Robert Sapolsky writes in “Why Your Brain Hates Other People,” when we see someone who even looks different from us, “there is preferential activation of the amygdala,” which means the brain region associated with fear and aggression flares up. This visceral, emotional reaction can spark a long-term pattern of dislike when it’s validated by action: if you perceive that someone has hurt you, your fear of them becomes rational.
Our negative feelings toward someone get stronger as bad experiences with them pile up, and these negative thoughts trigger the fight-or-flight response in our bodies. As AJ Marsden, assistant professor of Psychology at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, puts it, “our fight-or-flight response is our bodies way of dealing with a stressor.”
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Stressors that trigger fight-or-flight need not be life or death, though, says Marsden: “Sadly, our body cannot tell the difference between an actual stressor (being chased by someone with a knife) and a perceived stressor (having work with someone you hate).” This is why seeing posts from your high school bully can make you feel the anxiety of being bullied all over again: your fearful associations with disliking the person trigger your own need to protect yourself.
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Source: headspace.com
Art Series: The Middle Finger #Organic T-Shirt.
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follow in someone’s footsteps
idiom
: to do the same things that another person has done before.
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“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
— Jackson Pollock
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“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
— Jackson Pollock