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I’ve been talking about this idea of being “normal” versus being “weird”, you know, fitting in with some kind of sense of what is the way to do things, the normal way, the standard, respectable, good way, versus doing something that just seems off, so you’re like “No, that’s not how you do things. That’s […]

One of the difficult things for so many people, including myself, is this struggle with perfectionism, this idea of trying to make everything perfect, which maybe needs a better name, because it really does not seem to lead to anything close to perfection. And clearly anybody looking from outside can look at me, or anybody

Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. You know that feeling when there’s just too much talking, and it’s like the words that are being said start to lose their meaning. The words start to just sound like nonsense noise. I think we can get that feeling if we simply repeat any word enough times.

To make one more point about fitting in to society: one more thing about it is that, as it’s always changing, the situation, the environment, the ecosystem, the world that this society is living in, we’re constantly undergoing change and transformation, as old ways gradually fade and new ways appear and take over. Of course,

In the last video, I talked about how we have this drive to head to the centre of the crowd, to be away from the edges, to look for safety in the crowd. And although it makes sense in many ways, it also has its dangers, to be here surrounded by others. If the principle,

Another way of looking at this whole “being normal” thing is that when we’re “normal”, when we behave in a way that is accepted by society, or that we consider to be what we believe that society expects of us, that it has this feeling of stability. It has a feeling of connecting with something

There’s a tension that seems to be all over the place, that we want to be able to be ourselves, to live the way that we choose and we think is right, and we want to be free of this kind of oppressive sense of being judged for being different in some way, to break

We can certainly make the case that we live in some kind of cult of speed. It’s a society where speed is increasingly valued as something being important in itself. We have increasingly shortened the timelines that we work with, so that, you know, we think about the old days where you could meet somebody,

What do you do when there’s nothing to do? In life, it seems that we have these times when events are coming fast, there’s too much to do, it’s overwhelming, we don’t have any time, things are just too chaotic, too fast, and we’re overwhelmed. And then we have other times when it seems like

When we look at these kind of surprise coincidences, every time something happens that is just like “Wow, what a coincidence. How could these two independent things completely align in a way that is very surprising?” In the big city I run into somebody I know personally, or two things just end up in the