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Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we've just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.
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Brene Brown writes: In a 2011 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, researchers found that, as far as the brain is concerned, physical pain and intense experiences of social rejection hurt in the same way...Neuroscience advances confirm what we've known all along: emotions can hurt and cause pain. And just as we often struggle to define physical pain, describing emotional pain is difficult. Shame is particularly hard because..
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Complaining about the universe's unfairness is never part of a successful strategy.
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Brene Brown has found through her research that women tend to feel shame around the idea of being "never enough": at home, at work, in bed. Never pretty enough, never smart enough, never thin enough, never good enough. Men tend to feel shame around the fear of being "perceived as weak," or more academically: fear of being called a pussy. Both sexes get trapped in the same box, for different reasons. If I ask for help, I am not enough. If I ..
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And I've already spent too much time Doing things I didn't want to So if I want to drink alone dressed like a pirate Or look like a dyke Or wear high heels and lipstick Or hide in a convent Or try to be mayor Or marry a writer Smoke crack and slash tires Make jokes you don't like Or paint ducks and retire You can bet your black ass that I'm going to. --from An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer, 2013
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Content isn't king. Conversation is.
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Every Pirate Wants to Be an Admiral IT'S NOT AS though this is the first time we've had to rethink what copyright is, what it should do, and whom it should serve. The activities that copyright regulates--copying, transmission, display, performance--are technological activities, so when technology changes, it's usually the case that copyright has to change, too. And it's rarely pretty. When piano rolls were invented, the composers, whose inc..
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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer's all at once. i am the walrus.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.
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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
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