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How Pixar (and My Wife) Taught Me How to Empathize: a beautiful piece about empathy and a simple, yet powerful blueprint to help a loved one going through depression/or a tough time.
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Why the Depth Year Was My Best Year: probably one of the few online written pieces I’ll return to. David (who wrote this) beautifully and perfectly captured the emotions that are at stake when digging deeper into a hobby, a field, or an art. He writes with such accuracy about why we tend to spread our attention instead of committing to something.
An excerpt:
“I think more often we stop digging because we find something extremely painful about working past a certain point, and we don’t want to sort it out. We don’t want to run into our limits, we don’t want to feel dumb, we don’t want to get rejected. We don’t want to put our hearts on the line if we don’t have to, and all the important things involve our hearts.
Relationships, for example, can only go so deep when you’re afraid to risk rejection, say what you really think, or reach out to people who might respond badly, or not at all.
Creativity is easy to turn away from for the same reason. It’s risky. Trying to draw something for the first time in a decade is terrifying. Showing people your work is even scarier.
So we live in great danger of inadvertently keeping our most cherished pursuits, the ones that promise the most fulfillment, buried down there in the realm of “potential,” where they’re safe from the real world and its limitations. In the meantime, we find other things to do—things that offer less meaning, but more assured outcomes—and we just get older.“
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21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties: one of the hardest thing to do in my opinion is to throw a good party. Most of us would just send online invitations and book a table in a bar or at a restaurant thinking the job is done. But that’s only the beginning.
I love this one: “Throughout the party, prioritize introducing people to each other and hosting the people who are new or shy, even at the cost of getting less time hanging out with your best friends yourself. Parties are a public service, and the guests will (hopefully) pay you back for this by inviting you to parties of their own.“
- Taste isn’t a screenshot (by Anton Sten) : a good reminder of the difference between knowing and understanding something and why it matters. I can relate to this because I have a very hard time explaining why a movie is a good movie, although I KNOW it’s a good one, so whenever someone asks me “Why did you like this movie?” my answer “I just loved it” sounds like a terrible answer to give.
So if you want to determine if you just “know” something or really understand something, ask yourself why it is good or bad. And if you can answer with clarity, then you understand it. - With Grace (written by Leah Reich): An honest writing about how it feels to be rejected from a job. The lines I loved most:”The nature of my rejection — after all, I had told many friends about my excitement, and they all saw my defeat — was mortifying. I didn’t know which was worse, not getting the job or feeling embarrassed that people I knew and respected had to see me fail. Victory is public. Our rejections and failures are deeply private.“And yet, what I’ve noticed it’s when we dare to talk about our failures, we connect with others the deepest.
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