qing (@qingwang) • Hey
Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and can’t make a change.
Publications
- No one wants to be annoying or intrusive, but at the same time, in many instances the situation calls for just that.
- Mental and emotional pain per se are just about the most normal thing in life.If you never felt sad or inadequate, that would be pretty good evidence that something is wrong with you.
- we all face challenges, and survival often feels like the bare minimum requirement to move forward.But the more I thought about it, the more unsettled I became.
- It is easy to forget that, unlike the mirror, it is not reality that becomes accessible through a photograph but an image.
- In today's digital age, the allure of capturing and sharing even the most mundane aspects of our lives has birthed a thriving vlogging culture.
- "And if you're a little impatient by nature and focus on delays first, time pressure magnifies that impatience.Time pressure has different effects for different people.It enhances inherent bias."
- If the eyes are windows to the soul, maybe the voice is its song or soundtrack.Maybe this is the weirdest part about talking less — a sort of pervasive soullessness.That might be an exaggeration, but the voice does sometimes feel like a rope connecting subconsciousness to reality.
- Activities like exercising, learning a new skill, or connecting with others not only enhance our mood immediately.They also promote our long-term happiness and personal growth.
- perhaps learning new things excites you, but your routine doesn't leave room for it.
- For many of us, there has been more discouragement than the opposite.Somewhere along the way, we were told to sit down and behave, which meant not truly listening to ourselves.
- "How lucky we are to 'meet' across time and space.
- We may be entering an era in which people feel like they don't need to learn how to draw or write because they can just ask a machine to do these things for them.
- blue's prominence in the world is surprisingly tenuous, resting on the scattering of light rather than true coloration.
- We can end up responsible before we have been rebellious; or so-called kind before we've tried out naughtiness.
- People romanticize working in the media, fashion, film, fine and performing arts and other cultural industries, but the work often ends up being more drudgery than glamour.
- At most stages in your life, if you're committed to practice and improvement, that figure means you'll be ahead of about half of your competition, but still be behind the other half.
- Participants who reported higher levels of social media integration in their daily lives, meaning they spent more time on these platforms and felt more emotionally connected to them, were more likely to experience social media-related nightmares.
- And I was already stressed to the max … you have no idea the stress that I am under."
- "I thought, running as fast as I can is all I need when the fact it kills me the most"
I try to cling onto these words whenever I feel overworked.I — sometimes — think that everything needs to be done right away, and boom!I got overwhelmed.Overwhelmed over the things that "need to be done right away" and somehow "need to be perfect."
- So much of our lives today are lived within parameters designed to further entrench us in perspectives we already have.
- In the first few days of journaling, I was astounded by the thoughts and feelings that surfaced, which I'd previously been too busy or too distracted to acknowledge.
- We assume a hero is someone who was born with superpowers, knows exactly what they're doing, and are never doubting themselves, ever.But if these characters already know everything, then they learn nothing.So they can't show emotional depth.No wonder the storyline is bland.
- It's good to be imperfect.Perhaps if you were perfect, you'd be insufferable.
- "A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that experiences tend to produce more enduring happiness than material possessions — and, as we find here, enhanced feelings of social connection,"
- This means that the more effort one has to put into making a decision, due to causes like more variety, the less likely it is that those decisions will benefit us.
- Explanations are mostly theoretical, which at this point, I'll take.
- Was doing fine, did the last step wrong, ugh, very frustrating.
- Sometimes you even care about yourself: Your health, your happiness, your life goals…Whatever.
- A survey examined how confident Americans feel when it comes to keeping up with pop culture and found that 49 percent feel they are out of touch with society today.
- "Do things to increase your level of relaxation and reduce the amount of activities you're performing."
- Let's be our truest selves and keep all our troubles away.
- It's been a very disorienting day with all the things that have been going on.
- uncertainty acts like rocket fuel for worry; it causes people to see threats everywhere they look, and at the same time it makes them more likely to react emotionally in response to those threats.
- Always losing money in recent months, the market is so hard.
- Whether you're a young professional mapping out your career path, a seasoned worker eyeing a career pivot, or a retiree looking for an enriching hobby, make sure to gravitate towards activities and projects that challenge your mental muscles.Your future self's brain health may just depend on it.
- boredom does not need to be a negative experience.When recognised and harnessed correctly, it can be used as a tool to boost both happiness and creativity.
- Read the novel you bought but never found time to open, start a journal or give yourself time to soak in the bath.
- "the meaning (interpretation) of disposal plays a critical role"
- A study has found that writing down your reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper and then shredding it, or scrunching it into a ball and throwing it in the bin, gets rid of anger.
- Embodying the excitement of spring, this new cultural phenomenon represents freedom, self-expression, and a deep connection with nature.
- "I feel overwhelmed when you constantly complain about your job."
- You understand that the most challenging and significant relationship you have is with yourself.
- In education, the implications include a change in the way those in academia deliver content and engage with their students, with more access being via tools such as ChatGPT, and administrative automated tasks.
- The added comfort and lower stress levels promoted by casual clothes leads to improved employee morale, productivity, and creativity.
- Aging is inevitable, but on a cellular level, it's also malleable – known to accelerate during times of stress, yet reversibly so.
- It's a torturous market right now, when will it break out to the upside.🌈
- g(y)m
inspired by @lens/nader
- At the beginning of the year, farmers till the soil, giving crops the best possible environment and more nutrition.
- They're ignored because they complain excessively, hence they start to assume that expressing what they need isn't good.
- As I have taken some time to reflect recently on everything that has transpired in my life, I've come to the conclusion that life is a journey of letting go.