Can You Choose Intelligence?

It matters more that you can agree and prove what you’re already taught than that you can innovate that idea — disagree — and genuinely learn to think for yourself. It matters more that you can understand what already is than you can philosophize what could be. It matters more that you can memorize than you can create.

How To Listen To Yourself

I once heard someone say that humans are the only animals who do everything in their power not to be animals.

Every Relationship You Have Is With Yourself

Because it’s not really about feeling love for yourself, it’s being able to feel stable enough that your mindset doesn’t rest in the narrative of a supposed other’s.