Becoming a Genius of Loss - by Sasha Chapin
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on the mastery of an important skill
It’s easy to avoid thinking of loss. Our daily schemes are bent towards acquisition. We look at the next thing we want, rather than what’s dropping away. But, much as we might become skilled in acquiring things, life is totally about losing everything. That shoe, that hair, this love. Leaving it all behind is really the only thing you absolutely must do. It can be helpful to realize that you need to become a genius of loss. You need to become brilliant. You will become brilliant, at least along some narrow dimensions, in the course of losing things you thought essential, things which you…
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