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To Contain a Brain

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A big list of things I've spent my time on

2022.07.05 To Contain a Brain On the emotional tupperware, the shelf life of emotions, and knowing oneself The brain is a pretty disobedient organ. It's sentimental at inconvenient times, intrigued by shiny objects, sad for no reason, etc etc. My brain is especially good at wanting to run 10Ks, but only when about to fall asleep. Right instrumentally useful emotion, wrong time. In moments like these, I've started to store emotion for later. I call it emotional tupperware. It's fairly simple. Use writing, drawing, or some other medium to save the emotion for later. For example, my…

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