experience is incompressible - by Nix 🕊

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brute force vs acceptance

Jackson Pollock What unites me and many of my friends is a shared penchant for brute forcing accomplishment. We all learned in one way or another that you could accelerate your pace in the world, your velocity of being, by sheer willfulness. The problem with this acquisitive mindset is it can be really disheartening when you run up against the limits of your own experience: the realization that actually you just don’t, or can’t understand something yet. It’s like when you read a book too early and it just doesn’t make sense. You can pull at the contours of it, see its foggy shape take…

experience is incompressible - by Nix 🕊

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