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   IT Omar 😷 🔜 Dice Tower Retreat (itomarhernandez@tabletop.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 19:25:42 JST IT Omar 😷 🔜 Dice Tower Retreat

   This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

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     Ricketson (ricketson@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 04:20:15 JST Ricketson

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     @stevendbrewer @ITOmarHernandez
     This idea that you have to be "the best" at something to justify your efforts seems like a bourgeois value -- where status seeking is an obligation and status is defined by marketable skills.

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     Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ (stevendbrewer@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 04:20:16 JST Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Being a polymath is fun and will get you lots of admiration from people, but it sure doesn't pay very well.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 08:10:44 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #KurtVonnegut is brilliant.
     Everyone should be able to participate in his wisdom.

     I did an OCR of your screenshot:

     Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break, and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:45:17 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no, I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
     And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
     And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:45:20 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
     And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:45:25 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ... to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”

     Might be a good idea to copy them all into one #AltText