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#743 Ditching the high heels and walking home in bare feet on the sidewalk after a long night

August 15, 2018August 8, 2018 Neil Pasricha

It's time to breathe againGive yourself a break and peel them off a bit early.

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#744 That smooth feeling on your teeth right after you get your braces taken off
#742 That rubbery metal smell of old hardware stores

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You know that person who makes you feel like your best self?

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These tougher conversations require calm minds, patient listening, and deep emotional reserve … but were coming up precisely when we had the least amount of any of those things.

Leslie came up with a phrase that helps us save them for a better time. https://x.com/i/article/2110199150591754240

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I have been writing down 1 awesome thing a day for almost 20 years.

Awesome things can simple, free, universal, snappy, idiosyncratic, nostalgic, silly, joyous, poignant, or even bittersweet.

I have never been writing from a place of mastery – just one of looking and learning

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13 Oct

I recently read the 1995 classic ‘Thoughts Without a Thinker’ by Mark Epstein.

He writes:

“The thoughts in our minds keep endlessly chattering as if beyond our control.”

Here are a few of my favorite pages: 4

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