Chris Guillebeau and Austin Kleon posted new notes

Chris Guillebeau and Austin Kleon posted new notes

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Chris Guillebeau and Austin Kleon posted new notes Chris Guillebeau You follow 5d I wrote about Alexei Navalny and his “secret” for accepting difficult circumstances—even extremely hard things—and I found this exercise to be deeply moving. The section below is from him. — It’s a fairly easy exercise, because it involves a skill everyone developed in childhood. You may remember crying your eyes out in your bed and exultantly imagining you are going to die right then and there just to spite everyone. Imagine the look on the faces of your parents! How they will cry when it finally dawns on them who they have lost! Choked with tears, they’ll beg you, as you lie quiet and still in your little coffin, to get up and come and watch TV, not just until ten o’clock but until eleven, if only you would be alive. But it is too late, you are dead, which means you are unrelenting and deaf to their pleas. Well, mine is much the same idea. Get into your prison bunk and wait to hear “Lights out.” The lights are switched off. You invite yourself to imagine, as realistically as possible, the worst thing that could happen. And then, as I said, accept it (skipping the stages of denial, anger, and bargaining). I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here. There will not be anybody to say goodbye to. Or, while I am still in… Read More 34 1 3 Austin Kleon You follow 4d This is how so many of my Tuesday… Read More 168 7 3 Chris Guillebeau You follow 4d Everyone you know is fighting a hard battle you… Read More 19 1 See 1 more notes in the Substack app © 2024 Substack Inc. 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe 470