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Write to Escape Your Default Setting
For those of us with woefully average gray matter, our minds have limited reach. For the past, they are enthusiastic but incompetent archivists.
Let’s call your mind’s default setting ‘perpetual approximation mode.’ A business idea, a scrap of gossip, a trivial fact, a romantic interest, a shower argument to reconcile something long past. You can spend your entire life hopping among these shiny fragments without searching for underlying meaning until tragedy, chaos, or opportunity slaps you into awareness. Sometimes this uprooting will reveal that the lustrous potential of a new idea is a mirage, or that your understanding of someone’s motives was incomplete, maybe projected.
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