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Your Emotions Are Quietly Coding Your Life

I’ve started to see emotions the way I see software. They run in the background, they write instructions, and they update the system whether I approve or not. Even when I tell myself I’m “fine,” the amygdala — the tiny alarm tucked deep in the limbic system — is still firing signals that the hippocampus stores as meaning. This is why a single moment of embarrassment from ten years ago can still make my stomach tighten today. The body remembers even when the mind is busy pretending. The mistake I made for years was believing that if a feeling …

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The Courage to Sit with Yourself

Not every breakthrough looks like a summit. Sometimes it’s just staying still. Silence doesn’t always feel calm. Sometimes it presses in. The kind of silence that arrives when plans fall through, when your phone runs out of battery, when the day ends too early and you're not ready to face yourself. No screens. No background noise. Just you. We aren’t taught how to handle that kind of stillness. We’re trained to chase momentum, to measure meaning in milestones. Ordinary moments get treated like filler—as if life is a waiting room and …

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Don’t let your emotions ruin your day

Mastering your emotions is the ultimate superpower. It's really hard to stop yourself from feeling a certain way in any given moment. We have all experienced that sinking feeling in the stomach, when we overreact to certain impulses. We do feel bad in the moment but our feelings intensify once we fathom the aftermath of how we reacted. This is accompanied by a sense of guilt and shame. Even when we know that it was someone else's wrongdoing, we feel terrible in reciprocating the behaviour. These emotions are shit hard to brush off. And …

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