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← If you do not accept your own feelings you cannot connect with other people's, and may shut them down.
17 connected korrents · 13 moments from 2 Nov 2004 to 7 Oct 2026.
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Read this korrent: If you do not accept your own feelings you cannot connect with other people's, and may shut them down.
If you do not accept your own feelings you cannot connect with other people's, and may shut them down.
Last stated 6 years ago
21 Apr 2020
EP
Esther Perel — holds since 2020-04-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others. — tap to centre the map on it
Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
18 Sept 2026
SC
Sasha Chapin — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Shunning people with controversial views is a self-defeating strategy. — tap to centre the map on it
Shunning people with controversial views is a self-defeating strategy.
Last stated 5 days ago
7 Oct 2026
NS
Noah Smith — holds since 2026-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Empathy for your own group is worth little if it leads you to devalue other groups; you can care about people's feelings without sharing them. — tap to centre the map on it
Empathy for your own group is worth little if it leads you to devalue other groups; you can care about people's feelings without sharing them.
Last stated 7 years ago
1 Dec 2019
AG
Adam Grant — holds since 2019-12-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down. — tap to centre the map on it
Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down.
Last stated 22 years ago
2 Nov 2004
LG
Leslie Greenberg — holds since 2004-11-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: What pains a person is not the external thing but their own judgement about it, which they have the power to wipe out — tap to centre the map on it
What pains a person is not the external thing but their own judgement about it, which they have the power to wipe out
MA
Marcus Aurelius — holds since c. 171–175 CE — tap for who they are
Same subject: People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work. — tap to centre the map on it
People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.
Last stated 5 months ago
15 May 2026
YX
Yihui Xie — holds since 2026-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Accepting life's realities brings success and power; denying or running from them does not — tap to centre the map on it
Accepting life's realities brings success and power; denying or running from them does not
RG
Robert Greene — holds since c. 2010 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People who cannot feel the littleness of their own great things tend to overlook the greatness of little things in others — tap to centre the map on it
People who cannot feel the littleness of their own great things tend to overlook the greatness of little things in others
OK
Okakura Kakuzō — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death — tap to centre the map on it
A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death
BS
Baruch Spinoza — holds since c. 1661–1675 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A good life is forged from the very things that make it hard, since joy and pain in relationships come together. — tap to centre the map on it
A good life is forged from the very things that make it hard, since joy and pain in relationships come together.
Last stated 4 years ago
13 Jan 2023
RW
Robert Waldinger — holds since 2023-01-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none. — tap to centre the map on it
A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.
Last stated 2 years ago
16 May 2024
LS
L. M. Sacasas — holds since 2024-05-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out. — tap to centre the map on it
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Last stated 3 years ago
10 Jan 2024
CH
Cate Hall — holds since 2024-01-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them. — tap to centre the map on it
A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
AS
Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death — tap to centre the map on it
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
TH
Thomas Hobbes — holds since c. 1651 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company. — tap to centre the map on it
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Last stated 9 months ago
25 Jan 2026
JC
Jason Cohen — holds since 2026-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us. — tap to centre the map on it
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Last stated a year ago
3 Aug 2025
WM
William MacAskill — holds since 2025-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress — tap to centre the map on it
A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress
Last stated 4 years ago
4 Nov 2022
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-11-04 — tap for who they are
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