Time to make a life for myself.
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The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. It’s such a common daily, profound, indivisible experience for most of us. Some people do manage to achieve states of divided self or anatta, no self, they’re really skilled Buddhists. But for the majority of us the self is a very compulsive experience. I happen to think it’s an illusion and certainly the neuroscience seems to support that contention.
British experimental psychologist Bruce Hood, author of The Self Illusion, on essentialism, further confirming the idea that character is fluid and there is no such thing as a fixed self. (via explore-blog)
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This is social inequity out the yang.
How is this even being considered?
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If you’re graduating from college this year, we apologize: Before being pushed off into the shaky job market, you’ll likely be forced to sit through a commencement speech filled with platitudes and vague advice, usually delivered by someone too old and famous to remember what it’s like to be young and broke. So we asked comedian Baratunde Thurston, porn actor James Deen, tech reporter Jenna Wortham, novelist Emma Straub, and Das Racist’s Victor Vazquez to tell us what 2012 graduates really need to know.
Not yet a graduate, but this is pretty solid advice
