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Stephanie Simmons's avatar

Loved this read

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Matt Kramer's avatar

thank you queen! <3

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Harrison's avatar

Great newsletter, Matt. A few of my favorite quotes:

“The default culture claims that “being informed” is virtuous yet decouples the virtue from the taking of action, which is actually just narcissism”

“It’s only when the end of the train passes your window that you realize you were never moving at all” - this is how I feel after I’ve spent 30 minutes on X trying to figure out what way the stock market’s going to go, or what to think about x/y/z news event. I’ve stayed in one place, meanwhile the day has progressed.

It reminds me of the “decathlon” scene from Billy Madison where the moderator states “everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to your answer”. Editing the statement considering what you’ve written, it’s more like “I’ve let in energy that doesn’t serve me or my greater purpose”

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Matt Kramer's avatar

Thank you Harrison! That scene in Billy Madison makes me laugh every time. Legendary.

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Kyra's avatar

Matt, I loved this for so many reasons. I’m going to have to come back to this one because there’s so many good tidbits in it, like when you mentioned the way you redirect your attention when you notice it get hijacked to something as simple as “a human in my presence and how cool it is that they are similar or different from me.”

In my day to day as a mom, it’s easy for boredom to creep in sometimes (or even just random negative, superego, judgmental thoughts), and I love this idea of just noticing it, allowing it, and then doing something as simple as just noticing the little humans in front of me, the little curls in their hair, their feet. That’s like a prayer, it’s beautiful.

Everyday, each of my girls requires a separate whole long process to be put down for naps in which I’m “forced” to sit in a dark room with no devices and white noise. And every time it’s so hard for me to submit to this, despite the fact that most of my best insights come to me during this time. It’s truly incredible how resistant we are to allowing space in our brain. Although it makes sense in this culture where noise is the default.

I so appreciate you putting all these things into words during a time where I’m aware of these things and struggling to overcome them, thank you for this beautiful reminder 🙏🏻

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Matt Kramer's avatar

Well. This was a truly delightful comment to read, Kyra! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and reactions, I'm moved by your beautiful insights and glad the piece resonated <3

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