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That just makes me wonder if she's had a stake in the design of her own music videos now!
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That's a very simple yet effective question.
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Exactly! I have no doubt that it stings to receive it. However, if we can't adopt a mindset that allows us to capture the advice being present, our work is stunted. And this isn't even considering how it affects one's image and audience.
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Gee, I would've thought that anyone receiving honest critique on one's public work would engender some type of reflection, but instead, everyone acts as though we're above any kind of correction or reproach.
News flash! Having an audience implies the reception of a range of opinions; good and bad.
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Still baffled by this, and how I hadn't noticed when I first bought it.
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Definitely being so chill about it!
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He's been working for Putin to kill Americans.
www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-va...
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My period finally came, so I'm exhausted too
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I'm glad astrology has helped you process your grief. These aren't easy times in the slightest. 🫂
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life's somewhat more unpleasant shifts, which may drift us into jobs that keep us alive, but don't nurture our soul. They won't necessarily fit what our "calling" looks like in our mind. It can, on instance, but not everyone's life is been so privileged.
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I'd be such a teacher's pet omg
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It's so frustrating and disheartening to read the comments that continue to misunderstand his arguments. I dont think they're above criticism in the slightest, but there's core messages that aren't being processed.
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and there's no denying that rest is productive. However, reading does not exist solely to coddle us in comfort but to incite challenges that lead to growth.
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
– César A. Cruz
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educate ourselves or be attuned to our environment. It reveals who has the privilege to opt out of reading diversely because they don't need it.
Marginalized communities do not have the luxury to choose to escape through shallow, vapid books. Yes, reading can be comforting and entertaining,
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How privileged is it to seek endless refuge from the horrors around us by choosing "brain-off" books? To oversaturate yourself to one or two genres, full of recycled tropes and predictable endings? To voluntarily disengage from our communities? There is a lot of privilege in choosing to not
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education for their children. There is an undeniable fact that educating yourself is a powerful, revolutionary act.
I think that the real privilege doesn't exclusively lie with those to criticize poor books and questionable quality, but those who insist on prioritizing comfort over growth.
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historically, been sheltered and denied to marginalized communities. How poor families willingly indebted themselves so that their kids could learn how to read and write so they could escape the cycle. Even today, many first-generation immigrants in the USA sacrifice everything to ensure a college
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The quality and verity of what we consume will naturally inform the quality and verity of our own work, our worldview, and how we interact with the larger world around us.
We're also blissfully unaware (a pernicious consequence of not reading challenging, enriching books) of how reading had,