• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    I’m fully aware of the irony of downplaying how complicated emotions can be ITT, but after all my years depressed or whatever mixture of things I am, I think the simpler concepts have done me the most good overall really.

    I came across these 5 words a couple years ago, and it struck me as the exact advice I needed for a long time.

    Don’t believe everything you think.

      • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nuEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        Web searched it, and the quote from his speech “This is water” is actually

        Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth.

        Edit: The speech was a good read

        • DaniNatrix@leminal.space
          5·
          1 month ago

          Thanks for the added context and providing a link for folks! It’s a decent commencement speech overall and I appreciate the attention he draws to the importance (and difficulty) of perspective in it. If anyone understood the “great and terrible truth” of the adage, it would be him.