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⚾️ FIELD GUIDE 4: Throwing Gas
One random day I found myself the admin of an… interesting… Facebook group. Landen Kovar joined the group and we’ve been cutting up ever since. Joining…
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Skyler Cail
🍋 TREE 589: When life gives you lemons: two strategies
1. Make lemonade Flip it. What’s good here? Where is the opportunity? What do you have to be grateful for? You always have a ton of things to be…
☠️ TREE 588: What if the baddie wasn’t?
In Tom Gauld’s book Goliath, the Philistine champion is not actually a fearsome warrior. What Gauld does – beautifully – with Goliath is not unusual in…
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Jeff Gill
🤔 TREE 587: How to be smarter than almost everyone with virtually no effort
You’ve probably read or heard this ‘fact’ before: In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article summarizing research on human thoughts…
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Jeff Gill
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🍜 TREE 586: Barry Marshall drank bacterial soup to give himself an ulcer
TREEpeat 96
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Jeff Gill
🐗 TREE 585: Reality is bigger than you
Three quick thoughts for your Friday: You are nature. You aren’t something else. That’s part of the deal of being life on planet Earth. I’ve written…
🥹 TREE 584: My emotions are bigger than reality
I have big emotions. I lost my temper all the time as a little kid. I cried my way through puberty. I once cut myself off from a certain type of media…
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🤯 TREE 583: Mind unblown
I had a conversation about birds with two other people. One person said, Did you know that [certain species of bird] is the only bird that sing/poops…
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Jeff Gill
🥜 TREE 582: Reality gets hijacked really easily
A couple weeks ago I had to work an hour late – an entire hour. In my mind I was drafting an email of complaint, imagining Real Talk with my boss…
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