Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.
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Goals. Yes, you can try to make your life & environment “perfectly suitable” to achieve your goal. But you become dependent on these circumstances to achieve it. Real effectiveness lies in becoming disciplined & focused enough to achieve goals regardless of the circumstances.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 20, 2019
Many people who say they support uniqueness still negatively judge & actively reject things that are different & openly mock creative displays of personalexpression. If you truly support “different thinking”, positive feedback & acceptance is far more congruent than mockery.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 20, 2019
Celebrating cruelty, intolerance, and injustice, encouraging acts of aggression, and sympathizing with those who hate & discriminate sure sound like the actions of evil people to me. [Evil: adj. profoundly immoral & wicked]
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 20, 2019
People are influenced by example. Years of bad behavior on reality TV, abusive internet comments, a focus on superficiality & fame, and a lack of ethics, logic, empathy & emotional intelligence in leadership roles have all played their part in giving people permission to imitate.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
People who play it safe as a means to be liked (or get likes) by only promoting or supporting what’s already popular instead of what’s actually potent & meaningful are the bricklayers of the status quo & a plague on progress.
Potent > popular
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
Don’t know something? Admit it
Make a mistake? Own it & don’t make it someone else’s problem
Make a mess? Clean it
Affect someone in a way you didn’t intend? Apologize
Personalresponsibility & confidence aren’t signs of weakness or insecurity. Quite the opposite actually
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
Goals. If you have to console yourself after quitting, feel the need to play up being disappointed, or feel guilty when people say “It’s ok, you tried”, the chances are good you quit too easily.
You may be disappointed in quitting, but if you truly tried, you’ll also be proud.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
Goals. Don’t quit when you’re angry. Don’t quit when you’re tired. Don’t quit when you’re upset. Don’t quit when you’re disappointed.
Only quit if you feel satisfied with your efforts & *truly* believe that moving on is in your best interest.
Otherwise, hangon & keepgoing!
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
ImagineIf more people stopped seeking a constant stream of likes & shares and instead started working for the far more significant & much more uncommon, “Thanks I really needed that today.”
Making a positive difference in 1 person’s life is far more fulfilling than 1k likes.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf teachers were regarded with the same high degree of respect (& compensated accordingly) as other higher-paying professions that often have less of a long-term impact as teachers have the potential to.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf students were allowed more flexibility to pursue knowledge & skills that truly interested them instead of being forced through a system seeking to make workforce clones.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf teachers were encouraged & able to make classes & education engaging & fun and inspired students to seek a life of learning & SelfImprovement beyond school.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf if those who reached the highest levels of office & leadership had better than the bare minimum of reading & writing skills and understood how to use a computer or how to reason with logic.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf we put as much money & effort into actually educating people as companies do in convincing consumers they need to have, do, watch & ultimately *buy* all the right things in order to be cool, sexy, appealing, healthy & happy.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf there was less emphasis on mindless & endlessly repetitive TV, processed foods, and the “necessity” of alcohol in people’s lives and more emphasis on mentalhealth, healthyliving & personalgrowth.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf instead of constantly fighting each other, we actually put money & effort into helping people who need it regardless of their social, economic or political status.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf after money no longer made any significant difference in billionaire’s lives, they put their energy towards bettering humanity instead of simply increasing their wealth. See, for example, @elonmusk
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
ImagineIf more people earned the attention they get for being a goodexample & setting high standards (See, for example, @therock) than they did for creating controversy, being hateful, or making spectacles of themselves for 15 minutes of fame.
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— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
