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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s don't handle hardship better than everyone else because they are stronger - they handle it better because they were never offered the alternative, and a person who was never offered the alternative develops a relationship with difficulty that people who were offered it spend their whole lives trying to build in a gym - Silicon Canals

Struggling is a norm for my generation because we never knew life could be comfortable.
Mental health
fromSubstack
9 months ago

why are we lying to young people about work?

Believing passion leads to effortless work undermines the significance of struggle and effort in achieving meaningful outcomes.
fromSFGATE
11 months ago

Rachael Ray Sparks Concern After Posting Emotional Video About Living as a 'Very, Very Poor' Young Woman in New York

I didn't want to bother my mother. I didn't want her to feel scared for me. So I would never ask for money, and I didn't have any.
NYC real estate
fromwww.aljazeera.com
11 months ago

Seventy-seven years after the Nakba, we are naming our new ruin

The Palestinians were telling the world: just three years after the catastrophe that befell on the Jewish people in Europe, a new catastrophe—very different, but no less painful—is unfolding in our homeland, Palestine.
NYC parents
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