I worked in a nursing home for 5 years. even if I have to take the stairs or park in the back of the lot, I will always appreciate being able to walk for as long as I still can.
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if you want to function better socially, you develop social skills.
if you want to handle stress more effectively, you develop coping skills.
if you want to manage anger, you develop anger management skills.
if you want to increase your self esteem, you have to develop your SELF ESTEEM SKILLS.
we have to start thinking of self esteem as a skill, not as some esoteric emotional wonderland.
self esteem is the same as every other skill you possess, from coping to cooking, from anger to acting.
it is not a thing that happens because you compliment yourself once.
you have to work at it.
you might not go as fast as you'd like.
your progress will not be linear.
there will be setbacks.
but if you're invested in it, you keep going.
having self esteem takes deliberate and focused effort...just like every other skill you possess.
you will learn from your mistakes...just like every other skill you possess.
the more you do it, the better you get...just like every other skill you possess.
because having healthy self esteem is a skill.
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good mental health starts with our ability to see value in places where other people aren't even looking. now through the end of the year, i'm challenging myself to find something new to appreciate every week.
artificial intelligence will take over because we don't appreciate the value of our own species.
or what we do.
or how hard it is to do what we do.
we're more dazzled when a computer, designed and programmed by humans, does the same stuff we do.
and if we don't appreciate what we do, we can't be surprised when computers take over what were previously human activities.
there is a fast growing field of music on YouTube that is entirely AI generated.
not gonna lie. some of it sounds good.
most of the time, it's presented as an obscure artist lost to time.
check out this undiscovered nugget!!!
and as soon as i learn that it's AI generated, i close it immediately.
i'm not interested in listening to music a computer created with algorithms programmed for optimal audio enjoyment.
there is no soul in that. no humanity.
how can I connect to a song when the songwriter is a computer???
I appreciate how hard it is to write lyrics that connect with listeners.
I appreciate what it takes for a musician to transform the sound they hear in their head to a sound we can hear in ours.
there is power in creating music.
there is power in listening to music.
there is power in appreciating the artist and their process.
I don't want musician (or any artist of any medium) to go the way of buggy whip makers and switchboard operators.
appreciating each other is no longer central to good mental health.
appreciating each other feels like an act of self preservation.
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