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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.

    But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.



  • This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:

    10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

    11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

    12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

    13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

    14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

    15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    *Ostensibly Tigris