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Needing your predictable oscillations to be within bounds

4 tweets · June 2022 · 66 likes · 7 retweets · read on Twitter

People need, in relationships or communities, to have a sense that their ordinary predictable variations/oscillations that are part of their learning process are comfortably within bounds. That swings in mood and capability that surprise nobody won't put things into jeopardy.

If "here we go with this again" triggers "should we end this?", that's a sign that people are in some sense in too far and/or in denial about what to expect. Promising themselves it'll be different this/next time when they have no ground to expect that.

closely related video I recorded last night, about honoring your own learning process youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…

related principle:

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

if something feels off, slow the fuck down if people tell you not to slow the fuck down, tell them to shut the fuck up if they won't shut the fuck up, get the fuck out