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Is that humans already surrender so much agency. Indeed, if someone else will decide for us, we often will let them.

So what happens when AI has found the perfect partner match. Or the perfect sushi restaurant. Or the perfect car to fit your personality.

We might celebrate.

But we also lose a part of what makes us human.

Which is agency.

We don’t always make the right choice but there’s power in making it.

Is that people will always believe what they want to believe.

That’s what makes it faith. Not a science.

You can pick and choose. For better or worse.

The thing about having advantage, position of authority, having responsibility over others…

We are defined by how we use these things.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Everyone is born creative. Can take chances. Is brave.

We just don’t stay that way.

We lose it day by day as we get older.

And then one day we are expected to take that creativity and become something else.

At best, an artist. At worst, a career.

Most emotions are overrated.

Meaning how you feel has nothing to do with what you do.

A life fulfilled is done through your actions.

Many bands will choose to opt out of the encore nowadays. The idea is to leave it all on stage. But really, its an excuse for bands are left in a no win situation. If they don’t do it, fans will leave feeling cheated. Having something taken away is indeed powerful.

The encore should be for the fans that brought it that night for a live show and for the band who gave it. And if one party wasn’t deserving then an encore should not happen.

I’m not sure when it became the standard to automatically expect an encore. But the the surprise is gone. And so is the chance to delight. It was a gift and expecting a gift always kills the gift itself.

By expecting it, we have ruined it. I do miss the chants of, “ONE MORE SONG!” Where a band couldn’t leave without the crowds permission.

So much love allows us to overlook all the flaws.

So much hate only notices the imperfections.

That seems applicable if you want to recalibrate your expectations of people.

It is thought of as intense feeling or love. But passion actually means to suffer.

When someone is full of passion, they are suffering.

We act, create, disguise…all in an effort to avoid something.

That’s the thing about our brains; we tend to move toward the things we find pleasurable and run away from the things we can’t stand.

Humans, on the other hand, keep score. We give nature a name. We act as if this entity will treat us the same way as we treat her.

Understanding that humans’ narrative doesn’t extend to others is essential.

A bee doesn’t get up and wonder if it should be a bee today. It’s just a bee and does what bees do. Humans are the complete opposite and unique in this manner.

We have choices of who we want to be, how we act, what we do, which stories to tell…