Michele Pasin / Quotes

Diventare committente di se stessi

Quando ha deciso di buttarsi in quest’impresa sapeva che caricarsi sulle spalle tutto l’onere del progetto sarebbe stato un impegno ben diverso dal suo abituale, nobilissimo lavoro da architetto. Del resto era stata proprio la dimensione della sfida ad attrarlo, il rischio implicito, l’idea di dover puntare tutto sulle proprie capacità, diventare per una volta committente di se stesso. Però certo non aveva anticipato la moltiplicazione infinita di problemi, e l’angoscia di trovarsi a fronteggiarli da solo, senza altre risorse che quelle della sua competenza professionale fuori dal comune.

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#ambition #risk #work #anxiety

Poverty had become psychological

By the middle of the decade so many young people were dropping out that it looked as though “youth” was becoming a social class in its own right, one about to…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #counterculture #capitalism #work #anxiety #revolution

I rimpianti più frequenti

Per inciso, tra le persone che ho intervistato, le risposte più frequenti erano: «Vorrei aver avuto meno preoccupazioni da giovane», «Vorrei aver fatto quello…

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni) #regret #life #marriage #anxiety

Information anxiety

People still have anxiety about how to assimilate a body of knowledge that is expanding by the nanosecond…. Information anxiety is produced by the…

Information Anxiety 2 #anxiety #people #knowledge

LSD as a breakthrough for psychotherapy

Depression and anxiety were particularly responsive to treatment, and by the mid-1950s, lysergic acid was beginning to look like a major breakthrough in the…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychotherapy #psychedelics #anxiety #addiction

Object permanence and the dropped spoon

Piaget believed that in the beginning, babies’ reactions to the world are purely reflexive (without thought). He said that intelligence began when the…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #babies #child-development #objects #anxiety

Recalling an LSD trip fifteen years later

I began to wonder if I would ever return to reality, but the voice in the back of my head reminded me again, “LSD is a drug… it will wear off.” The incredible…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #hallucinations #memory #anxiety