D A D I R R I

Don't waste energy proving your point to those who refuse to listen, they dismiss facts, ignore logic, and shut down dialogue. Their goal is not understanding but control. Save your words, protect your clarity, and invest in people who value real conversation. Arguing with closed minds is self harm. If they're not genuinely trying to understand, I'm out. Some people debate to win, argue to be right, not to learn. I protect my energy now.  Only engage with people actually able to understand that life always has multiple perspectives. Only engage with those able to listen. Only engage with those who do not centre everything back to them. Everyone else gets minimal time, no engagement or no response. Protect your peace above all else and if need be, silence.  

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From the  Marginalian creator  and bestselling author Maria Popova,  a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life.  What is life? What is death? What makes a body a person?  What makes a planet a world? In  Traversal , Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive― our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems― through the intertwined lives, loves,  and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Humphry Davy, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Woven throughout their stories are other threads― the first global scientific collaboration, the Irish potato famine, the decoding of the insulin molecule,  the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue― to...