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Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?

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Re: Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?

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If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my g…

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Re: Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?

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These are more mundane than the average.

I heard the phrase "Nutrient harvesting" on a no-dig gardening channel. Helped me reframe the mundane task of weeding in my garden. I'm now instead gathering nutrients for my plants as either local mulching or composting and it became a much more meaningful task.

"The way your childhood shaped you is an adaptive reaction to your environment that searched for the optimal solution to survive."

This is a reframing for bad or unwanted patterns you learned through childhood and still doing. Helped me forgive myself and accept the unwanted behaviours as something that was once necessary to stay afloat.

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