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Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It

So true it hurts.

Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, Tupac was murdered, Jeff Mangum went crazy, David Foster Wallace hung himself, Jeff Buckley drowned, River Phoenix overdosed, Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.

Read it all. Then get off my lawn.

Re: thanks for the feedback

daring-greatly-by-brené-brown

From Brene Brown’s incredible Daring Greatly.

I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you’re occasionally getting your butt kicked as you respond, and if you’re also figuring out how to stay open to feedback it without getting pummeled with insults, I’m more likely to pay attention to your thoughts about my work.

Apparantly, she even goes so far as to carry a list in her wallet of the few people whose opinions truly matter to her. I think I might do that. It’s all part of trying to halt the shame cycle before it begins. Only true fiends make the list, the ones whose connections have been tested, stretched, and proven.

Russell Brand is not who I thought he was.

I watched this because it was posted at Found Things with a note “Russell Brand is not who I thought he was.” I had the same experience. This is really, really great.

“Fortunately, I’m privileged in that I have real friends and real people around me and we’re all equally aware of how preposterous [the public’s idea of me] is, and the way that these ideas and images are manipulated to maintain a cultural narrative to keep people spellbound and stupid.”

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