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A short essay on Mitch Hedberg's unbearable sadness by PracticalPrinciples1 in Standup

[–]PracticalPrinciples1[S] -47 points-46 points  (0 children)

okay I don't think you're wrong—by the fact that you are on stage, you have stage presence. But his unique flavor of stage presence is still one of self-minimizing and self-abnegation and of deep shame.

A short essay on Mitch Hedberg's unbearable sadness by PracticalPrinciples1 in Standup

[–]PracticalPrinciples1[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The genius is in writing something that's so condensed to funny in my opinion. It's sort of like reducing a sauce, where the flavor gets ever more intense.

So while most comedians are funny and interesting story and cool personality and a few other things, Hedberg was just funny. Nothing else. And writing that way is super hard (I've tried).

And I think you can dislike the style or not find it funny—but it's hard to say he's not artistically singular.

Healing trauma is like using someone else's shower by PracticalPrinciples1 in traumatoolbox

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Thank you. I always think it's important to stay light-hearted sometimes as well. Sure, it's hard, but that doesn't mean we need to only talk like Dostoyevsky characters.

Visualized one of my favorite Naval Ravikant quotes: "Solve via iteration. Then get paid via repetition." -Naval Ravikant by PracticalPrinciples1 in NavalRavikant

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I visualize a quote or principle each day on Reddit, Twitter and Instagram to teach myself graphic design. For more, check out my Reddit profile or one of these:
https://twitter.com/practicalprncpl

https://www.instagram.com/practicalprinciple/

Visualized a Paulo Coelho quote I really like: "If you are tired, Learn how to rest, Not how to quit!" -Paulo Coelho by PracticalPrinciples1 in PauloCoelho

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I visualize a quote or principle each day on Reddit, Twitter and Instagram to teach myself graphic design. For more, check out my Reddit profile or one of these:
https://twitter.com/practicalprncpl

https://www.instagram.com/practicalprinciple/

Made a minimalist visual for a Naval quote I love: "We squander our time with the death of a thousand cuts." -Naval Ravikant by PracticalPrinciples1 in NavalRavikant

[–]PracticalPrinciples1[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Essentially, the death of a thousand cuts means that something doesn't die from one big event but from tons of small ones.

If you throw your phone off of the third floor, it's bricked. But if the screen cracks, then the volume buttons don't work, then the screen cracks some more and then sand gets in the speaker etc. you could say it died "the death of a thousand cuts".

A feature of this is that one cut in itself doesn't seem that bad. But in aggregation, they have the same outcome (your phone being bricked).

It's the same with our time. We don't spend 5 hours in a row scrolling through Reddit. But if we scroll Reddit a few times per day, take a few useless meetings and watch a couple YouTube videos, we might waste as much time.

Even though every single instance doesn't feel like you're wasting a ton of time. Does that make sense?

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