Find time and people to be authentic with

Steve Magness Tweet from this thread: "Here are my 10 lessons on living, handling discomfort & loss, and improving our physical & mental health"

Find time & people to be authentic with.

Most of us live on the surface. We present an acceptable piece of ourselves to the world.

But we also need to have people you can go deep with. To have conversations without judgment, to struggle with, to find genuine connection.

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From an old journal entry: Making food that others appreciate is important to me.  Having a menu that others appreciate is important... not just having the same thing all the time.  With wife #1, I never got that.  Mostly, she was disengaged, eating what, when she wanted, leaving me the planning and making of food and menu.  There was never appreciation, except in the very rare instances.

I never trusted her in the very rare event that she did say something -- often theatrically - often for the benefit of kids to try to encourage them to eat.  

Fake enthusiasm.

Emerson talked about enthusiasm being the most important ingredient.  Fake enthusiasm corrodes though.