Anyone can say "You look good."

..but not many people say "I really like how your blue shirt complements with the gray sweater you have. It adds a lot of style and kick to your pep."

Another person might think the blue shirt is ugly, but if you sincerely think it's nice, then point it out!

People may not remember one "Good morning" but people will notice if you do it every morning.

People remember how you resolve conflicts, not exactly the conflict themselves (unless the conflict is all there is to it, e.g. no resolution.)

The key to maintaining relationships:

Negative experience require resolution, not avoidance.

Positive experiences require consistency and frequency

If denying their reality is a roadblock, maybe try and help find the logic in their reality.

Instead of "Don't think that way, it simply isn't true."

The more powerful response would be "Despite that, you xyz." IF you can figure out how to form a response of such significance.

Unfortunately, my intuition is pretty stunted, and I understand things on a very logical level. I need metrics, scientific axioms for me to make sense of the world, but whenever it kicks in, it always feels so good to just "feel".

Your brain is an amazing part of your body, but also trust your heart, and your gut, and if you can somehow tap into the power of intuition, you can *probably* do great things. I just have a *feeling*. Hahahaha!

In arts, I find it's helpful to think of things as a tactile sensation. When I draw a wound I want myself to look at it and feel "hurt". When I draw fur, I want it to make me feel "soft". It's again a "I want that kind of feeling" that humans are really good at!

When you think of "divide" we all have our own rationale of how to explain what it means, and that's the "feeling" part and the "intuition" kicking in. Because we have a "feeling" attached to "divide" we come to understand it more than we did with the definition of it!

In mathematics, something so rigid as mathematics has a lot of intuition too! Certain theorems that apply to certain concepts can be divided into "feelings". Like if we see this applied to limits, then we can probably apply this to some other part of a larger theorem involving it!

In design thinking I've been told to question why, then how then what. When you think of why, you abstract the goal as a "feeling". In game design, you think "why am I making the game" to make a really great one. When you think of the UX of what you want the gamers to feel, you make a good game!

In language, we think of 行 and we know the lexical meaning. In Chinese it means to "go" or to "pass". However if you see the word as just "a feeling" you'll find that you'll understand the language better. For instance, 行 can mean "sure" because when you think about it, if you say "go" it means yes!

A lot of the cornerstone of learning and disciplines especially in the crafts rely on this "abstraction" feeling that we have towards many things. It's the cornerstone to design thinking, art, architecture, sometimes even mathematics! Something so structure as maths has "intuition"?

I think the key to that has always been something that we humans are innately usually very good at!

Have you ever went "Hey, that seems like a really Tom thing to do" or go "こんな感じです。はい、その感じです".

Do you know what all this is called? I think it's called intuition.

The more I try to understand this the more absurd Generative AI seems to me. It is "art" that exists, but was never exactly "created" and given meaning, so to speak.

Maybe I'll give the book a read and see if I like it.

I suppose it made me appreciate the idea of art more — that I have these hands and this mind that I use to forge a sort of essence that follows the prelude of existence, an art that I made, that I gave meaning to, my meaning.

In the end he listens to a song that he likes, absorbing the melody, he realises that the melody is an act of pure creation, its existence justified by meaning created.

He would in the end decide to make a novel, to justify his existence, an act of pure creation, his own meaning to absurdity.

What I understood, which may not be necessarily the main takeaway from Jean-Paul Sartre, was a man who found that existence was absurd, but because it is absurd, we find our own sense of meaning in absurdity.

Because nothing has an inherent meaning, that means anything "can" have meaning.