🦄 Startups & VC 1d ago · Lachlan Brown

Psychology says deep thinkers don’t realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn’t depression — it’s that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave

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Psychology says deep thinkers don’t realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn’t depression — it’s that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave
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Honestly, I noticed it first in a friend of mine. We were at a pub in Brighton a few years back, and he was telling me about his daughter’s birthday party — the cake, the mess, the small disaster with the balloons — and halfway through the story he said, almost as a throwaway, “I don’t know if I was actually there for any of it.” He wasn’t being dramatic. He meant it literally. He’d watched the whole day from a half-step behind himself, like a guy filming a do

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