• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
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    8 hours ago

    You aren’t getting any more teeth, so take care of the ones you have.

    Stress produces cortisol. Cortisol reduces your empathy.

    Like Casandra, knowing the future won’t make you happy or get people to listen to you.

    Intelligence is setting your medication to automatically arrive when you run out. Wisdom is having it arrive a week before you run out.

    • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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      12 minutes ago

      Like Casandra, knowing the future won’t make you happy or get people to listen to you.

      I wish you’d told me this years ago. I still struggle with needing to be proven right. It’s exhausting.

    • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day
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      4 hours ago

      Cortisol reduces empathy

      That makes a lot of sense

      People who don’t take care of themselves can’t take care of others.