T.K. Coleman
@TK_Coleman
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Catholic first. Co-host @theminimalists . Author of #EmotionalClutter . Student of #TheHolyRosary
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Looting is wrong
AND
Blaming the wrong people for looting is wrong
AND
Using the wrongness of looting to drown out discussions about what preceded the looting is wrong
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Reducing discussions about race & riots to the same old "left vs right" talking points is wrong.
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People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can.
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Education isn’t about making your family and friends proud for a single fleeting moment called “graduation day.” It’s about achieving a level of self-knowledge and practical mastery that leads to a lifelong sense of purpose and pride.
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He who controls the schools, rules.
No master teaches his slaves in the ways of freedom.
The path to liberty is paved by our determination to take back the power to educate our own.
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I don't think we're more divided.
I think our illusion of peace is being disrupted.
Sometimes it feels like people are starting to fall apart when they're really just becoming more honest and vocal about the things they've felt for a very long time.
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The real battle isn't Left versus Right.
It's Freedom versus Force.
It's Creativity versus Coercion.
It's Voluntaryism versus Violence.
"Remember who the real enemy is."
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Remember this for 2021:
Every moment doesn't need to be epic.
Extraordinary results are the cumulative effect of ordinary discipline exercised on ordinary days.
Keep your eyes on the prize, but just remember that life doesn't always need to feel like you're winning an award.
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If the Book of Daniel were to occur today, people would say "Well, he deserved to be thrown in the lion's den because he knowingly broke the law" while the motives of those who lobbied for those laws would largely go unquestioned.
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If it takes you 52 weeks to read a book that changes your life, you still win the prize.
The prize for learning isn't the pride of saying "I read that book in a week."
The real prize is the joy and freedom of knowing you will never be the same because of what you learned.
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Don't let social media trick you into thinking you need to become a journalist or commentator to change the world.
Local relationships are still real.
Most of the difficult and important work lies in that realm.
And most of it won't be reported on.
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Education isn’t about making your parents proud during a single fleeting moment called “graduation day.”
It’s about achieving a level of self-knowledge and practical mastery that leads to a lifelong sense of purpose and pride.
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We don't react to what people are actually saying.
We react to the political party we think they're representing when they say it.
We don't begin with "Is it true or false?"
We begin with "Is it liberal or conservative?"
And they wonder why our conversations aren't advancing.
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The question is not "Who likes you?"
The question is "Who's committed to respecting your individual rights even when they don't like you?"
Liking you doesn't always translate to respecting you.
And even if it did, no one is going to like you all the time.
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After watching
#LESSISNOW
, I'm now looking forward to seeing
@JFM
and
@RyanNicodemus
co-starring as agents in a new Matrix trilogy directed by
@mattdavella
.
Who's with me?
Seriously though...a job well done, guys.
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Don’t miss the point of education by equating it w/ formal institutions & standardized practices. If your studies aren't helping you understand what you want & how to create it, it's a timesuck. No matter how special society makes you feel for doing it that way, it's a timesuck.
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Harness your creative 🔥
And light up the world with ideas and innovation.
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Serving fast food w/ a good attitude because you need the money to pay bills is just as virtuous, noble, & praiseworthy as going on a mission trip to help the poor. Good deeds aren't just measured by who you help, but how you help & why you help. All value-creators are saints.
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My main goal for 2022 is to orient my life around prayer, to make communion with God the sun around which all aspects of my life revolve.
Practically speaking, I'm saying a daily Rosary & a Novena each month.
Feel free to check in with me at anytime to see how it's going.
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T.K. Coleman has marked himself safe from the illusion that politicians are a source of salvation.
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Here are 30 podcasts to help you kick off your year w/ fresh perspectives on how to live fully & freely.
Featuring
@TheMinimalists
,
@ThomasEWoods
,
@feeonline
,
@JordanHarbinger
,
@mattdavella
,
@SchoolSucksShow
,
@johnleedumas
& more.
H/T
@DiscoverPraxis
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Before you quit your day job, stop despising yourself for having one.
And while you're busy pursuing your dream job, don't lose your appreciation for all the less glamorous occupations that make our dreams possible.
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While you're busy being good to people, don't forget that you are one of the people you need to be good to.
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You can’t demand respect and beg for approval at the same time.
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Focus less on political debates.
Focus more on your own personal development.
Stop putting your fate in the hands of politicians.
Rely on yourself and collaborate with people who actually have skin in the game when it comes to the consequences of your choices.
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The best way to manipulate people isn't by giving them some bad information, but by controlling their definition of what it means to "be informed."
Once people have a bad concept of what it means to be informed, they'll spend their lives feeding bad information to themselves.
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Be sure to practice spiritual distancing too.
Don't allow your heart and mind to be used as transmitters of toxic energy.
Spread creative thoughts, not cancerous thoughts.
Your inner health makes as much of a difference to others as your outer health.
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Don't let anyone hold you hostage to a past you've outgrown.
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Before you respond to it:
Take a deep breathe.
Have a glass of water.
Go for a walk.
Reach out to someone you appreciate and show your support.
Then ask yourself "Do I still care about this?"
Everything seems important when you're in reactive-mode.
Stay out of that mode.
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Dear black folks, the talking heads on the left & right are not talking to us.
They're talking to each other.
They're playing a rhetorical game of "YOU'RE the REAL racist."
Avoid their trap.
Let's build up our own communities w/ those who signal through work, not rhetoric.
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BitcoinSV is leading the paradigm shift from "number go up" to "network go up."
The game isn't about getting a hamburger stand to accept a token.
It's about redefining the context for value-transfer altogether.
BSV isn't going to the moon. It's reinventing the planet.
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People be like "I hate when people who exercise and eat healthy get all preachy about how other people should do the same. You do you. Let me do me."
Same people: "Get out and vote! It's your moral duty! If you don't vote, you're part of the problem!"
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People will tell you to do what's conventional, but they'll give their respect to the ones who push the boundaries.
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Don't know what you want to do after finishing HS? There ARE options besides rushing straight into college: Do a gap year program. Do an apprenticeship. Work/travel for a year, Do whatever you want, but don't buy the lie that college is the only environment for self-discovery.
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100 years from now, the people who misunderstand you will be dead.
The same will be true of your impact on society if you spend more time paying attention to the peanut gallery than on doing the work you're called to do.
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In
#BSV
, "regulation-friendly" ≠ "Let's never create anything until there's an explicitly written policy for every possible use of the blockchain."
It = "Let's lead the way in educating lawmakers and let's work hard to not give them a bunch of easy excuses to kill our efforts.
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Don't demonize your anger.
Divinize your anger.
Let your anger transform you into an agent of change.
@bj116
on dealing with anger Part II
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I refuse to be intimidated by anything that's happening in this world.
Even if the world crushes me under its feet, I'll still never join the chorus of hopelessness & fear.
If I go out, I'll go out fighting for freedom until the very end.
Determined optimism is my only path.
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Faith doesn't say "The bad things are fine."
Faith says "The bad things are not final."
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The concept of “the common good” does not refer to some unquestionably benevolent policy.
Ideas about the common good can always be debated.
When someone says “you need to focus on the common good,” that really means “focus on MY beliefs about what constitutes the common good.”
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If you never develop the guts to say "this isn't for me," you'll spend the rest of your life nervously jumping when other people tell you to jump.
Have the faith to walk away from the things that are not a match to your purpose, your principles, and your priorities.
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To be a great leader, you have to love people’s freedom more than you love being their hero.
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I will continue to show up for my dreams, my potential, my family, my friends, and my community.
The real election is happening every day.
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This is my letter of appreciation to mainstream media that I read out loud every year.
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It’s not about how much you have.
It’s about how much you’ve decided is enough.
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Don't be fooled by people who make fun of the things you're interested in.
One of the oldest tricks for distracting people from living more freely and fully is to make them feel silly about the things that inspire them.
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If all your options are binary, then your thinking has been programmed.
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I think most debates would be better off if the participants spent 90% of their time clarifying terms, making distinctions, and asking their opponent “Have I provided an accurate summary of what your position actually believes?”
How can you debate what you can’t even define?
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Excited to announce that I’ll be joining
@RyanNicodemus
and
@JFM
as the new co-host for
@TheMinimalists
The new era begins this Monday with an all new episode.
#theminimalists
#lessisnow
#newadventures
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One of the greatest tricks the devil ever played was to convince the world that work was his idea.
Work is a gift of Creation, not a product of The Fall.
It’s a blessing, not a curse.
It's freedom, not slavery.
And it awaits our willingness to redeem it.
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In this week's episode of
@TheMinimalists
, we speak with hospice physician Zach Bush, MD about accepting dying, death, and the possibility of life after death:
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My brother
@bj116
once said "Never let other people get you out of character."
I think about this one every week.
Stay grounded in your principles.
Stay anchored in your faith.
Never compromise your self-respect and self-authenticity just to prove a point.
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Facts are cold and hard, but our delivery of them doesn’t have to possess the same quality.
Facts can be delivered with compassion, mercy, humor, creativity, encouragement, etc.
The fact that it’s a fact doesn’t mean we have to convey it in the least pleasant manner possible.
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All education is self-education.
School or no school, you only learn what you decide to learn.
Personal and professional growth is a choice.
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I love that
@kobebryant
's last several tweets were shout outs to other people's projects, accomplishments, and milestones.
#BlackMamba
is a legend.
I can't count the # of late nights I've motivated myself through hard times by watching his highlight reels.
Rest in peace!
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The inability to be enthusiastic about other people's success is poison to the soul.
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Four keys to learning:
1. Start where you are, not where you think you're supposed to be.
2. Ask as many questions as you need.
3. Go at your own pace.
4. Don't compare yourself to others. The goal is to be a smarter version of yourself, not the smartest person in the room.
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Wherever you’re going, it helps to remember that you can’t take everyone with you.
Some people don’t want to go.
Some people aren’t able to go.
Some people don’t need to go.
It’s possible to appreciate the people in your past without demanding that they all follow your path.
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The goal isn't to avoid failure.
The goal is to avoid the regret of ignoring the call of your own soul.
Don't play it safe.
Play it honest.
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Every single day, the world will present you with multiple opportunities to be outraged about someone or something.
In order to realize your potential, you will need to decline most of those opportunities.
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The philosophy of human powerlessness is a scam.
It’s designed by people who have a vested interest in perpetuating the illusion that you are helpless without their continued micromanagement of your life.
A true leader will usher you towards your power, not away from it.
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Before you check to see if liberals are preaching it or if conservatives are preaching it...
Check to see if it's true.
And if it's true, hold on to it.
Never lose sight of a good idea merely because "the people over there" agree or disagree.
Be loyal to truth, not teams.
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If you want do something for a living, find a way to live what you do *before* your circumstances give you permission. Becoming a pro is the effect, not the cause of showing up unconditionally.
If you want to get paid to do something, you have to do it like you’re getting paid to do it before you get paid. —
@TK_Coleman
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You won’t get stuck by starting small.
You’ll get stuck by refusing to start at all.
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Teaching isn't something you do after you're finished being a student.
Teaching is something you do as an expression of being a student.
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Gotta love the way people disagree these days.
We can no longer say "I disagree and here's why."
We also have to assume the absolute worst of intentions.
If I think you're mistaken, I also have to accuse you of being evil.
I truly hope our culture can grow out of this.
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I can only imagine what people would give themselves permission to believe if they weren't so worried about the social cost of disagreeing with the internet thought-police.
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@JoshuaTCharles
Thanks for taking the time to document and clarify things like this.
While some people will never say “I was incorrect,” you’re preserving the faith for many others who read these posts without commenting.
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Here are my three axioms of learning:
1. Everything is easy once you know how to do it.
2. Everything is easy to know as long as you're willing to go slow.
3. The first skill to learn is how to stop condemning yourself for not already knowing.
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A moment from my interview with Mark Bush on blackness and overcoming prejudice.
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I'm totally okay with a world where everyone has a podcast or blog. Everyone would be learning a ton of transferable skills even if no one payed attention. We make too big of a deal out of having an audience, not a big enough deal out of how the creative process transforms us.
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You can be average at 3-4 different things while still being the best in the world at combining those things in an interesting and unique way.
Excellence isn't about excelling at everything.
It's about finding a valuable point of intersection that's YOUR thing.
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The world isn't doing you a favor by letting you exist.
You don't need to avert your gaze when you cross the path of others.
You don't need to bow your head and whisper softly when you speak.
Be who you are without apology.
You belong here.
Act like it.
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The trailer for the upcoming
@netflix
@TheMinimalists
documentary has been released today.
Watch here:
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Don't waste your life mastering games that you hate playing.
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Self-directed education is the best form of "self-help" I know.
It's hard to feel hopeless and curious at the same time.
If you want to live fully, learn feverishly.
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Doing what’s healthiest or best for you will often require you to opt out of very highly respected social games and cultural norms in ways that can make you seem arrogant, lazy, careless, or out of touch with reality.
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Narratives are powerful.
A well-crafted narrative will have you despising people you never met, hating books you never read, rejecting ideas you never analyzed, and loving things that never earned your loyalty.
We're more led by stories ABOUT facts than by facts themselves.
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I'm still good, y'all 🙏
T.K. Coleman has marked himself safe from the illusion that politicians are a source of salvation.
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Criticism is the price you pay for having a personality.
The alternative is an exhausting life of self-censorship and self-neutralization.
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Our future depends on raising a generation of kids who love freedom.
Our future depends on raising a generation of kids who love America.
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It's better to lose followers than to lose your soul.
Don't let your "brand" become a box that keeps you stuck on topics and talking points that no longer reflect where life is taking you.
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You may not need to learn how to program, but you definitely need to learn how to not be programmed.
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A budget is not a bully that's there to steal your joy.
It's a bodyguard that's there to protect your dreams.
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"Release yourself from the burden of trying to look and feel inspired all the time."
A moment from my conversation with
@TheMinimalists
on the pros and cons of positive thinking.
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A friend shared this photo with me today.
I was recently featured in
@EpochTimes
about my work with
@feeonline
+
@DiscoverPraxis
and the philosophy of freedom that drives me.
If you'd like to read the article,, you can check out the full story here:
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Curiosity is my favorite antidote for jealousy.
If I'm tempted to hate someone because they have better results than me, I make myself a student of their success.
Within a week, my jealousy is transformed into gratitude for how much smarter they've helped me become.
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Homeschooling is not a contemporary alternative.
It’s the original God-given model for how children learn to make decisions, develop useful skills, and navigate the challenges of life.
Historically speaking, age-segregated compulsory schooling is the new thing.
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Never confuse fuel with fire.
For every fire, there's someone who pours fuel on it for political gain.
But those who pour the fuel are not those who feel the fire.
Don't let your anger at fuel feeders negate meaningful discussions with those living in the midst of real fire.
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Blessed is the individual who possesses the sense of dignity, self-respect, and courage to walk away.
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We need to re-brand our concept of being wrong.
When we discover that we're wrong about something, that discovery leads to more possibilities.
To be on the side of facts is to be on the side of freedom.
We should never be ashamed when new information enlightens our thinking.
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What if there are people who will never fulfill their potential unless you fulfill your own?
What if there are people who will never discover their purpose unless you face your fears and follow your dreams?
What if something big is at stake for every soft choice you make?
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