The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

your exhaustion is your problem

consider guarding your food

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Jim Dalling
Aug 09, 2023
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We’re a bunch of animals.

We’re opportunistic scavengers, just like our dogs.

Yeah

We’re dogs with thumbs and bigger brains and better reasoning and smaller hearts and more poor loyalty.

We are territorial about our ‘food’ - where food is our money, our time, our attention and our energy. We tend to protect our dish.

Dogs who can’t or don’t, starve.

How are you starved?

How do you starve yourself?

Where could you show your teeth a bit more frequently, maybe growl a bit?

What ‘food’ have you not protected with enough rigor and vigour?

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