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What is culture?
It’s a shared symbolic landscape that we use to construct our reality.
Culture shapes how we see the world.
“Tight” cultures develop in places where threats like invasions & diseases prompted development of discipline & social conformity. “Loose” cultures develop in places spared from such stressors, resulting in individualism & creativity but also civic uncoordination & recklessness.

“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning. For what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will by evening have become a lie.” -Carl Jung
“All growth is costly, it involves leaving behind an old way of being in the world.” -Keegan
It’s a process of disembedding from one mindset, and reembedding in another.

“I may never live in New York again, but I’ll never be able to completely live anywhere else. First I inhabited New York, and forever after, it inhabits me.”

“It is just another beautiful day, and there is usually something fun to do”