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Michael Ashcroft Profile picture
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Jan 13, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together" – Vincent Van Gogh

This is a thread of all of Vincent's paintings of sunflowers. 🌻

First series: The Paris Sunflowers

Sunflowers, study (F377), Oil on canvas, 21 x 27 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Sunflowers (F375), Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sunflowers (F376), Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Bern
Sunflowers (F452), Oil on canvas, 60 × 100 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Second Series: The Arles Sunflowers

Sunflowers (F453), first version: turquoise background
Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 60 cm
Private collection
Sunflowers (F459), second version: royal-blue background
Oil on canvas, 98 × 69 cm
Formerly private collection, Ashiya, Japan, destroyed by US air raid of World War II on 6 August 1945
Sunflowers (F456), third version: blue green background
Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Sunflowers (F454), fourth version: yellow background
Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73 cm
National Gallery, London, England
Sunflowers (F455), repetition of the 3rd version
Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States.
Sunflowers (F458), repetition of the 4th version (yellow background)
Oil on canvas, 95 × 73 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sunflowers (F457), replica of the 4th version (yellow green background)
Oil on canvas, 100 × 76 cm
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
all images and summaries taken from Wikipedia here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower…

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I just came across the idea of treating inattentive ADHD as being similar in nature to erectile dysfunction

It was a video on Instagram that I now can't find again, but the gist of it was...

yelling at yourself for not being aroused by a task doesn't help you perform
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it's not something you can make happen directly

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actually there are three

1) find ways to make the task more arousing, or arousing in a different way

2) identify any anxieties that may be present that are interfering with finding the arousing thing arousing and explore ways to turn them down
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one of the most valuable things about doing this social media thing is that you start to see how some minority of people will always insist on focusing on the negative, even within the good

at which point, life gets much easier, because you just say "oh, look, there they go!"
where before you may worry that you are not seeing the bigger picture and that things might really be bad, actually...

it becomes clear that:
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I just did an anger release thing as part of the @artofaccomp Master Class

five minutes of fully expressing anger (swearing, screaming) in a safe, small group container

it was interesting that there was a clear switch half way through from performance to 'okay this real now''
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fortunately my experiences doing similar things helped me sink right into it

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I feel like there's been a lot of "jobs are bad and you should quit" energy on the timeline lately

so here are some reasons jobs are good and what I miss about having one

1) working with smart, engaged people on shared projects, bouncing ideas around and helping each other
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knowing that the work you do is an important part of a system larger than yourself can be really satisfying and motivating
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you don't need to think about how to motivate yourself when the environment does it for you
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isn’t it incredible that houses have pipes that carry clean water in and dirty water out and all you have to do is open a tap or push a button?

and that the networks that do this are built and operated by people and they run perfectly basically all the time?
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and people built those pipes and they work
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and this all just works
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