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Hi! I saw ur tags on that healing post. what would you change about the priestesses of dibella? I always love your worldbuilding!

ok so given dibella is worshipped in many different cultures (and given that realistically there would be massive variation Within this) this has to be a huge generalization so my headcanons here are mostly for dibella worship within the nine divines religion/imperial cult (since thats the context for most of the lore on her worship) rather than All Worship Of Dibella Everywhere

main thing is.. its not Super well defined to begin with, and the sex aspects are kind of a 'hey gamer man target audience! we will describe the goddess's worship as a thing where theres TONS of sexy women who fuck and know secret erotic techniques!! no men allowed tee hee!! (i sure hope no men intrude to our hot sex chambers tee hee!!!!)' forbidden fruit sorta thing rather than being like. particularly well thought out. it also seems to be playing heavily on (possibly entirely false) concepts of 'sacred [sex work]' in aphrodite worship in ancient greece that is fairly often made into this kinda fetishized thing in media.

and i think a lot of fans try to 'fix' all this by just like downplaying the sex aspects entirely which i dont think is necessary

heres my headcanons

-her place within the nine divines pantheon is pretty nebulous, but the core facets of her worship center around beauty and pleasure. music and dance, natural beauty, and sex specifically tend to be focuses.

-music is CENTRAL to her worship. song and dance is the primary way she is prayed to. her worship spaces are almost always filled with music (bards can make a living of of playing in dibella's temples)

-sex is very significant both as part of her sphere and as a facet of rituals, but its not a 'you go to her temple and there are sexy big BOOB ladieys who want to fuck YOU' sort of thing. you are generally expected to find a sexual partner for yourself. certain cults of dibella are more sex focused, but access to these groups tend to require initiation and devotion.

-sexual instruction is a facet of certain forms of worship, mainly irt stuff like positions deemed favorable for ritual magic, or aphrodisiacs or shit like that

-i would want to develop the relation of sex work to dibellan practices, (based on similar historic gods related to sex work) but its something that literally there would be absolutely no chance of it EVER being handled well lol. but she likely has some associations with sex work in imperial society, (which if its anything like its irl historical precedents is a normalized facet of society, tho with class connotations)

-the love/affection aspects attributed to her tend to be considered more abstract and non-interpersonal love- a lover as a concept, not as a practice and not with the struggles reality entails. less abstract forms of love are considered more the territory of mara, though there is some variation or merging of the two, context depending (as in like. gods in polytheistic religions dont always have Well Defined Mutually Exclusive Spheres, especially not in the context of a state religion of a continent-spanning empire)

-class plays a huge part into how dibella is worshipped. worship among the imperial upper classes/nobility tends to have a decidedly more pleasure-focused tilt (as they have more leisure time than the lower classes) and frequent indulgence of feasting, drinking expensive art, etc is involved. worship among common folk tends to center around immaterial aspects (particularly music and dance) aside from dedicated festivals and feast days in her honor.

-dibella shares a place with zenithar as sometimes being seen as the 'rich mens gods', given the poor in the imperial hegemony dont tend to reap their claimed blessings as often.

-her depiction in the imperial cult leans towards androgyny, though with significant variation. she tends to be cast as a woman specifically in colovia due to heavy nordic cultural influence (where in the nordic pantheon she is squarely a woman).

-her face is usually depicted as obscured, (at least partially due to disagreements on how she should be shown) but she is inevitably depicted in line with the dominant beauty norms of the place and time (which even within the imperial cult will obviously vary tremendously from region to region)

-'dibellan' is a common term in imperial culture for transgender individuals, relating to dibella's varying gender in tales. this term isnt quite analogous to 'trans' irl and is more of a catch-all term for people existing outside of conventional gender norms, (thus sometimes used to refer to gay men/lesbians as well). this is most common in imperial dominant culture in cyrodiil, as other regions and cultures have their own terms, and different norms and definitions.

#this is about Worship rather than what the god herself actually is like or wants . bc i frankly. do not care much about that #so it involves things that arent 100% great like depictions of her 'beauty' tending to fall in line #with conventional beauty norms of the given region #(tho that would still be different than how its depicted ingame)

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TOP 20 YOUNGEST INDIAN CEO’S

Posted: March 2020

Source: Various public domain media

1) Ritesh Agarwal — Age 26

Ritesh started his entrepreneurial journey when he was 17 years old. He dropped out of college and launched his first start‐up Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2012. Oravel was designed as a platform to enable listing and booking of budget accommodation. Being an avid traveler, he soon realized that the budget hospitality sector lacked predictability. Therefore, he pivoted Oravel to OYO Rooms in 2013 with the key proposition of offering affordable and standardized accommodation. Ritesh Agarwal has benefited the society in more than one ways. He has also managed to achieve what most of the people only think of. Below listed are some of the accomplishments of this teenager. He has been named among the top 50 entrepreneurs by the TATA first dot awards in 2013. Finalist of the global student Entrepreneurship Awards India. He has been named one of the 8 hottest teenage startup founders in the world by a BusinessInsider in the year 2013. He is the World’s youngest CEO at 17

2) Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran — Age 17 & 19

Shravan and Sanjay, siblings aged 17 and 15 respectively are the youngest upcoming entrepreneurs of India. Together, they are the brain behind GoDimensions. The aim of the company is to develop a simple technological solution for the digital world. They are the youngest Mobile Application Developers in India. When asked about how they managed to achieve this feat, the brothers responded by saying “reading books and solving the problems given to them”. These two develop applications for both, Android as well as IOS platforms. \”We’ve always believed that we must do something for society,\” says Sanjay, on the thinking behind their latest app GoDonate, which facilitates the donation of food to local charities that would otherwise go to waste. \”In Central Asia itself, about 500 millions tons of food is being wasted each year,\” says Shravan. The dynamic duo has already developed 11 apps which have about 60,000 downloads across 60 countries! In 2017, they were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30.

3) Arjun Rai — Age 20 years

Arjun is the CEO of OdysseyAds and was always said to be highly inspired by TV shows like ‘The Oprah Show’ and ‘The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch’ and thought for ideas which changed the way of advertising and marketing in the tech space and today with the help of social platforms like LinkedIn, he met with other entrepreneurs who helped him to broaden his horizon and become one of the youngest and successful entrepreneurs in his field and he started working towards his company in 2009 and today he is the CEO of OdysseyAds.

4) Farrhad Acidwala — Age 23 years

Starting at the just age of 16 by borrowing 500 bucks from his father for buying a domain name he started building a web community particularly devoted to aviation and aero-modelling. After the website took off to success, he sold the community for a pretty high return. Today, Farrhad is the CEO of a web development, marketing, advertising and branding company called Rockstah Media. Despite being a very young company of 3 years, it has its own team of developers, marketers and designers across the globe and have marked its success in corporate. He had been featured in several best under 30 business leader rankings.

5) Rohan M Ganapathy (Age 27 years) & Yashas Karanam (Age 25 years)

Rohan and Yashas, are the young men behind the brand Bellatrix Aerospace, a company that have received their first high profile order from ISRO couple of years ago. Their order was for a satellite propulsion system and the company is now working on ambitious CHETAK, a 2 stage launch vehicle, which is planned to be aired by 2023. It is really a difference made by these entrepreneurs to get into such complex and challenging business industry at such young age and made a mark of their own

6) Deepanjali Dalmia — Age 28 years

Deepanjali is a young woman who represent ‘beauty with wisdom’, who took the leap of faith by quitting her top dollar job with E&Y in New York and decided to work for women’s health segment in India. She heads Heyday Care that produces organic sanitary pads made out of bamboo fiber and corn. She visions the product as effective, cheap and safe, making them perfect for women who either don’t have access to sanitary pads or don’t realize the harmful impact of ingredients in the regular off the shelf products and is a major social change maker in India

7) Kavita Shukla — Age 31 years

Kavita is the founder of FreshPaper which keeps the produces fresh for longer hours than today’s conventional methods. She has patented her innovation. FreshPaper was in a handful of co-ops and farmers’ markets by 2012, when Whole Foods placed a big order for two regions. Today the product is sold in groceries nationwide, and in over 35 countries fulfilling Kavita’s global aspirations.

8) Jeffin Ani Johns — Age 29 years

Jeffin is a young entrepreneur who chose to take the path of entrepreneurship instead of lucrative corporate job after his MBA. His entrepreneurship journey started in 2012 with an online reselling platform business and have ventured into several startups later. Currently, Jeffin Ani Johns is a serial entrepreneur major known for being the CEO & co founder of leading consulting firm BrandKeeda, a brand which have helped several micro startups to create their own brands through various innovative methods. He had been featured in several best under 30 business leader rankings. Despite being a very young company and young entrepreneur he have gained over 150 clients in over 3 countries and have been nominated to represent the country in several international startup summits.

9) Arushi Jain — Age 26 years

Arushi Jain is the founder of StayHappi Pharmacy. The idea behind starting StayHappi Pharmacy was to ensure that everyone in the country gets quality medicine at an affordable price. The brand aims to serve humanity and build its offline channels where it could reach consumers/patients and provide them with the authority to make a smart choice and choose the right medicine at a reasonable cost. It is a noble initiative, effectively marrying business acumen with human compassion. It is directed at one of the most pressing concerns of the society today, ie., availability of affordable and quality medication to all those are in need; a true societal cause to it very core. Arushi is planning to open around 2,000 more stores in different locations by 2020. As our aim is to offer medicines to the people across India at affordable prices without compromising on the quality of the products, we will continue to strengther. Being young also Arushi have made it into headlines of corporate world with her achievements in recent years

10) Amir Rao — Age 31 Years

Amir is a studio director at Supergiant Games. He also a co-creator of role-playing action video game Bastion which has won many awards and so far, as sold around 2.2 million copies. Amir tries to create continuous innovation in his business to stay ahead in his game

11) Pranav Yadav — Age 30 years

Pranav is the CEO of Neuro-Insight. It is a neuro-marketing firm that has designed and developed brain mapping technology to understand and improve the quality of commercials on TV. Pranav Yadav is an inspirational entrepreneur decided to make a difference in his industry

12) Bala Sarda — Age 28 years

Bala Sarda is the founder of Vahdam Teas, a brand which is even appretiated by global personality Oprah. Founded In 2015 By Bala Sarda, a fourth-generation tea entrepreneur, Vahdam Teas’ mission is to build a global tea and superfoods brand. With direct sourcing from estates across India and local distribution in key markets like the US, Vahdam is India’s largest premium homegrown tea brand for the world. At the age of 23, Bala started Vahdam Teas and in 4 years, it has taken India Tea to the global stage under a grown label and also build the world’s truly vertically integrated global brand, with its subsidiaries and presence in the US and Europe. He had been featured in several best under 30 business leader rankings.

13) Kshitij Marwah — Age 31 years

Kshitij Marwah is a design master who is yet to hit 35 but has made a big impact with his cutting edge ventures. First with MIT Media Lab India Initiative and then Tesseract Inc, he made waves in the industry. The latter saw him get on the fast moving Make In India wagon and has led to innovative products that have become the talk of the town. Voxel, first holographic headset for Smartphones and Quark 360, the smallest 360 degree virtual reality camera have brought him and his company much acclaim and even made to forbes list

14) Shirin Mann Sangha — Age 31 years

Shirin Mann Sangha hold a Master’s Degree in International Journalism from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. Upon returning to India, she started working as a crime journalist with a Delhi NCR based investigative paper. However, her passion for design eventually led her to launch NeedleDust.

NeedleDust was an outcome of her own wedding, Shirin didn’t want to pair her wedding lehenga with stilettos which was the norm. Hailing from Chandigarh, she identified a deep connection with traditional Punjabi jutti’s. Scouring the markets for the perfect pair, she came across jutti’s that were either too plain, boring or simply just uncomfortable. She then decided to design and get a pair made for herself. The outcome of which was an exquisite pair of gold, fuschia and red jutti’s. During this process, she spoke to the craftsmen and artisans to understand this delicate handicraft that is on the verge of extinction. NeedleDust came to fruition to revive this dying craft and bring jutti’s back to the global fashion scene. She is one of the prominent startup entrepreneur in her space

15) Trishneet Arora — Age 25

At the age of 25, Trishneet Arora is an author, a self-described friendly hacker and the founder and CEO of cyber security startup TAC Security Solutions. The India-based company performs Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for corporates identifying weaknesses in their cyber security. He has received funding from angel investor Vijay Kedia and support from former VP of IBM, William May. In 2017, Arora was listed among the 50 Most Influential Young Indians by GQ Magazine, while August 25, 2017 was proclaimed Trishneet Arora Day, by the Mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

16) Akash Shukla — Age 30

Akash Shukla is the co founder of Uprise India Foundation, a one of a kind and highly appreciated venture. “Uprise India Foundation provided the platform for women who are trying to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. Women who will enrol with the program would be getting 360 business training, support & guidance for making their dream career successful. Any women can enrol irrespective of any business/profile, any women who own start-up, SME’S or two individual professionals,” shared Dudeja.

Under the initiative, Uprise India will organize monthly workshops in distinct towns to train women entrepreneurs. Their goal is to cover maximum metro cities and other important commercial enterprise towns of India. Notably, more than 100 women entrepreneurs were addressed at the conference.

Uprise India Foundation is an initiative taken by Akash Shukla along with his co-founder, to help women make their diverse identity in the world. Talking at the event, Shukla said, “In today’s time, we are missing the mindset of seeking out new knowledge and challenges and most importantly, we are missing long term development plans.” He had been featured in several best under 30 business leader rankings.

17) Abhishek Singh — Age 24

Abhishek Singh is the founder of Rankethon. The venture was created from his vision as from childhood he used to spend hours in a home-made lab and try various things. This urge to work in a state-of-art-lab which was his passion paved ways to make the venture. Rankethon is in a way a realization of the dream. Since 2014, he had been conducting number of program linked to this sector across the country in different level.

Rankethon provide high tech industry oriented lab at the student’s convenience point’s right from school to colleges. A-cadre college pass out student learns basics from them, after they are asked to solve problems by using their core engineering skills. Later, they are deployed in top companies. With all this, we also provide webinars from professors & professionals at top companies.

Future plan of Abhishek when asked was that he is launching an online program called HomeRancho where students can get the complete training in a pre-designed portable lab at their doorstep in a completely practical manner. Currently, stalwarts in online education are doing at theoretical level but we want to give complete practical exposure to students in this segment, here we are in process to raise the funds to implement this at a next level.

18) Vaibhav Khandelwal — Age 28

Vaibhav’s is the Co-Founder & CTO, Shadowfax. He holds a graduate degree from IIT Delhi and his tech venture, Shadowfax, which he co-founded in 2015, at barely 23 years of age is one of leading ventures in their space.

Being is a problem solving entrepreneur by nature, he found logistics to be a challenging sector and decided to solve problems in to create his opportunity.

Shadowfax is a logistics platform which is a unique combination of technology and people to provide the last mile logistics service. Vaibhav is the tech genius and he uses technology as a medium of interaction with people. Vaibhav firmly believes that technology can solve many big problems. He had been awarded several national recognitions for his venture

19) Deepak Ravindran — 25

Deepak Ravindran is the Co-founder and CEO of Innoz Technologies. He is considered one of the youngest entrepreneurs of India who successfully co-founded and is currently running three companies who provide services of mobile messaging; Innoz, which is having a mission to connect the unconnected people by providing offline services through Innoz which is the world’s largest offline search engine along with SMS.

Another one is Quest, which is a mobile messaging platform which is used in 500+ startups to send offline SMS, and most recently is Lookup, an app which provides the conversation between customers and retailers so they can chat too, funded by Khosla and Biz Stone.

Recognized as one of the outstanding innovators under 35 by MIT Technology, And one of Asia’s 21 emerging leaders under 40 according to Asia Society.

20) Sarvesh Shashi — Age 25

All of 25 years of age, Sarvesh Shashi is the youngest CEO in the yoga and wellness fraternity. Sarvesh believes in the philosophy of consciousness through yoga and the emotion of happiness that stems out of yoga practices. He wants to spread this yoga happiness to thousands. At a young age of 21 he gave up a bright career in his father’s sprawling businesses and set out to touch the lives of many with yoga. Hence he is fondly called The CEO among Monks by many.

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New FMI Report Explores Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Activated Charcoal Supplements Market

The global activated charcoal supplements market will grow at a robust 11% CAGR during the forecast period, 2019-2029. Stringent government norms to address industrial pollution is likely to propel the usage of activated charcoal supplements in applications such as water treatment, and air purification. Upsurge in preventative healthcare practices is also likely to fuel growth engine of the market.

Activated Charcoal Supplements Market - Key Takeaways

Given its highly soluble nature, powder form will maintain leading revenue share; tablets to see demand from geriatric consumers.

Drug stores will account for maximum sales, followed by health & beauty stores that target the millennial population.

North America and Europe continue to stay at forefront; East Asia to exhibit staggering growth.

Adoption in wastewater treatment, automotive, and industrial applications to widen growth opportunities.

Activated Charcoal Supplements Market - Key Driving Factors

Expanding patient pool of intestinal diseases will be a key factor driving the growth of activated charcoal supplements market.

Organic origin of activated charcoal supplements to bolster their consumption.

Health benefits associated with activated charcoal supplements to find use among health-conscious consumers.

Increasing application in various industrial end uses owing to the versatility of activated charcoal supplements.

Activated Charcoal Supplements Market - Key Restraints

Non-uniform availability of raw materials to remain a hindrance in activated charcoal supplements market

Strict regulatory framework to pose a challenge for conventional producers of activated charcoal supplements

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The Beautiful Truths About Being a Highly Sensitive Human

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The Beautiful Truths About Being a Highly Sensitive Human

Being intense and sensitive—seeing the world through different eyes and feeling the world on a distinctive wavelength—does not lay an easy path.

You are most likely a deep thinker, an intuitive feeler, and an extraordinary observer. You are prone to existential depression and anxiety, but you also know beauty and rapture. When art or music moves you, you are flooded with waves of joy and ecstasy. As a natural empathiser, you have a gift; yet you are also overwhelmed by the constant waves of social nuances and others’ psychic energies.

You might have spent your whole life trying to fit in with the cultural “shoulds” and “musts In school, you wanted to be in the clique, but you were unable to make small talks or have shallow relationships.

At work, you want the authorities to recognise you, but your soul does not compromise on depth, authenticity and connections.

You feel hurt for being the black sheep in the family, but your success is not recognised in a conventional way.

In these following paragraphs, I want to remind you how precious your unique life path is. Rather than pretending to be who you are not, you only do yourself and the world justice by celebrating your sensitivity and intensity.

(Please click here for a full definition of what it means to be emotionally intense and sensitive)

SENSITIVITY AS A FORM OF BRAIN DIFFERENCE

Emotional sensitivity is a brain difference—an innate trait that makes one different from the normative way of functioning.

While the mass media and medical professionals are eager to use labels to diagnose people with a way of being that is different from the norm, findings in neuroscience are going in the opposite direction. More and more, the scientific community acknowledges “neurodiversity”—the biological reality that we are all wired differently. Rather than being an inconvenience to be eliminated, neurodiversity is an evolutionary advantage, something that is essential if we were to flourish as a species.

Like many brain differences, it is misunderstood. As people naturally reject what they do not understand, the emotionally sensitive ones are being pushed to the margin. Those who feel more, and seem to have a mind that operates outside of society’s norm are often outcasted. In the Victorian era, women who appeared emotional were given the humiliating label of “hysteria.” Even today, emotional people tend to be looked down upon, and sometimes criticised and shunned.

The stigma attached to sensitivity is made worse by trends in the mass media. In 2014, author Bret Easton Ellis branded Millennials as narcissistic, over-sensitive and sheltered; from there, the disparaging term “generation snowflake” went viral. The right-wing media ran with the insult. Last year, a Daily Mail article described young people as “a fragile, thin-skinned younger generation.” This notion is not only unfounded but also unjust and damaging.

The sensitive male is also misjudged and marginalised. Under the ”boys don’t cry!” macho culture, those who feel more are called “weak” or “sissies,” with little acknowledgement of their unique strengths. Many sensitive boys and men live lives of quiet suffering and have opted to numb their emotional pain of not fitting the male ideal with alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, or other addictions.

Being sensitive and intense is not an illness—in fact, it often points to intelligence, talents or creativity. However, after years of being misdiagnosed by health professionals, criticised by schools or workplace authority, and misunderstood by even those who are close to them, many sensitive people start to believe there is something wrong with them. Ironically, low self-esteem and loneliness make them more susceptible to having an actual mental disorder.

SOME OF US ARE BORN SENSITIVE

Since the 1990s, various scientific frameworks have emerged to explain our differences in sensitivity. Some of the most prominent being sensory processing sensitivity, “differential susceptibility theory,” and “biological sensitivity to context” (Lionetti et al., 2018).

From birth, we differ in our neurological makeup. Each baby has their style based on how well they react to external stimuli and how they organises sensation. Medical professionals use tools like the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) to measure such differences.

Harvard developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan was amongst the first scholars to examine sensitivity as a brain difference. In Kagan’s studies of infants, he found that a group of infants are more aroused and distressed by novel stimuli—a stranger coming into the room, a noxious smell. To these cautious infants, any new situation is a potential threat.

On closer examination, sensitive infants have different biochemical reactions when exposed to stress. Their system secrets higher levels of norepinephrine (our brain’s version of adrenaline) and stress hormones like cortisol. In other words, they have a fear system that is more active than most.

Since the regions of the brain that receive signals for potential threats are extra reactive, these children are not geared to process a wide range of sensations at a single moment. Even as adults, they are more vulnerable to stress-related disease, chronic pain and fatigue, migraine headaches, and environmental stimuli ranging from smell, sight, sound to electromagnetic influences.

In 1995, Elaine Aron published her book Highly Sensitive People, bringing the idea into the mainstream. Aron defines high sensitivity as a distinct personality trait that affects as many as 15-20 percent of the population—too many to be a disorder, but not enough to be well understood by the majority.

Here are a set of HSP traits in Aron’s original conception:

Noticing sounds, sensations and smells that others miss (e.g. clock ticking, the humming noise from a refrigerator, uncomfortable clothing)

Feeling moved on a visceral level by things like art, music and performance, or nature

“Pick up” others moods or have them affect you more than most

Being sensitive to pain or other physical sensations

A quiet environment is essential to you

Feel uneasy or overwhelmed in a busy and crowded environment

Sensitivity to caffeine

Startle/ blush easily

Dramatic impact on your mood

Having food sensitivities, allergies, asthma

THE ORCHIDS AND THE DANDELIONS

But does being born sensitive destine one to lifelong unhappiness and turmoil? To answer this question, Thomas Boyce, M.D., founded the “Orchid and Dandelion” theory.

Combining years of experience as a paediatrician, and results from empirical studies, Dr. Boyce and his team found that most children, approximately 80 percent of the population, are like dandelions—they can survive almost every environmental circumstances. The remaining 20 percent are like orchids; they are exquisitely sensitive to their environment and vulnerable under conditions of adversity. This theory explains why siblings brought up in the same family might respond differently to family stress. While orchid children are affected by even the most subtle differences in their parents’ feelings and behaviours, dandelion children are unperturbed.

But sensitivity does not equal vulnerability. Many of Dr. Boyce’s orchid children patients have grown up to become eminent adults, magnificent parents, intelligent and generous citizens of the world. As it turns out; sensitive children respond to not just the negative but also the positive. Their receptivity to the environment can also bring a reversal of fortune.

Orchid children’s receptivity applies to not just physical sensations, but also relational experiences such as warmth or indifference. In critical, undermining setting, they may devolve into despair, but in a supportive and nurturing environment, they thrive even further more than the dandelions.

The Orchid and Dandelion theory holds a provocative view of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most challenges also underlie the most remarkable qualities. Sensitivity is like a “highly leveraged evolutionary bets” that carry both high risks and potential rewards (Dobbs, 2009). The very sensitive children that suffer in a precarious childhood environment are the same children most likely to flourish and prosper. They may be more prone to upsets and physical sensitivities, but they also possess the most capacity to be unusually vital, creative, and successful.

In other words, the sensitive ones are not born “vulnerable”; they are simply more responsive to their surrounding system. With the right kind of knowledge, support and nurture—even if this means replenishing what one did not get in childhood in adulthood—they can thrive like no others.

THRIVING IN A NEW WORLD

Our world is changing. Qualities such as sensitivity, empathy, high perceptiveness—what the sensitive person excel at, are needed and celebrated.

In Daniel Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, he pointed out that our society has arrived at a point in which systematisation, computerisation, and automation are giving way to new skills such as intuition, creativity, and empathy. For more than 100 years, the sequential, linear, and logical were praised. As we move towards a different economic era, the world’s leaders will need to be creators and empathisers. As Pink quoted: “I say, ‘Get me some poets as managers.’ Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow’s new business leaders.”

It is clear that humanity is calling for a different way of being, and a redefinition of power. In today’s world, people yearn to be led by empathy, rather than force. Even in the most ego-driven corporate space, we hear people saying things like “trust your gut instinct,” “follow your intuition,” or “watch the energy in the room.” Sensitivity, emotional intensity, deep empathy—what were previously thought as weaknesses—are now much-valued qualities that make you stand out.

We are in a time where the previously highly sensitive and empathic misfits rise to become the leaders. Therefore, embracing your gift of sensitivity is not just something you do for yourself, but also those around you. If you can summon the courage to stand out as a sensitive leader, you set a solid example for all others like you. The more you can free yourself from the childlike need to trade “fitting in” for authenticity, the more you can channel your gifts and serve the world.

TRUE BELONGING

For years, you have desperately wanted to “fit in.”

But at times, you hear a tiny whispering voice that champions the truth. It asks:

What if what your inner self needs is to be allowed just to be you, even when it means not fitting in the crowd?

What if what your soul is destined to be different, like many rebels, the artists, and visionaries in history?

What if like all the honourable trailblazers and truth tellers, your seat in this world is indeed on the fringe?

Coming to terms with your authentic place in the world might mean accepting the reality that you will never “fit in” the conventional way.

This is not immediately easy.

After all, you want to belong, to be part of a tribe, to feel like a wider part of humanity.

But once you have released the old idea of what “fitting in” meant, you could make room for a new meaning of belongingness.

In true belongingness, fitting in means something different.

It means you have made a home for yourself.

It means you have committed never to reject yourself, even when the world says otherwise.

It means you have asserted your boundaries, and you honour only the opinions of those who have earned your respect.

It means you drop the task of peacemaking and align with the mission of truth-telling.

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LG G6 first look: LG finally delivers a great flagship

Welcome to the brave new world of tiny bezels.

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The LG G6 is sitting pretty.

This year, smartphones are expected to become little more than big, bezel-less screens, and LG’s new flagship has a head start on Samsung’s Galaxy S8, which will launch in late March, and is way ahead of Apple, whose new iPhone is expected in September.

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I’ve been using the G6 for the past several days, and it’s a beautiful smartphone, quite possibly the nicest LG has ever built. It has a huge 5.7-inch, QHD+ screen with a taller-than-usual 18:9 aspect ratio and a very compact body. It’s covered with a glass surface on both front and back. And it has an innovative, fun-to-use dual camera on the back that’s different in a good way from the cameras on its competitors.

It’s not without drawbacks: Some of the specs could be better, and software (which admittedly wasn’t finalized on the phone I’ve used) was sometimes quirky. But it’s the best phone LG has built in a long, long time.

I’ve spent more than a week with a pre-production unit of the G6, but I didn’t mind turning it into my daily phone while I tried it out. This thing is handsome, and it worked well despite the early software.

LG’s got a looker

The G6’s design feels new, but it was a logical step for LG. The company has been pushing ultra-wide screen ratios on its TVs and monitors for a while. And its previous flagship phone, the ill-fated modular G5, already had the fingerprint sensor (which doubles as a power button) on its back.

Apple and Samsung may make a drastic change, and move the home button/fingerprint sensor from the front to the back for their upcoming phones, but for LG this was an evolutionary step. The G6 improves on the G5’s design by making the screen taller, with tiny bezels on the side, and just enough space on top for the camera, sensors and speaker.

Even though the G6 has a 5.7-inch screen, I had no problems using it with one hand, because its body is much smaller than those of most phablets with a screen that big.

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The design works well. The phone is simple-looking: A huge screen in the front, with rounded corners that should prevent damage in case of fall, but are also a very nice visual differentiator from other flagships out there. I did notice, however, that when looked upon closely, the rounded screen corners look imperfectly cut and have a slightly different curvature than the bezels.

Even better there are no camera bumps!

On the back, the uniformity of the shiny Gorilla Glass 5 surface is only broken by two, symmetrically placed rear cameras, the flash and an unobtrusive fingerprint sensor.

Even better there are no camera bumps! All of those components sit flush with the phone’s back.

The device comes in black, silver and white. I checked out the silver (Ice Platinum, as LG calls it) variant, and in my opinion it’s the best looking of the three. The aluminum-under-glass design of this version subtly changes color from grey to blueish, depending on the viewing angle, and reflects its surroundings in a fancy, but not overly shiny way.

The phone’s aluminum frame is comfortable to hold and has pretty much all the features you’d expect: volume buttons on the left side, a headphone jack on top, and a USB-C slot, as well as a speaker grille on the bottom.

It looks like the back of the G6 is a polished metallic surface, but it’s not. It’s a glass surface over a polished metallic surface.

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The whole package feels solid; much more so than some of LG’s previous phones (especially the flimsy, modular G5). Plus, it’s water- and dust-resistant up to IP68 specifications, which is pretty much the standard among flagships these days. If you do get one, I strongly suggest you get a case for it, as the phone’s glass back will scratch (and, possibly, break) if you leave it unprotected.

Great specs with some exceptions

The LG G6 comes with some standout specs, including the 5.7-inch, 2,880 x 1,440 pixel LCD screen and the dual 13-megapixel cameras on the back.

Other specs are what you’d expect from a flagship these days: 4GB of RAM, 32/64GB of storage (depending on the region; thankfully, you can upgrade that with a microSD card), a 3,300mAh non-removable battery (with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 support) and Android 7.0 Nougat.

The system-on-a-chip powering the phone is a Snapdragon 821. It’s a powerful chip, but a slight disappointment given that Qualcomm will soon launch a new flagship chip, the Snapdragon 835. Also, the selfie camera is just a 5-megapixel sensor, which is underwhelming now that 8-megapixel selfie cams are the norm.

Finally, some features will only be available in certain markets. The phone will have wireless charging in the U.S., but not the 32-bit Quad DAC (digital-to-analog converter) audio chip. That particular feature will be reserved for a handful of Asian markets, including Korea, but there the phone won’t have wireless charging. Europeans get neither, and while these features aren’t deal breakers for many, it still hurts to get a worse deal for the same (or higher) price.

That crazy screen

The screen on the LG G6 deserves a closer look. Its unique, 18:9 (or 2:1 if you will) aspect ratio means there’s more space for apps such as the camera than on a conventional screen. To prove its usefulness, LG included a special Square Camera app that takes full advantage of the elongated screen; you can, for example, take a 1:1 photo and immediately see its preview in a box below; then, you can take another pic and compare the two.

The LG G6 has a huge, 5.7-inch screen with an 18:9 aspect ratio, leaving just enough space for the logo at the bottom and camera, speaker grille and sensors on top.

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The screen should, ideally, be better for watching video content and playing games, though you’ll have to find a way to convert most videos to an 18:9 aspect ratio to use every pixel on the screen. It supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision standards, meaning videos in those formats will look more vivid if you can find them.

Due to lack of HDR content Amazon and Netflix offer some, but not for smartphones at the moment I doubt many users will care about HDR support. And I doubt even more that app makers will create special apps to take advantage of LG G6’s screen (they might, however, do that if other manufacturers follow suit with displays that support HDR, and LG said it’s counting on it).

But even if you don’t really care about the aspect ratio, it’s a beautiful screen, with tons of pixels for clarity and solid brightness in direct sunlight. More importantly, it’s huge without being huge; LG actually removed the one-handed operation features from its software and was right to do so, as the phone is much more small hand-friendly than some of the 5.5+ inches phablets I’ve used.

Fast performance, OK battery life

The LG G6 doesn’t have over-the-top specs, but it does have good specs compared to any phone that came out in the last six months, and it never felt slow.

My one fear was battery life. I use a lot of different phones, but the only ones that last me more than a day are the phablets with huge batteries. Switching to a comparably small phone made me reach for my battery pack, and I did need it, as the LG G6’s battery was just barely enough for a heavy user like me.

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On one occasion, with Wi-Fi tethering on and several devices connected to it, the G6’s battery drained in a few hours. But that’s a rare use case; most of the time, it just barely made it through an entire day. This can be alleviated by using the “battery saver” icon, available from the notifications menu that appears when you slide your finger down from the top of the screen. Then, however, the phone gets a lot less smart.

I can’t provide any benchmarks for either battery life or performance, as LG didn’t allow me to benchmark this pre-production unit. Generally, from experience, the G6 performs exactly how its spec sheet suggests, but don’t expect miracles from that 3,300mAh battery.

Software tailored to a 2:1 screen

LG’s UX 6.0 user interface is not vastly different from stock Android, but there are differences. For example, the LG G6 comes without an app drawer by default, but you can enable it in the settings if you like (it’s not easy to find: Go to Settings > Apps, tap the three dots in the upper right corner, select Configure Apps, tap Home and choose Home & app drawer).

Save a few tough-to-find options, I didn’t have trouble getting used to the LG G6’s user interface.

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In general usage finding a particular setting, making a call, sending a text the G6 took some getting used to, but never to the point of annoyance. But LG’s UX user interface does change things quite a bit when it comes to built-in apps.

Some of them, like Camera and Music, take advantage of the screen’s 2:1 ratio, either by splitting nicely in the middle or by adding more options on the side. I don’t see any of it as a huge advantage, but it’s a nice touch that makes the phone a bit different from your run-of-the-mill Android.

Built-in apps, such as Music, take advantage of the LG G6’s elongated screen, both in portrait and landscape mode.

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The G6 also comes with a special feature, so far reserved only for Google-branded phones: Google Assistant. We’ve covered the feature at length; it’s not at all different from the version that comes with the Pixel, but is definitely a welcome addition to the G6’s feature set.

I’ve experienced bugs here and there. For example, I couldn’t get the time on the “always on” display to work properly, and I couldn’t get file transfer to work when I connected the phone to my MacBook Air. But once again, the phone was running pre-production software. With a bit of polishing unless you absolutely must have stock Android using the G6 should be a fine, unobtrusive experience.

The dual cameras are now in sync

LG’s last flagship, the G5, had dual cameras that did a nifty trick; one was a regular camera, while the other had a wide-angle lens (great for those shots in crammed spaces), and you could seamlessly switch between the two. But the main camera had a far superior, 16-megapixel sensor, and switching to the secondary, 8-megapixel shooter yielded significantly worse photos.

The dual 13-megapixel camera sensors don’t have the same specs, but they do have the same resolution, so switching from one to the other won’t make a huge difference in most cases.

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The LG G6 fixes this. The phone has two 13-megapixel cameras, and switching between the two is faster. They’re not exactly the same; the main, 71-degree lens has a far better, f/1.8 aperture, while the wide, 125-degree lens has an f/2.4 aperture with no optical image stabilization. But in many cases, you’ll be able to switch between the two with no huge difference in quality.

In practice, I was pleased with how the LG G6’s cameras performed. Both were reasonably fast, if not the fastest I’ve seen. The UI is cluttered with tons of options, but you’ll get used to them or switch to “simple view,” which eliminates all but a few key features.

As for quality, the photos I’ve gotten on sunny days were great, but that’s not surprising for any phone camera these days. On a rainy day, the photos weren’t as good; the colors were vivid but the contrast was too strong and details were smudgy, likely the result of too much post-processing. Check out a photo I’ve taken on one such day.

Had the sun stuck around for a few more minutes, this photo would’ve looked a lot better.

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However, the G6 shined where most smartphones stumble: in those dark, indoor shots. While I didn’t have time to do a detailed comparison, the photos were brighter than those taken by an assortment of other Android phones I had lying around, and the usually unavoidable yellow tint was barely there. I assume there’s a lot of post-processing magic making these photos so great, but I’m not complaining.

You might not notice it in the photo, but the room was relatively dark.

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You’ll want to use the main camera for darker shots, as they’ll be much grainier if you shoot with the wide lens sensor. However, that 125-degree angle is very useful for taking a photo of a group of people in a small space.

This photo was taken from about 3 feet away.

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Would I have preferred to have 16- or 20-megapixel cameras instead of 13-megapixel ones? Sure. But the photos the G6 took were mostly great, and I’d rather have good photos in a lower resolution than shoddy photos with tons of (ugly) pixels.

If you’re shooting video, you can do it in the 18:9 or the more standard 16:9 aspect ratio, but you won’t get a bigger resolution than 2,160 x 1,080 pixels on the former. In other words, you won’t be able to take a video that will fully take advantage of the phone’s screen, which is a pity.

The selfie cam also has a regular and wide shooting mode. The photos are bright, but the quality is meh.

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Finally, the selfie cam also has a wide-angle lens, which is good, and takes bright photos even in poorly lit rooms, but the overall quality is mediocre at best.

A winner with some (minor) caveats

If you need a phone with an exceptional battery life, the G6 might not be for you. Or if you’re hell-bent on having a phone with all the best specs, including the upcoming Snapdragon 835 chip.

But in nearly every other case, I can easily recommend the LG G6. The phone is gorgeous, with a huge screen in a compact body, an innovative take on the dual camera trend, and more than enough extras and cool features to make it stand out in the crowd.

Nice looks, a decent amount of innovation, and a few minor issues. We’ll need some time with the final product, but right now it looks like LG has a winner with the G6.

Image: Stan Schroeder/Mashable

Gone are the modular gimmicks of the G5; gone are the wildly unnecessary features such as the second screen on the LG V20. The tradeoff is a good one: The LG G6 is a surprisingly solid and simple phone that somehow manages to be the most interesting flagship you can buy right now.

Of course, the price has to be right for me to give a full recommendation, and we don’t know it at this point. And yes, a very big competitor, the Samsung Galaxy S8, is coming fairly soon. But if LG prices the G6 reasonably, it could be a great choice for a lot of people.

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