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The art of deciding what no longer deserves to weigh you down.
means To throw away, set aside, or get rid of something you no longer want or need.
from From the Old French 'des-' (away, off) bolted onto 'card' — yes, the playing card, itself from the Latin 'charta,' a leaf of papyrus or paper. The word was born at the card table, where to 'discard' literally meant to lay down the cards you didn't want. From those rejected hands it spread outward to cover anything cast off, until the gambler's gesture became the whole world's word for letting go.
- latin roots
- From throwing away a playing card mid-game
- card games
- The discard pile fuels strategy as much as hands
- hoarder's enemy
- Letting go physically lowers measurable cortisol levels
- design term
- Engineers prototype to discard, learning by deletion
operation northwoods — declassified 1997 u.s. military plan to fake false flag attacks and discard evidence to justify invading cuba
tuskegee syphilis study — 1932-1972 u.s. public health service study where researchers discarded ethical treatment of 600 black men to observe disease progression