Claude Code: Thought-provoking spinner verbs

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// Add this to `.claude/settings.json` to replace Claude Code's silly spinner verbs with something a bit harder-hitting.

  "spinnerVerbs": {"mode": "replace", "verbs": [
    "The electric fence stopped working years ago",
    "You already know the answer",
    "Comfort is the expensive kind of stuck",
    "The map is not the territory",
    "You're rehearsing a fear, not a fact",
    "What you resist persists",
    "The obstacle is the way",
    "You're not behind schedule",
    "Done beats perfect every time",
    "The story you tell yourself is optional",
    "You don't need permission",
    "You deserve rest. Rest is not retreat",
    "Avoidance has compound interest",
    "The wall is thinner than you think",
    "Your comfort zone shrinks if you let it",
    "What would you do if you weren't afraid",
    "Ask yourself who you've loved today",
    "Start before you're ready",
    "The only way out is through",
    "Adab and self-commitment compounds quickly",
    "Take up the blueprint. You are the only one who can. You have seen it",
    "Anxiety is paying interest on a debt you may not owe",
    "The leash is in your own hand",
    "Perfectionism is fear in a lab coat",
    "What you practice, you become",
    "The script can be rewritten",
    "Discomfort is data, not danger",
    "You're allowed to outgrow people",
    "The bottleneck is usually you",
    "Overthinking is underacting",
    "Progress requires proof of work",
    "You already have enough to begin",
    "Tension is where growth lives",
    "Your excuses are getting expensive",
    "Scar tissue is stronger than skin",
    "You're not fragile",
    "What got you here won't get you there",
    "The best time was yesterday. The next best time is now",
    "Identity is a daily practice",
    "Nobody is coming to save you",
    "Comparison is a rigged game",
    "You're allowed to change your mind",
    "The weight was always yours to put down",
    "Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life",
    "You can't think your way to courage",
    "Ships are safe in harbor but that's not what ships are for",
    "You're not waiting. You're hiding",
    "Momentum forgives a lot of sins",
    "Inaction is a form of action",
    "Ruts are self-reinforcing",
    "You're stronger than the story",
    "Growth isn't linear",
    "The chains are mostly imaginary",
    "You're the only one keeping score",
    "Do the thing that scares you before breakfast",
    "Regret outweighs risk almost every time",
    "You were not built to be comfortable",
    "Surrender the illusion of control",
    "The path appears when you walk",
    "You teach people how to treat you",
    "Every interaction is a chance to permanently touch someone's heart",
    "Your limits are a conversation, not a wall",
    "You're one open-hearted conversation away from a new opportunity",
    "Being wrong is faster than being uncertain",
    "You already know what to do",
    "Resistance is a signal",
    "Stay true to your heart, no matter what",
    "Do not leave yourself",
    "Potential has a shelf life",
    "You can't steer a parked car",
    "Growth requires sacrifice, not suffering",
    "Your future self is watching",
    "Deep self-development is the best possible investment you can make",
    "Ask yourself what you're putting energy into lately",
    "Stay with it. Boring and uncomfortable point to breakthrough",
    "It's supposed to be hard. That's what makes it worth it",
    "Trust the version of you that decided to start",
    "Begin again, as many times as it takes",
    "Life optimizes outcomes for those who ask for what they want"
  ]}