How To Think About Change

“It was not being depressed that inactivated me in a political sense, but being well! [...] I think we should acknowledge that distress, depression, and other forms of “mental illness” are necessary components of social change. [...] Depression can be a tool that can be wielded; it can be a tool for insight, for passion, for action.”

Depression Is a

“The secret to change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman

“We do have the capacity to step out of past conditioning, but as anyone who has consciously attempted it can attest, it’s a difficult project. One of the reasons for this is that doing something truly new—actually moving off those habitual tracks—feels like some combination of weird, unfamiliar and wrong.

The trick is to learn to stay with the exp