i asked @aweissman earlier this week “what is one framework you wish young people would stop using for decision-making?” he shared with me the concept of “ghosts and ancestors” which i havent been able to stop thinking about it he also wrote about it in 2019
We build our own prisons and serve as our own jail keepers, but I’ve concluded that our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us – and self images – that hold us captive for a long time.
The individual who is intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past – the memory of earlier
... See moreIn other words, our ancestors’ experiences can affect our own brains and, therefore, our own experiences. Studies show that traumas experienced in one generation, such as the Jews during the Holocaust or children who have been abused, can show up as inherited psychological and behavioral tendencies in future generations, even if the specific memori
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