Maybe You’re Not Actually Trying
This Controversial Approach to Psychology Might Help You Finally Change Your Life
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Having laid out at length the political problems with delegating the responsibility for coping with your own life to a political program, I must confess that my primary concern is personal, not political. I do not hate the knowledge workers at whom this type of essay is directed (I am one of them). I believe that large swathes of them are experienc... See more
Gawker • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
This loss of Self can manifest in a number of ways in adulthood, and I’ve seen it play out most often as either severe indecisiveness and procrastination or as an obsessive need to succeed.
Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
often is something like: It’s complicated. In my case, the change should have been good, but I was exhausted. It turned out that my body clock had shifted, but I hadn’t adapted my work patterns. I would wake up before sunrise, journal, then start working and keep on going until dinner, routinely putting in twelve-hour shifts without noticing. Well,
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With Lifelong Struggles, Effort Isn’t What’s Missing
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