Staring Into the Abyss as a Core Life Skill

Similarly, to cross the cringe minefield, you need to have humility about the fact that your perception is distorted, right now. You simply cannot see the landscape of options in your life objectively. By default, you will ignore a path to your dreams if a personally perilous emotion—worthlessness, loneliness, imperfection—is along the way. If you ... See more

How do we get out of this narrow spiral? No different than the pilots who needed to broaden their view to get out of inattentional deafness. Or the science that tells us to zoom out and think in third person instead of first person to broaden our perspective and disconnect ourself from the experience. If we find ourselves getting narrow, counteract

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