Saved by Stuart Evans
Stop Running Headfirst into Problems
When we feel stuck, our instinct is to look outside ourselves:
- A new direction in our business
- A different project
- A change of scenery, traveling to an exotic location
But here's a powerful alternative:
Use your dissatisfaction as fuel for inner growth.
Instead of chasing external solutions, focus on changing yourself.
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Phil Powis • 057: The Sacred Art of Finding Inspiration in the Ordinary
Molly Mielke • movement
Problems? Do you suffer from them? Seek fixes for them? The world sure is right now.
And a billion-dollar industry—self-help, motivation, coaching, and counseling—even stands primed to help us deal. The scientific community these days too. It claims to know what’s right.
But how are we doing?
With the evolution of these fields and their e... See more
SEEKING FIXES
Problems? Do you suffer from them? Seek fixes for them? The world sure is right now.
And a billion-dollar industry—self-help, motivation, coaching, and counseling—even stands primed to help us deal. The scientific community these days too. It claims to know what’s right.
But how are we doing?
With the evolution of these fields and their e
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“The practices that carry the greatest potential for transformative change are usually counter- instinctual.” I take him to mean that if you’re trying to get better at life in some way– more patient, or better at listening, or less prone to procrastination or anxiety or self- sabotage– the necessary actions are pretty much guaranteed not to feel es
... See moreOliver Burkeman • The Awkwardness Principle
Whatever else happens, stay busy. (I always lean on this wise advice, from the seventeenth-century English scholar Robert Burton, on how to survive melancholy: “Be not solitary, be not idle.”) Find something to do—anything, even a different sort of creative work altogether—just to take your mind off your anxiety and pressure. Once, when I was strug
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