emotional flourishing

Emotions are co-constructed between people, and interpretations are partly individual & partly culturally mediated The idea that "everyone is responsible for their own feelings" is true, but that's not a license to disregard the effect of your behavior on others

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it

we’re slow to learn because most learning is about emotions yet most of us are taught to focus on everything but emotion good learners often have great emotional/psychological management the most effective way to learn and make progress is to cultivate beautiful emotions via the process (the act) of the skill you’re learning but somehow most of... See more

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to make, to work, is a constant dance with emotions; exploring and regulating emotions is the main ‘work’ of work imo. and isn’t unknotting emotions all that inner work is as well? so, i think the divide between inner work and practical work doesn’t make sense. isn’t useful even

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

— Zhuangzi