implementing change
Lorna K. Bailey
pin.it
Here are some tactics that I find useful when I’m deep in the Moat:
- Attempt the basic move of mindfulness meditation: get curious about the tingling feeling of embarrassment in the body, rather than your mental stories about it or reactions to it. See if you can welcome it. Curiosity inverts resistance.
- Remind yourself that embarrassment is simply th
Learn to love the Moat of Low Status
Okay, but really, short of traumatizing yourself, how can you learn to thrive in the Moat, so you can experience the glorious upside?
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel embarrassed. There’s not a ... See more
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel embarrassed. There’s not a ... See more
Learn to love the Moat of Low Status
Fear of being temporarily low in social status stops human beings from living richer lives to an unbelievable degree.
Learn to love the Moat of Low Status
Assume everything is learnable
Most subject matter is learnable, even stuff that seems really hard. But beyond that, many (most?) traits that people treat as fixed are actually quite malleable if you (1) believe they are and (2) put the same kind of work into learning them as you would anything else.
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
It’s called a moat both because you can’t just leap to the other side and because it gives anyone who can cross it a real advantage.