Personal Development
Musings on living a better life + becoming a better human. Plus tools, projects and communities that help you do that.
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Personal Development
when the trauma label has been applied by outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place and our culture insists that it be traumatising. Sometimes this extraneous narrative resonates and provides a sense of relief, but in other instances disagreement and refusal of the label can lead to judgement from... See more
Niklas Serning • Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 1)
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amazon.comAdam Gopnik: In my lexicon – which may be idiosyncratic but I think is also illuminating – “achievement”represents all the outer-directed, institutionally compelled things we do to advance our lives or those of our children. Getting grades, passing classes, pushing forward into select colleges. All of that. “Accomplishment” on the other hand, means... See more
Accomplishment vs. Achievement
accomplishment = inner-directed
achievement = outer-directed
