self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
someone said that we should stop saying that songs make us cry and start saying that they let us cry, which I think is beautiful.
There's an idea I think I picked up from Robert Kegan, the idea of an "evolutionary balance" in your personality structure. Or maybe it was “evolutionary truce.” The idea, as I remember it, is that your personality is made of many different dynamic forces, all pulling and pushing in different ways. For most of your life, those forces find an... See more
Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
The least sexy advice on behaviour change nobody wants to hear?
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.
Shane Copeland on Substack
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
"Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within."
Ruha Benjamin
Be dangerous, its careful out there
Tired: Rushing to quick answers or public declarations
Wired: Sitting with questions, refining them in trusted company, and waiting until the shape of truth emerges
Yancey Stricklerx.comHave faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.