shifting perspectives
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shifting perspectives
Possibly the most counterintuitive thing in life is that if you’re tired, you can work out to gain more energy.
Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.twitter.comI've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.
- Bill Plotkin
- Bill Plotkin
River Kenna • Tweet
The obsession with statistical norms has turned psychology into a system for pathologizing difference. Any deviation from statistical norms is labeled a "disorder." Instead of understanding the full spectrum of human experience, we rush to correct it.
This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but... See more
This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but... See more
Laura London • In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma
Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
Renee Solana • Tweet
Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more
Charles Eisenstein • Shades of Many Colors
FOMO is good. Being plugged in is good. There is valuable info at all levels from twitter gossip to philosophy books. You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding - by Venkatesh Rao Against Waldenponding
I think “accomplishments” are traps. Accomplishments, by their very definition, exist only in the past or future—which are not even real things.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Growth Without Goals
When you feel like things are hard, your instinct might be to ask “why are things this hard?” Or to curse your luck — but a better question would be “why should things be easy?” Like why are you owed that when the natural state of things is difficulty.
Amjad Masadx.com