Erika
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Erika
The Absent but Implicit:
Persons make meaning of an experience through contrasting it with other experiences, so that in order to distinguish something as a problem we must be contrasting it to some preferred experience. To know the experience of hate we must have some sense of love.
Source: Madigan, S. (2019). Narrative therapy (2nd ed.)
how language shapes the way we think
youtube.comEmotional granularity:
The ability to put our feelings or emotions into words (internally or otherwise) with a high degree of specificity and precision.
Research shows that when we self-identify our unpleasant emotional state in precise and narrow terms, we improve our emotional intelligence, our overall well-being and resilience to the emotion at
... See moreImpatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
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
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury
The two stages of mastery for those with many passions
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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson