Jennifer Baez
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Jennifer Baez
“Holistic Psychology harnesses the power of choice because choice enables healing.”
Dr. Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Such philosophies emphasize that we humans dwell within, not apart from, the network of felt relations, human and ecological, that shape our lives; and that we have possibilities for living creatively and compassionately amid these relations
Ecological Civilization
Ultimately, the people who choose to champion originality a ones who propel us forward. After spending years studying them and interacting with them, I am struck that their inner experiences a not any different from our own. They feel the same fear, the same doubt, as the rest of us. What sets them apart is that they take action anyway. They know
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“Healing is a daily event. You can’t “go somewhere” to be healed; you must go inward to be healed. This means a daily commitment to doing the work.”
Dr. Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw (Page 1)
Adam Grant • Originals – Adam Grant
Hats protocol is a way to delegate individual roles to individual people. So many of the impact networks I've been involved with have been so good at bringing large numbers of people together to address those complex issues but then when it comes down to the level of actually consistently executing to get things done, they often struggle unless... See more
BanklessDAO • Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
Psychology research is clear that the most reliable way to overcome psychological pain and discomfort is not to avoid it; it’s to gradually dimish the effects of discomfort by systematic exposure. “Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it,” write Haidt and Lukianoff.
In other words, the more you face cognitive friction, the
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“Enough” is not too little.
The idea of having “enough” might look like conservatism, leaving opportunity and potential on the table.
I don’t think that’s right.
“Enough” is realizing that the opposite—an insatiable appetite for more—will push you to the point of regret.
Reputation is invaluable.
Freedom and independence are invaluable.
Family and
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The hardest thing about this was that I loved the work. And I wanted to work hard. But doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate. There is a name for this feeling. Psychologists call it reactance. Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, summed it up well:
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