Kathrin Radtke
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Kathrin Radtke
The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED
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I have decided to choose my favourite flavour of shit sandwich, instead of waiting for an imaginary life of purpose to find me, free from discomfort, effort and pain.
Are We "Finding Our Purpose" All Wrong?
I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but that till then we're living what the great Swiss psychologist... See more
Oliver Burkeman • What if you never sort your life out?
Dr.K Breaks Down Life Purpose in 20 Minutes
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For feeling in control it’s all about the active vs the passive challenges. Passive challenges are things you didn’t choose yourself, something that live throws at you. Active challenges are things you choose to do yourself like meditating regularly, working out etc. If you can improve the ratio of active vs passive challenges, your perception of control gets better and it’s less important how many challenges there are overall.
De-Reflection: Zooming out from yourself and your situation and seeing your problems on the scale of the narrative of your whole life. This can lead to a feeling of bigger purpose. Paradoxical Intention: Looking forward to things that you dread. Seeing it as a temporary thing that you have to get through to get to the other side.
The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz)
1 - Be Impeccable with Your Word
Words are powerful. Use your words responsibly and express kindness instead of manipulation and harm to yourself and others.
2 - Don’t Take Anything Personally
What others say or do is a reflection of them, not you. Others are going to have their own opinion according to their
... See more“We are an auto domesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don’t follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the “good boy” or “good girl”. […]
The inner Judge uses what is
... See moreMaybe the reason you hate laundry so much is because every time you do it you beat yourself up over being so bad at keeping up with the laundry so you don’t want to do it as often because it makes you feel miserable so the next time you do it you’ll feel bad for not doing the laundry for two weeks and then you are so fucking mean to yourself about
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