Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
While you may or may not have sensed the specific energy centers that I have just described, you’re probably familiar with most of the issues that they govern. For example, you may have experienced terror at some point in your life and felt a sense of shakiness in your legs and a lack of groundedness. Conversely, you may have at one time felt a dee
... See morefrom In Touch by John J. Prendergast
A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice. Fearlessness is courage taken to its extreme.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.5
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
- Presumably, parents in the past cared as much about their kids' safety as parents today do. But they took far fewer precautions than parents today, and exerted far fewer controls over kids' behavior. Perhaps they thought it was important that children learn to take risks in order to develop courage. Or perhaps they thought that getting into scrapes... See more
from The Organization Kid by David Brooks
But another Pew Research Center study shines a harsher black light on masculinity. Researchers asked women and men where they found meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction. They found women found happiness through multiple sources, but men did not.
from A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men by Carlyn Beccia
- The high centrality participants, Sievers and his coauthors wrote, were much more “likely to adapt their own brain activity to the group,” and “played an outsized role in creating group alignment by facilitating conversation.” But they didn’t merely mirror others—rather, they gently led people, nudging them to hear one another, or to explain themse... See more
writing a book is nothing more than a heroic act of unification. How does this work? Well, the book has a spine. A dharma. But you don’t know what its dharma is until you begin to write it. Forget about all the things you said to yourself about your book at the beginning of the project—or what you told your editor, or what you wrote in your brillia
... See morefrom The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
- Good writing is meditative writing. It’s a polished and cohesive train of thought, devoid of superfluous babble. If intrusive thoughts make their way into your writing and you neglect to edit them out, your work will suffer. Quality writing does not arise from a stream of consciousness or absent-mindedness. It’s a practice of meditating on a specif... See more
from Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility by Jen Hitze
- Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist... What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible bu... See more
from Untamed by Glennon Doyle by glennon doyle