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1614 || how to do a cost/benefit analysis on your habits
How do we hold space for two contradictory ideas? How do we hold space for the reality that things won't always make sense?
We can't control everything, but we can build up our "tolerance for distres…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
1613 || running from your shadow makes it bigger
"Living systems theory has been so helpful to me. I think there is a drive within living systems to complexify, to wake up—there is an evolutionary movement. I speak out of the love and excitement ge…
Published on 3 weeks ago
1612 || the great unraveling
Today we talk about what Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone's book Active Hope. Specifically the three stages of dealing with the current crisis.
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
1611 || are we blaming the wrong guy?
America has a habit of blaming poor people + immigrants for the problems that policy makers create. Stop letting the oppressors scapegoat the oppressed, and start focusing your outrage on the people …
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
1610 || break some rules for justice
"Perhaps the greatest failure of liberal democracies is their historical failure to successfully protect the vital economic and security interests of their less advantaged citizens through their inst…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
1609 || how do you know?
How do we really know anything? Well, it starts by connecting with what you feel.
Faron Sage's article: "How Do We Make Heads or Tails of What's Going On?"
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Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
1608 || when rules are meant to be broken
It's that time again, where we take a step back and check in with the cop in our heads.
“One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will dep…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
1606 || buck what society says
Your brain does what is reliable, not what is best. It does what is safe, not what is productive. Our culture has shaped each and every one of us through rules + repetition.
How has society tampered …
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
1605 || habit hacking
optimize your cues + your environment to create + reinforce better habits + discourage your "not so good" ones.
Time cues < >
Intrinsic motivation > external rewards
Tweak your environment to reduce the …
Published on 4 weeks ago
1604 || old dog, new tricks
You can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks - if you use a couple of old ones.
Habits are formed and reinforced through repetition, salience (how much it stands out), time, intensity, specificity. …
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago