Diamonds at Your Feet (interview podcast)
There is a particular kind of frustration that belongs almost exclusively to successful people.
There is a particular kind of frustration that belongs almost exclusively to successful people.
I talk with life coach Pauline Victoria about goals versus means, a person whose own journey has brought her to appreciate these things.
The delicate balance between performing under pressure and finding genuine fulfillment.
The book publishing industry is strangely familiar, as it has publishers producing derivative products, and agents pitching derivative ideas.
Much of what I do as a therapist is to free people from these learned rationalizations of how things should be.
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Start by freeing yourself from institutions. This is exactly counter to the institutional trend that we see in the world today. That is to be expected.
You have an inner voice, but it will not argue with you. It will not compete for your attention.
As small as you may think you are, you are not small because these system are not entirely stable, and that’s what your mind is for: to guide these systems. You are the intelligence in the machine.
How we gain knowledge through struggle, danger, and fear. Learning in nature in pursuit of engagement.
As Peter Drucker indicates, happiness, like money, comes when the system is working. You don’t aim for the money and you don’t aim for happiness, you aim to make the system work.
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.