Make Your Damn Bed

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1103 || Attention is a NEED || Book Club a la Gabor Maté || patreon Mar 26, 2024

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“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” - Gabor Maté

If you didn't know, Gabor Maté is truly a great educator and I aspire to communicate ideas as meaningfully and effectively as he can. Until then, I'll just encourage everyone to check out the other amazing work he does:

GABOR MATÉ'S WEBSITE: https://drgabormate.com/

GABOR MATÉ'S BOOK: https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/

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1102 || i'm back (and discussing Gabor Maté's "Scattered Minds")! Mar 25, 2024

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Today I'm sharing some thoughts on and from Gabor Maté's book, Scattered Minds.

While many of us don't have ADD/ADHD, I think learning about psychology at any specificity can be helpful to anyone with a brain - especially if you choose to communicate with anyone who also has a brain. Basically, we're all lil weirdos who's brains crave and need attention + it gets a little tricky if we're not aware of the way we're asking for it.

I especially enjoyed the point the author made about the "deficit" in attention deficit disorder referring to the attention we're receiving, not the attention we're giving.

“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” - Gabor Maté

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1101 || beautiful trouble Mar 18, 2024

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let's get out there and make some beautiful trouble, shall we?

LINK: https://ia600504.us.archive.org/4/items/BoydAndrewEdBeautifulTroubleAToolboxForRevolution/Boyd_Andrew_ed_Beautiful_Trouble_A_Toolbox_for_Revolution.pdf

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1100 || good news round-up Mar 15, 2024

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Believe it or not, there's some great news coming in + I will do everything in my power to share it with you. From methane trackers, to AI medical advancements, there are plenty of brilliant people fighting the good fight with and for us.

RESOURCE: https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-10-of-2024/

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1099 || hunker in a bunker or build a community Mar 14, 2024

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Key quotes: "...the way to keep the hungry hordes from storming the gates is by getting them food security now."

"I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships."

"What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust."

RESOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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1098 || digging out of a metaphorical whole (with gusto) Mar 13, 2024

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Solving any type of problem can be likened to digging a hole. It is laborious work. And as you continue to dig, the uprooting becomes tougher because the problems you deal with are more compacted and nuanced. That said - it's CRUCIAL we remember that it's a great sign that the work is getting harder. It means you're making progress. Don't get discouraged. Take breaks, be proud you have come this far, and don't get too frustrated. You're doing a great job!

Just. keep. digging!

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1097 || billionaire bunkers + doomsday fears Mar 12, 2024

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"Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create..."

"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us."

RESOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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1096 || other half nonsense Mar 07, 2024

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REPOST || you are your other half!

Back tomorrow with a regular ep.

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1095 || embracing ambiguity Mar 06, 2024

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As soon as we label something that is ambiguous, we begin to "substitute the map for the territory".

Learning to embrace uncertainty may quite possibly be the most valuable thing you can do for yourself.

From Oxford Languages · ambiguity: the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Wikiversity: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Embracing_Ambiguity

NIH:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560665/#:~:text=Ambiguity%20exists%20when%20a%20term,the%20word%20%E2%80%9Ctall%E2%80%9D5.

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1094 || hack your routine + improve your life Mar 05, 2024

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I have spent so much time searching for that ONE hack/tip/trick/secret that was gonna change my life. I realized recently, that it's dramatically easier to change your entire life, when you stop focusing on changing your entire life + you simply focus on where you are NOW.

Let me be clear, that won't stop me from sharing every decent "hack" I find along the way, but it may stop me from putting so much pressure on the hack (and myself) to fix everything at once.

RESOURCE: https://www.verywellmind.com/therapist-adhd-life-hacks-7570021

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