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by afarrell 5y ago
It is incredibly easy and ego-inflationary for people playing the persecutor role to see themselves as rescuers.
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Possibly hypervigilance. Googling for “yoga nidra” and “andrew huberman sleep” should lead you towards parts of solutions. Note that you’ll want to get into a physical exercise routine. Your brain is made of meat and a part of your body.
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> Subconsciously, when you learn a piece by heart, its message penetrates deep inside you. It lies at your fingertips, ready for you to make use of it. Many cultures have long understood this. In Islam, people who memorize the entire Kor
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The app Due on iOS and apple watch is good. > When someone tells me to do something I drop everything and do it. Note that you'll likely want to buy a book or coaching sessions to help you learn about setting boundaries and building
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I agree that this is likely not appropriate to a context where you've got lives and millions of dollars on the line. That's not my point. My points are that: 1. The audience for the article is not program managers at NASA but inst
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However, if you are a person struggling to get into a habit of writing, it is okay if you do not yet have aerospace-grade writing. You can stop worrying and structure all your writing as lists. You don't need to weigh yourself down wit
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If you are worried about a colleague being judgemental, it can be stressful to speak to them -- especially if you are somewhat embarassed. This stress decreases available working memory. This makes it genuinely harder to remember what you d
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It doesn't. It signals a particular point in time to improve the design. Good design is a creative activity and cannot really be forced, only given space to grow.
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This isn't hate. This is indifference and conservation of energy.
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Ooohh I think you’re on to something with utilization. From what I can tell in London, Arsenal stadium also has pretty high utilization. High utilization means that the “market” of people seeking food & urban amenities is higher.
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Marketing is a good framing here. It prompts questions like: How strong is the relationship between Fenway Park and the way that the city of Boston markets itself as a place to continue to live/work/play and pay tax revenue?
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> nobody gives a shit If you start from the assumption that your employees are not motivated to do a good job and so they need to be punished for doing a bad one… I’m not sure what to tell you.
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My uninformed hunch is that the time and attention spent to optimize your payment-processing fees would be better spent either a. Finding additional markets of customers b. Making your product more appealing to increase your conversion rate
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> A small dictatorship of NK can be controlled by a handful of people This is an interesting observation because it is the opposite of Alexis de Tocqueville‘s observation that democracy was well-suited to small states like Athens and Bri
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What if I need a contract because I want to have a meeting-of-the-minds with a customer and then ensure I remember it?
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By believing that the goals are already clear. By believing you don’t need to repeat yourself about what the goals are.
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Very yes. I'm doing a lot of self-development work in to prepare become a team lead someday. This takes enough of my time that I would love to have a part-time role.
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I have only taken a couple graduate-level classes on military power. The answer to your questions is so detail-rich that for me to presume to know if would be the pretense of knowledge. Would you still like my underinformed speculation?
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Chess is a very simple game. All of the rules are known to both players. All of the information is known to both players. It is impossible for a rook to suddenly get stuck in mud or surrender because it feels hungry and confused. It is impo
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Walking in the woods and listening to Berne Brown audiobooks is good.
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Avoiding perfectionism requires accepting flaws and failures. This requires keeping a sense of proportion about the impact of those flaws and the likelihood of those failures. Suppose you notice that your decision-making habits would work w
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Having a common goal is a better one -- Even if it is less dramatic. War and destruction are still bad even if they make for more attention-grabbing stories. This remains true even if an unwillingness to risk war means that a people cannot
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> it is a common scenario where one human suffers and then shares that suffering upon others. All too true His actions over the decades towards potential electoral opposition have put him in a position where the full weight of Russian hi
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Note that his mother barely survived the nazi siege of Leningrad. Lots of Russians have similar intergenerational trauma. That is why he is talking about “denazification”. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropoce
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Unwillingness to be seen as an asshole by anyone makes it impossible to maintain boundaries unless you interact with solely with emotionally stable people. Unwillingness to accidentally act like an asshole makes it impossible to act swiftly
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This is a signal that they have phrased their values well. A good values statement should polarize. It should disgust people whose ability to work effectively would be poisoned by the culture that leadership strives to maintain. A recruitin
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Iceland has solved the cheap electricity problem and has easy access to iron ore from the port of Narvik.
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It does more than nothing, but less than necessary to play rescuer to Ukraine.
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If people caring about you does not matter, that is a sign you're heading towards nihilism. You likely need to go for a walk and choose to do something in the direction of finding a sense of community or spiritual rejuvenation.
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I'm stating two things: 1. I individually thought about if many times over the years. 2. I read or heard other people talking about it over the years.

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