#being-wrong

You Are Not the Sum of Your Parts. Perspective matters because it allows us to move from stuck-ness to growth.

When I was a kid there was a toy I loved, a kaleidoscope of sorts, where you looked in one end and by turning the other end, sifted grains of multi-colored sand to make different patterns. You couldn’t add any new grains, you couldn’t change the colors. The only thing you could do was change the speed with which you turned the one end. We have a tendency, as human beings, to attempt isolating one…

Right and wrong still matter, but judging such doesn't have to be the first and only means of interacting with others and ourselves.

Ask yourself “What do I believe?” and the result will likely be a cascade of memories highlighting actions, thoughts and experiences fitting a particular set of Virtues, or Values-in-action. The whole of this cascade will provide the basis for a rather nice structure or Narrative that you can offer to yourself or another to express who you believe yourself to be. This process also has a rather…

An Issue of Interruption

There are few issues related to dialogue more annoying, more prone to misinterpretation, than interruptions. You’re happily sharing the latest and greatest from your mental repertoire, only to have it suddenly sidelined by a variable completely outside your control. It’s like that moment when walking down a city street, minding your own business, when an invisible crack in the concrete trips you…

Last couple chapters of “The Four Agreements,” focusing on how to identify old and unhealthy agreements to replace them with new ones.

Covering the last couple chapters of “The Four Agreements,” focusing on how to identify old and unhealthy agreements to replace them with new ones. Explore how to accept the whole of our lives, including the suffering, and learn to forgive by not being trapped by the stories and agreements that are limiting our vision of a more expansive and growth-oriented life.

From The Inner Projection of…

22: Shifting Perspective to Avoid Shallow Judgment

  How our ability to shift perspective includes others and our own future selves. Trap is in thinking such stories about intent are anything more than guesswork. Reading from The Atlantic article “Self-Control is Just Empathy with Your Future Self” by Ed Yong. Every perspective is an extension of our own narrative, to get at truth means questioning even what we believe we think is right.

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To live a creative life, we must…

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ― Joseph Chilton Pearce