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Inner listening, recognition, acknowledgment, and compassion are the roots of recovery and, in this case, recovery from our addiction to thinking. These fundamental processes lay the ground for transformation. Once we’ve recognized the truth of what’s happening in our mind, acknowledged what we’re doing to ourselves, and offered ourselves compassion for our own experience, we can then play with a variety of different contemplations and practices.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
Faith, it seems, does not help girls as much. Why not? One theory is that girls simply use social media more. But Professor Haidt also thinks they are more likely to buy into what he calls the ‘three great untruths’ of social media. The first is that they are fragile and can be harmed by speech and words. Next, that their emotions, and especially their anxieties, are reliable guides to reality. And finally, that society is one big battle between victims and oppressors. All this, he says, is the subtext to social media discourse.
‘Childhood Has Been Rewired’: Professor Jonathan Haidt on How Smartphones Are Damaging a Generation
Fraser Nelson
In this radical vision of the good enough life, our task is not to make the perfect human society, but rather a good enough world in which each of us has sufficient (but never too many) resources to handle our encounters with the inevitable sufferings of a world full of chance and complexity.
Opinion | the Good-Enough Life
nytimes.com
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