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the principle of self-acceptance – you learn not to rate or evaluate yourself, but to appreciate that you are made up of hundreds of different facets that are constantly changing, and defy any sort of generalized, global assessment of yourself based on these.

Beat Low Self-Esteem With CBT

Wilding, Christine;Palmer, Stephen

In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions, and not a ‘party line’.

Politics and the English Language | the Orwell Foundation

orwellfoundation.com

“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it turns out, is not a matter of discovering laws: it is essentially a question of design. And the reason why even the world’s richest countries are still making us all feel the burn is because the last two hundred years of industrial activity have been based upon a linear industrial system whose design is inherently degenerative. The essence of that industrial system is the cradle-to-grave manufacturing supply chain of take, make, use, lose: extract Earth’s minerals, metals, biomass and fossil fuels; manufacture them into products; sell those on to consumers who – probably sooner rather than later – will throw them ‘away’. When drawn in its simplest form, it looks something like an industrial caterpillar, ingesting food at one end, chewing it through, and excreting the waste out of the other end. This”

Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth

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