How are you complicit in creating the conditions of your lives that you say you don’t want? While this sounds like a bit of a riddle, more often than we want to admit, we are taking part in the things that make us mad, sad, or unhappy. In an interview titled The Coach with the Spider…
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Live an Antifragile Way of Life
Antifragility comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his book, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCtSzpYrs4 Being antifragile is different from being resilient or robust. Being resilient or robust means that you bounce back quickly from disturbances. As an example, resiliency is a building that is designed to stand up to hurricane-force winds. Antifragility moves…
Be the Documentarian of Your Life
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself. Daniel Dennett In Dennett’s book, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, he suggests that we need to build up our cognitive toolkit to help solve wicked problems. He expands on this in this interview in Brain Pickings.…