Jul 28, 2022
When it comes to the story of your life, your brain is the most unreliable narrator there is. It wants to tell you that you did it wrong in the past, that it’s too hard in the present, and that you can’t have what you want in the future.
But it turns out your brain is wrong about all of this.
Your brain is...
Jul 25, 2022
You make thousands of choices every day—when you get up, what you eat, how you move your body, who you love, how you treat people, how happy you are—all just optional ways to live your life. Nothing you choose makes you better or worse, but each choice takes you somewhere specific.
When you understand that your own...
Jul 21, 2022
Othering is a way of putting distance between yourself and others. It often involves seeing others as different than you in negative and insufficient ways.
But we can also “other” ourselves by telling ourselves that we aren’t like other people, that we can’t be like them, that we can’t create what they have,...
Jul 14, 2022
Whether we know it or not, we are all deciding our lives. Every decision we make, one at time, moment by moment, add up to create the reality of our lives.
This means that we are never stuck where we are. If we are always deciding our life, that means that we always also have the power to decide something else...
Jul 7, 2022
You are good.
You aren’t good because of what you do. You aren’t good because of the results you create in your life. You aren’t good because of your habits, your choices, or your behaviors.
I mean you are good. Fundamentally.
And as a human with a brain, it’s really easy to forget this. Our brains almost...