Self Awareness

Self Awareness

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Your inner voice significantly influences your quality of life, and while it can motivate you, psychologist Ethan Kross warns it can also lead to negative thought cycles, or "chatter," but his research offers tools to regain control and foster a positive mindset.
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5mins
What happens when the boundaries of “you” disappear? James Fadiman, PhD, Jamie Wheal, and Matthew Johnson, PhD explore how supported experiences with psychoactive drugs can dissolve identity and reveal a deeper reality.
Unlikely Collaborators
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The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.
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10mins
“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there's a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”
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How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
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The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.
If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.
John Templeton Foundation
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We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again. 
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
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3mins
People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, either associative or distinctive thinking will shape your sense of self.
John Templeton Foundation
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There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.
John Templeton Foundation
mental chatter
6mins
Half our day is spent not living in the moment. Here’s how to change that.
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.
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Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?