Friday greetings! I am writing this quickly while my mom who’s in town holds my baby. The other two are at “school.” TGIF.
Cognitive Dissonance: when the center cannot hold
I still have one post left to write in my productivity series, but took a small detour to muster up this long-delayed statement on “cognitive dissonance,” the root of many smart person evils.
Cognitive Dissonance Ruins Everything
Bonus points: If you have an interesting instance of cognitive dissonance lurking in your life, I’d love to hear about it - just click reply and tell all.
It’s hard (maybe impossible) to be both super “productive” and super “mindful”
I did produce the penultimate productivity series post, too:
Productivity & Mindfulness: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
If you’ve been struggling to make sense of the not-quite-contradictory-but-definitely-not-consonant advice out there to maximize productivity while also cultivating mindfulness, this one’s for you.
Good links:
✒ Wonderful collection of tidbit writing advice via Matt Rudnitsky
😖 4 Questions That Will Improve Your Emotional Intelligence if you need to do a little self-coaching at the moment (by Nick Wagnall)
👪 Staggeringly accurate & intelligent description of the parenting experience by Agnes Callard
Help me out: What does being “extremely online” mean to you?
I’m working on something for that writing class about how it can make a big difference for one’s therapist/counselor/philosopher-life coach to be “extremely online.”
After all, many people (especially young ones) spend hours and hours socializing online every day. Life’s problems and possibilities arise specifically in the online context continuously for them.
Have you heard this phrase “extremely online?” What does it mean to you? Please report back 🙏
Cheers,
Pamela