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Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection
Prioritizing and setting boundaries for self-care
Practicing mindfulness and presence
Reconcile ambition with self-improvement
We're obsessed with being ourselves, being authentic, being unique. This is sad because what if you find that you are just the average, boring, mean person.
It's better to emulate someone you look up to. If in doubt, ask what your role model would do.
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Too self-focused
In the self-help world, it is very common to say that you need to work on yourself before you can work on the world. It's not a stupid thing to say.
But, people are becoming too self-absorbed, looking only on themselves and forgetting to take an interest in the people around them. We actua...
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Constant self-optimization
The problem with focusing on constant self-optimization is that it is a process without end. We can never say we've reached the full version of ourselves. We may feel that we are not (and can never be) good enough. We're never allowed to be happy and satisfied.
Also, it's ...
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Something concrete we can change
We should stop trying to adjust people to circumstances that are not worth being adjusted to. If people suffer from stress in an organization, try to look at how work is organized and change it, instead of referring them to something like stress coaching, or psychotherapies or mi...
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Self-optimization and depression
In a way, depression is our way of reacting, withdrawing, and possibly metaphorically recharging our batteries.
There's so much pressure in modern society to perform and be productive, to be efficient, that we don't get time to recharge. This leads to sadness and loss of e...
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Self-improvement and happiness
- Be interested in something beyond yourself. Go into the world instead of looking at yourself.
- Try not to be so obsessed with happiness. Life is not just about being happy.
- If you pursue valuable and meaningful activities, you will attain happiness as a side effect more tha...
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Find a role model
Who is your role model?
Have you ever thought of who inspires you do become a better version of yourself?
If you want to be more assertive, find someone you admire who's assertive. Try to strike up a conversation with them and ask them how they do it.
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Using self-distancing to help reflection
Self-distancing may be beneficial to help in the reflection process.
- Ask yourself what advice you would give someone else if they were in your situation?
- Avoid first-person language when considering your performance (Ask yourself, "what could you...
Consider posting less
If you find yourself posting a lot, ask what specifically you're seeking and if there are other ways that would leave you feeling better.
It's worthwhile to consider what you are posting to the world. Posting stories, tweeting, and messaging lead to back-and-forth response...
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