🕊️ The Importance of Peace of Mind - Alain de Botton
El “si quieres puedes” y la humillacion social
“If you are taught that you can do anything and you manage not to do everything, just a little bit and it's not that impressive, you will be crushed.”
“The burden of responsibility is huge on us in the modern world.”
Responsabilidad Individual y Meritocracia
“We live in a world in which we are constantly told that we live in a meritocracy, a world in which if you work hard you strive hard you should be able to get to the top.”
“Winners make their own luck, we're constantly told.”
Trump y la Comprensión de la Humillación
“Trump understood like a genius or rather like a man who understands better than anyone else humiliation, the mechanics of humiliation.”
“He is extremely aware of his own dignity and its absence and its presence."
Contemplación de la Mortalidad y Reevaluación de Valores
“Anyone who's had a brush with death, who's approaching death, who is conscious of death isn't merely in touch with a dispiriting or depressing agent, they're also in touch with something that can rearrangetheir value system.”
“An immense need in all of us to develop a courage to be who we really are."
Naturaleza y Autenticidad
“We need nature like never before, and by Nature I mean the vast Outdoors, the Stars, the oceans, the mountains.”
“There's an immense need... to develop a courage to be who we really are."
Éxito Personal
“The real goal is not to try and be successful everywhere but to make sure that the area in which you're striving to be successful is really the one you care about.
Anything that you really are trying to do properly will swallow up and unbalance your life, and that's fine.”
🧠 How Bodies Store Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
“Trauma is so ubiquitous that if you think you have never seen it, you have not looked.”
“The nature of trauma is that an experience enters into your ears, into your skin, into your eyes, and it goes down into a very primitive part of your brain that automatically interprets what's going on."
"The lingering effect of trauma is that you continue to react to mild stressors as if your life is in danger."
“The big challenge of treating trauma is how do we help people to live in bodies that feel fundamentally safe?"
“Being in a relationship where people can hear you, where you can talk about how badly you feel, where you can talk about your guilt, and where you can start opening up where these feelings come from, how old these feelings are, and how you develop these feelings in response to particular things that happen to you, that was actually quite helpful."
Que bueno este post Jorge. Me ha intersado muchisimo lo que dice Alain the Botton sobre Trump. Nunca lo había mirado desde esa perspectiva. Graciassssss por traer siempre temas tan interesantes.