Trust yourself. And (l)earn to.
There’s only one you - trust it, but don’t be naive. Self-trust isn’t blind; it’s forged by confronting your own missteps. Find your truth, refine it, and build a trust that endures.
- Overreach: Blind confidence, ignoring your own blind spots.
- Shortfall: Distrusting yoruself, silencing your own insights.
- On point: Trust yourself with purpose - question, learn, and strengthen as you go.
Thinkers: Kierkegaard (“The Sickness Unto Death”), Jung (individuation), Angelou, Emerson
Give and Take Sanity Boosts
Recharge or burn out. Find your sanity boosts—whatever keeps your mind from fraying. Share the charge with others, but don’t get lost in distractions.
- Overreach: Escaping reality.
- Shortfall: Ignoring the need for a break.
- On point: Refresh often, but don’t retreat forever.
Thinkers: William James, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Carl Jung, Virginia Woolf.
Relentlessly forge good habits of thought.
Without discipline, thoughts weaken. Strengthn your mind with grit - push it, sweat it, make it endure. True resilience isn’t passive; it’s built by grinding out habits that last.
- Overreach: Obsessively questioning every thought, leading to exhaustion or paralysis.
- Shortfall: Letting throughts drift unchecked, intentionally not recovering from a loss in clarity.
- On point: Using metacognition to name and then honing habits of thought.
Thinkers: Seneca (the roman stoic), Aurelius (“Meditations”), Nietzsche (Amor Fati), William James.