Part 2: Fighting
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Part 2: Fighting
The Japanese have a beautiful saying for this—a maxim that has survived through atomic bombs, economic collapse, and countless tsunamis: Shikata ga nai. “There’s nothing to be done, so move on.” Move forward. It takes a bit of self-deception to mind-wipe the regret and a truckload of moxie to push through the work of regaining control. But sometime... See more
Bobby Hundreds • This Is Not a T-Shirt
This one, like most battles we fight in life, would be won or lost in our own minds.
David Goggins • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
When danger threatens, the impulse to fight or flee floods the body with ready energy. But survival in the urban jungle requires different skills than the ones our ancestors used in dealing with wild animals. Now the best way to survive is often not to fight or flee, but to flow. This requires thinking skills and self-discipline to overcome the imp
... See moreConnie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
The new warrior is now called to meet a highly ambiguous challenge, often of minimal physicality. Saving habitat and community is a complex, wicked proposition, and the challenge of modern activism is often brutally cognitive. The enemy, if there is one, is not always obvious, and success not always clear. Can the warrior stand up to this kind of c
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