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Tag: values
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Your Best Thinking Doesn’t Help
When we get ourselves into situations where we are unhappy and we need things to improve, there are three places we can live: in our beliefs, in our thoughts, or…
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Admit it. You are wrong.
When I was in middle school, I showed up to class one day without doing my homework. I rarely did homework because I just couldn’t be bothered to do it,…
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Self-Pity is the Enemy of Integrity
Self-pity makes us live beyond our values, which makes it difficult for us to live with integrity, and therefore impossible to gain peace and serenity.
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Recommended Reading: This is Water
This is a slightly long, but very stimulating read. You can also listen to the original audio. It is David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon…
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Using Values (and Google) to Inform Decision-Making
I am often faced with decisions about whether or not to take on a new challenge. I have been struggling with this kind of decision over the past week. There is an…
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This site is where I put things that I think are interesting, or that I want to remember or document. Some posts are lighthearted, while others are kind of heavy. There is no real over-arching theme, as I just add things as I go along. Hope you find something interesting here!
Shaney Crawford 