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Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
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stevia333k's review against another edition
Between the 15-16 minute marks, she said the majority of people listening to this book do not live under threat of institutionalized violence & oppression, in a sense that she's centering these people in her work.
I am a survivor of the school to prison pipeline & also someone who's been hospitalized in a psych ward. Due to the way the gang culture works in my state, if I'm ever in prison, even without a conviction, I will be sent into solitary confinement in order to protect me from the gangs. And with my disabilities this will most likely be a death sentence. So this book is not meant for me.
That being said, while I think Apartheid still has an impact on how South Africa works today (that the past is not completely cut off from today even though it's a different dimension), she was on a roll about how time dimensions work & how embodiment can result in bigotry.
Also apparently, people just run on autopilot with their feelings? This is kind of strange to me as someone who's been in therapy since I was 6, and has needed to make the fuse longer because of how quickly me being triggered would result in "scenes people couldn't live down for years". Maybe that's a binary, but it's still strange seeing how people of "normalcy" work.
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PS: regarding normalcy
Anyways, here's a video about how "majorities" are kind of bullshit when you consider many layers of bias https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCv7surx3bM
To which I say the use of everybody by the British monarchy, is an extension of the we pronouns of monarchs. In other words, the conflation of the overton window... lol sigh
I am a survivor of the school to prison pipeline & also someone who's been hospitalized in a psych ward. Due to the way the gang culture works in my state, if I'm ever in prison, even without a conviction, I will be sent into solitary confinement in order to protect me from the gangs. And with my disabilities this will most likely be a death sentence. So this book is not meant for me.
That being said, while I think Apartheid still has an impact on how South Africa works today (that the past is not completely cut off from today even though it's a different dimension), she was on a roll about how time dimensions work & how embodiment can result in bigotry.
Also apparently, people just run on autopilot with their feelings? This is kind of strange to me as someone who's been in therapy since I was 6, and has needed to make the fuse longer because of how quickly me being triggered would result in "scenes people couldn't live down for years". Maybe that's a binary, but it's still strange seeing how people of "normalcy" work.
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PS: regarding normalcy
Anyways, here's a video about how "majorities" are kind of bullshit when you consider many layers of bias https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCv7surx3bM
To which I say the use of everybody by the British monarchy, is an extension of the we pronouns of monarchs. In other words, the conflation of the overton window... lol sigh
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual assault, and Racism
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