Integration
Whether in different aspects of life or looking at dispositions through different lenses, I think certain qualities naturally go hand-in-hand.
This page is a stub, created on 2020-11-23 (last updated on 2021-01-24). Its contents are notes on the issues and angles I want to address about this topic.
High-level ideas:
- mind, body, and spirit: intellectual development, bodybuilding, and psychological/emotional growth
- work and non-work life (not work-life balance)
- being fundamentally the same person "at home" and "at work"; manifesting different aspects of yourself in contextually appropriate ways as not being a violation of authenticity
Not all of these qualities are under direct volitional control (they may take years of work to develop), but as I learn more about different ways of looking at and approaching various areas of life, these all seem like variations on the same basic theme:
- growth mindset
- secure attachment
- believing that people are generally doing the best that they can
- believing that people's true interests are fundamentally harmonious
- comfort with uncertainty
- egoism
- rejection of authority / being willful / independence / "being the wilderness" / immunity from conformity/peer-pressure
- believing in liberty / (classical) liberalism / (laissez-faire) capitalism / rejection of central planning
- being process-oriented
- guilt talk (instead of shame talk)
- optimism
- positive identity and negative behaviors (as against negative identity)
- grit/tenacity
Other ideas to consider:
- that episode of Russel Brand's podcast with Brené Brown and that one point about her views leading inexorably to certain political views
- role of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)