The Replacing Guilt series

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Preliminaries

• Half-assing it with everything you've got
• Failing with abandon

1. Fighting for something

• Replacing guilt
• The stamp collector
• You're allowed to fight for something
• Caring about something larger than yourself
• You don't get to know what you're fighting for

2. Drop your obligations

• "Should" considered harmful
• Not because you "should"
• Your "shoulds" are not a duty

3. Half monkey, half god

• Working yourself ragged is not a virtue
• Rest in motion
• Shifting guilt
• Don't steer with guilt
• Update from the suckerpunch
• Be a new homunculus
• Not yet gods
• Where coulds go
• Self compassion
• There are no "bad people"
• Residing in the mortal realm

4. The dark world

• Being unable to despair
• See the dark world
• Choose without suffering
• Detach the grim-o-meter
• Simply locate yourself
• Have no excuses
• Come to your terms
• Transmute guilt into resolve
• The best you can
• Dark, not colorless

5. Fire within

• Stop trying to try and try
• There is no try
• Obvious advice
• The art of response
• Confidence all the way up
• Desperation
• Recklessness
• Defiance
• How we will be measured

Related

• On caring
• The value of a life
• Moving towards the goal
• Self-signaling the ability to do what you want
• Productivity through self-loyalty

Conclusion.