Minding our way

I'm betting that the last [https://mindingourway.com/being-unable-to-despair/] three [https://mindingourway.com/see-the-dark-world/] posts [https://mindingourway.com/choose-without-suffering/] have »

Imagine Eve, who works a service industry job. Her manager tells her, at the last minute and without warning, that she has to staff an event tomorrow in a town »

Consider fictional Carol, who has convinced herself that she doesn't need to worry about the suffering of people who live far away. She works to improve her local »

Content note: these next few posts are not going to be for the faint of heart. Sometimes, when people see that their life is about to get a lot harder, »

The last sevenish posts describe the main tools I have for removing guilt-based motivation. The common thread running through them can be summed up as follows: Reside in the »

When I help friends debug their intrinsic motivation, here's a pattern I often bump into: > Well, if I don't actually start working soon, then I& »

Imagine a time when you were feeling guilt-wracked. Maybe a time you hurt a friend badly [https://mindingourway.com/steering-towards-forbidden-conversations/]. Maybe a time you tried to »

Most people don't think they "could" cure Alzheimers by snapping their fingers, and so they don't feel terrible about failing to do this. By »