What I’ve read:
"Can Trauma Improve Our Psychological Health?"
This is a short article written by Anthony Mancini Ph.D., a a clinical psychologist who studies loss, trauma, resilience, and stressful life events.
Not only are we as humans more resilient than we think, but we also have a great capacity to deal effectively with trauma. Some people even benefit from trauma.
It is a rather short read that will take only a couple of minutes of your time, so I won’t spoil it for you any further.
What I’ve listened to:
"Parkour and Rough Play: Combating Infantilization" - Rafe Kelley on the Jordan Peterson podcast
This is a podcast that I would highly advise every parent to watch or listen to. Also anyone who plans on having children at some point.
However, considering that the guest of this podcast was directed on his life path by a mentor who wasn’t his parent, and he later became a mentor himself, I guess you don’t need to be a parent or plan on becoming one for this to be an important conversation to hear.
Yes, this is a matter that concerns everyone.
Human beings are meant to move and play. Especially in their early years. This play can often be rough, especially among boys. However, as dangerous as rough play may seem, it is incomparably more dangerous to suppress physical play in children.
Rough-and-tumble play can help children (especially young boys) learn self-regulation and control their force levels and emotions. On the other hand, suppression of rough-and-tumble play often leads to those children later becoming young people and adults who are not capable of controlling their aggression and can get violent more easily than the average person.
A thought-provoking discussion that will, depending on the age and surroundings you grew up in, either resonate with you or leave you questioning your previous beliefs on how children should be raised.
Watch/listen here or on any other podcast streaming platform.
What I’ve been thinking about:
Stop wasting time on preparation.
"All the thinking in the world cannot fully prepare you. So I say just go for it, and once you create something then start panicking. You will figure it out. Human beings are amazing that way."
Advice to young writers from Eiichiro Oda, creator of the manga series One Piece, one of the longest-running and best-selling fictional stories of all time across all mediums and genres. Probably a person who is worth listening to when it comes to accomplishing something in your life.
Most people need this reminder quite often. For most of my life, I could’ve used this reminder every single day. I spent months and years in preparation for projects that never came to fruition.
Until I made what turned out to be the best change in my life, I became a bit more reckless. That is, reckless by my previous standards. In reality, I just stopped waiting until I was fully prepared and the conditions were perfect before I took action.
Today, I attribute almost every single good thing that happened in my life to that change.
But I still need this reminder. Maybe not every single day like I used to. But at least once or twice a week. I don’t know how often you need it. But here it is.
Stop waiting. Start doing.
Always and ALL ways look for and FIND the silver lining.