“There’s some credit due to anybody who made it out of the suburbs because that’s a creeping oppression that you don’t realize.”
The standard psychological methods for dealing with everyday worry are pretty simple. But just because they’re simple and relatively well-known doesn’t mean we don’t need reminding to use them from time-to-time.
So here is a five-step plan called “The Peaceful Mind” that was actually developed by psychologists specifically for people with dementia (Paukert et al., 2013). Because of this it has a strong focus on the behavioural aspects of relaxation and less on the cognitive. That suits our purposes here as the cognitive stuff (what you are worrying about) can be quite individual, whereas the behavioural things, everyone can do.
Good People and Good Things
- Steven Soderbergh in general, but especially lately, and especially his hard-boiled twitter novella. “The smart move is to pull up stakes and head for the nearest cliché. But you don’t.”
- Ryan North discovering the Tropicana twitter account and the epithet “TropiMomma”
- White Lung playing a song in the middle of nowhere. #1 band, #1 Canadian export.
- Butter Team’s Weekend Beats Vol. 44, a perfect 30 minute mix.
- Comedian Ron Funches
Lyrical Explosion No. 12, Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971), 1918. (Magnelli Collection, Meudon, France)
Via.
(via klappersacks & zombienormal)
He’s the greatest.
10. Being right is not always the right thing to be. Kareem, my man, learn to step away. You think being honest immunizes you from the consequences of what you say. Remember Paul Simon’s lyrics, “There’s no tenderness beneath your honesty.” So maybe it’s not that important to win an argument, even if you “know” you’re right. Sometimes it’s more important to try a little tenderness.
