The heart of the ontological approach is that how you are being in your conversations and relationships (with yourself and others) determines how well you achieve the outcomes that truly matter to you.
Shifting your way of being creates new possibilities and better outcomes.
When all goes well, we feel solid and assured. We have continuity, meaning and purpose.
This is ‘ontological security’, usually playing just beyond our awareness, providing inner strength and a capacity to deal with whatever is thrown at us.
#ontologicalsecurity 🧵
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The imperfections in my train journey back to the Shire permit a tactical diversion to the only shop in the world that I know stocks plum jerkum.
'Known to put some folk on their backs and to leave um feelin far from well nex mornin.'
A break in my journey today allows me to indulge in some plum jerkum although this maker has gussied up their branding and now calls it plum wine which is technically correct but emotionally immoral, as if we were to start calling cider 'apple wine' (like Germans apfelwein).
HOW TO DARE TO LOOK OUR IGNORANCE IN THE FACE AND NOT BE ASHAMED TO BE HUMAN.
Be aggressively and proudly human.
It's ok if it doesn't make sense/you don't know.
It's ok to have a heart and gut; to listen to them (you can learn how). They're great sources of optionality.
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“A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allow you to put there.
You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”
— NNT, The Black Swan
When you are stuck on something, when time is short and the pressure is on, the hugely valuable but possibly counterintuitive action is to put it down and go for a walk.
Solutions, breakthroughs emerge.
@giveashitnature What are your thoughts on using bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) such as 'mosquito dunks' in traps, particularly in endemic dengue areas where mosquitoes are more than just an annoyance?
Burnout comes from trying to give what you don't possess; giving out what doesn't grow naturally within you that is renewed organically.
(paraphrasing Parker J. Palmer)
The problem with being away from the land is that the land gets away from you. Ah well, the mornings are cool and the body needs more #agriculturalyoga