<aside> ๐ A collection of the 3 Pieces of Content I've found the most valuable this week on the internet, with some reflections, key lessons, and why they can add value to our lives. Plus, one thought-provoking quote. I believe in intentionally choosing the content we consume, especially on the internet, in an era in which the amount of content we expose ourselves to can consume us, if we are not mindful enough. And this weekly collection of content may be that mindful place of content absorption.
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Planning for the future and maintaining presence in the moment? This seems counterintuitive or even dichotomous. But it's not. In this video, Eckhart Tolle offers a valuable perspective on keeping a balance between future and present, which is based on being emotionally detached from the future plans, while looking at them merely as events that will happen, or as the direction we would like to go towards at the moment of the decision or planning phase.
You can plan for the future while being rooted in the present moment.
The key here is to let go of feeling or experiencing complete emotional immersion in the future, as this brings anxiety and rumination, which detach yourself from the present moment and create useless (often negative) thoughts.
The main role of anxiety is to make us act in the present in order to get closer to something we want to reach in the future.
"Too many minds."
"Some things in life need careful consideration."
"Some require just a brief, passing thought."
"Some deserve no attention at all."
It's only a problem if it's a problem.
Phd Pietro Boselli dives into a very discussed-upon question particularly in the self-improvement world: how to not care about what other people think? He does so by going in depth into the evolutionary reasons for which we actually care about what others think of us, and refraining from shallow and thoughtless arguments, to eventually end up in a rather universal solution: balance.
Balance which resides in the way we process our thoughts of what others think, because thoughts drive feelings, and the only way to "not care about what others think" is, probably, to not let what others think affect us, personally.
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."
"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
โ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations