Weekly Highlights #37
The content we consume can consume us, if we are not mindful enough. In this period of information overload and analysis paralysis, The ‘Weekly Highlights’ collects the 3, most valuable pieces of content I have come across during the week, and packages them in a single page, with some notes and key highlights, so to foster mindful and intentional consumption of content, which can truly add value to our life.
Intentional content consumption, in an era in which the amount of content we expose ourselves to can consume us, if we are not mindful enough. 🐘
Dermatillomania (skin picking) is a response to anxiety. It has to do with how anxiety is handled. Most common among introverts, dermatillomania has its roots in the feeling of loneliness, frustration, fear, self-disgust which some people tend to manifest through this behaviour, instead of, say, screaming or expressing their inner discomfort through words.
Overcoming dermatillomania requires an intervention at the root cause of it:
recognize the level of solitude and vulnerability we feel. Acknowledge the fact that this attitude has a lot to do with our feelings of fear over the world (losing our job, being judged from others, etc.).
We need to find a better way of being worried. We need someone who understands and listens.
Recognize that this is a very established tendency, and that it has its foundations in feeling vulnerable and in solitude.
“If all you watch is self improvement videos, and all you read is self improvement books, and self improvement is your main hobby, it’s almost as if you’re obsessing about having the perfect tool for a war while there’s a war out there going on. ”
The best way to get better at things in life is by doing them. Reading hundreds of books about social interactions while not practicing going out and interacting in real life is a waste of time, in case we want to get better at it, as opposed to merely understanding the theory behind human beings and social species.
Quote of the week
“We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.”
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