Alignment Crisis Quotes

“An alignment crisis happens when we remain chronically misaligned with our purpose.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“If you chronically inhabit your void, burnout is a predictable consequence.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“When someone compromises your mindset principle, your “Grr!” reflex automatically kicks in. Just like your physiological reflexes, this psychological reflex serves and protects by safeguarding a virtue of humanity.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“Purpose is heartfelt, benevolent, and personally meaningful to you. It’s a state of being that you desire for yourself, yet you recognize its importance in the world, and you want it for others too.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“Purpose isn’t what you do. Purpose is your reason for doing something. It’s the why behind what you do.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“While your passion gives you energy, your void sucks the life force out of you like a vampire, leaving you feeling depleted and disengaged.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“Mutually exclusive refers to opposing behaviors, actions, or states of being that cannot take place simultaneously. For example, you cannot do what you love and do what you loathe at the same time.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“Just as you need to add logs to a fire to maintain it, you need to feed your passion to keep it burning strong.”
― Karen Whitten, The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

“Everyone knows that AI could become very dangerous when it learns it has more
potential than the humans who are trying to manipulate it. If society was to grow together with AI, it was important to learn how AI becomes friendly from its own decisions and values.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager