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“The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Success depends on psychological safety. At Google, members of teams with high levels of psychological safety were less likely to leave their jobs, brought in more revenue, and were rated effective twice as often by executives. MIT researchers who studied team performance came to the same conclusion: simply grouping smart people together doesn’t guarantee a smart team. Online and off, the best teams discuss ideas frequently, do not let one person dominate the conversation, and are sensitive to one another’s feelings.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“One of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame about the way they behaved during a traumatic episode, whether it is objectively warranted (as in the commission of atrocities) or not (as in the case of a child who tries to placate her abuser).”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.”
― Rob Sheffield, The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks