“Self-compassion, on the other hand, treating yourself with kindness, respect, honesty and encouragement after a failure, is associated with increased motivation and better outcomes”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
“The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“There are thousands of potential alternatives to the story my mind has offered as an explanation for this.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
“The disruptor’s journey is always the same. First, they laugh at you, then they ignore you, and then you win.”
― Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A handbook for entrepreneurs
― Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A handbook for entrepreneurs
“Feelings are often accompanied by urges. Those urges are suggestions, nudges, persuasions telling us to try this or that to relieve the discomfort that we feel or to seek the reward that we anticipate. While those urges can be powerful, we don’t have to do what they say.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
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