Andy Millar’s Reviews > Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha > Status Update

This book is dense and, at times, hand wavey. I’ve really enjoyed large parts of the message that they’re putting forward. Mainly, the parts of mindfulness and self compassion.

Favorite quote: “the curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” - Carl Rogers

Lots to think about. This feels like a path to growth.

Doing the hard work on myself. Deeper than self-improvement things. Certainly deeper than temporary fixes and distractions.

Reinforcement and rewiring are two sides of the same coin; one just has greater resistance than the other. Since our neural pathways are plastic in nature, be careful how you think. With that, any mindset and behavior can be changed, assuming the power of cumulative effects is leveraged.