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Self-compassion has six elements: self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness, with less self-judgment, isolation and overidentification.
Last stated 12 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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The first component of self-compassion is mindfulness: the willingness to turn toward and be aware of pain.
Last stated 10 May 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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Self-compassion is a productive way to approach distressing thoughts and emotions, and it supports mental and physical well-being.
Last stated 12 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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Self-compassion is being supportive toward yourself when you suffer, whether from your own mistakes or from life's challenges.
Last stated 12 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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The common worries that self-compassion is weak, selfish, self-indulgent or undermines motivation are myths.
Last stated 12 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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Everyone needs a balance of fierce and tender self-compassion, like yin and yang.
Last stated 10 May 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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Self-compassion can be fierce as well as tender: protecting yourself, speaking up and taking action.
Last stated 10 May 2022 · 4 years ago
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Kristin Neff
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Kindness, fairness and being a good friend all stem from empathy.
Last stated 31 Jan 2016 · 11 years ago
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Ken Norton
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Human self-awareness makes mere survival feel unsatisfying rather than sufficient.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Maria Popova
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Same subject: empathy
Abolitionists who felt the slave's wrongs were blind to the equal legal wrongs of their own mothers, wives and sisters
Last stated c. 1898
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Same subject: empathy
Assuming stupidity rather than malice changes the response: empathy and clarity instead of defensiveness.
Last stated 16 Nov 2024 · 2 years ago
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Shane Parrish
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Same subject: empathy
Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.
Last stated 12 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
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Lex Fridman
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Same subject: motivation
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Last stated 10 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
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Cate Hall
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Same subject: motivation
A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.
Last stated 19 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
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Aravind Srinivas
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Same subject: motivation
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
Last stated c. 1651
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Thomas Hobbes
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Same subject: behavioural science
A belief system combining cosmic stakes, privileged knowledge, personal vocation and an imperative to act can license extraordinary behavior when it conflicts with ordinary constraints.
Last stated 17 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Venkatesh Rao
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Same subject: behavioural science
A cancellation-reason drop-down measures list order rather than reasons: randomise the options and every one of them gets picked equally.
Last stated 25 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Jason Cohen
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Same subject: behavioural science
A decision cannot be judged by its outcome, because good decisions fail through no fault of the decider and bad ones succeed by luck.
Last stated 9 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Gary Klein