Andy Johns
Former growth executive at Facebook, Twitter, Quora and Wealthfront who left tech to become a mental health advocate; writes the newsletter Clues Dot Life.
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Their wordsReality, in its ultimate nature, is beyond the complete comprehension of any one mind, any one culture, or any one method of inquiry.
↗Facets of Reality cluesdotlife.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Science and the wisdom traditions are complementary angles on reality, not competing explanations.
Their wordsThe traditions are not competing explanations of the same thing. They are complementary angles on something too large for any one angle to exhaust.
↗Facets of Reality cluesdotlife.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Treating science as the master discipline is a philosophical position, not a scientific finding.
Their wordsScience, the assumption goes, is the master discipline, and what cannot be measured is not quite real and unworthy of serious consideration. This is not a scientific finding. It is a philosophical position.
↗Facets of Reality cluesdotlife.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Growing discontent with a successful career means the mountain no longer fits, not that you failed.
Their wordsIt’s not because you’ve failed. The mountain you've been climbing no longer belongs to you. It’s time for you to step off of it. That inner voice of discomfort is your soul speaking to you, saying, “It’s time to let this go. It’s time we start our next season of life.”
↗What happens when you leave your career (and identity) behindcluesdotlife.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Leaving a high-intensity career is a biochemical withdrawal, not only a psychological one.
Their wordsThis transition isn't just psychological for those wired to achieve. It's biochemical. It lives in our bodies. We become conditioned to the intensity of our work, and our nervous system comes to expect its daily dose of thrash and stress.
↗What happens when you leave your career (and identity) behindcluesdotlife.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Healing needs body, mind and spirit together; Western medicine wrongly elevates the mind.
Their wordsThe holy trinity of body, mind, and spirit is true. The deepest sense of release and finding one's way back home to one's true self can only be done by combining all three. Modern medicine in Western cultures unfortunately idolizes one -- the mind. The body and spirit are overlooked and minimized to elevate the mind above all else. Our approach to medicine is a microcosm of the more significant problem: the elevation of ego at the cost of the other two essential parts of a human.
↗Healing through the holy trinity of mind, body, and spiritcluesdotlife.substack.com