We can find ourselves struggling in so many different ways as we join and rejoin the fight to end oppression and build a more just world. Our own brains, which are not perfect machines, can contribute in multiple ways to personal and interpersonal struggles to stay in the fight, and to keep coming back to it. For example, we may experience a tendency to view ourselves as doing worse than others, even (or especially) others in our own communities, at tackling a difficult, complex, entrenched, historical, and global problem: ending oppression. How do your communities practice holding each other's inner critics with less collapse and more compassion, energy, and commitment?
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
[image description: A heart with a tear running down its cheek stands bent forward slightly and holding its forehead in one hand. The heart says, "I'm the worst at fighting oppression." Another nearby heart observes with a concerned affect. Text reads: "Worse-than-Average Effect: Tending to see ourselves as worse than others at challenging tasks."]
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