HeyJaredRecipes for Success by Dr. Srini Pillay
Unlock Your Potential: Weekly Insights and Guides from a Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist and Top 20 "Mover and Shaker" in Leadership Development in the World
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Pushed Back and Pushed Down (opens the original)
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I consider myself ambitious and hard-working. Yet I think I have been remarkably tone-deaf to the signals that this is hardly enough to lead a successful life.When you are sensorily deluded in this way, when you keep seeing obstacles as things you simply have to push through, you keep pushing. You adapt. You endure. You do whatever you can to survive life’s challenges.And often, you do survive.But somewhere along the way, without realizing it, you may start playing the survival game.And survival
The Conspiracy of Darkness (opens the original)
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Fear has always had an advantage.A beautiful possibility may invite our attention, but danger can seize it. Somewhere in our evolutionary inheritance lies an understandable preference for noticing what might harm us before attending to what might delight us. What once helped human beings survive has acquired a peculiar value in the modern world.Our ancient sensitivity to danger now lives among industries, technologies and institutions capable of discovering, measuring and amplifying whatever kee
The End of the Doom and Gloom Era (opens the original)
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Somewhere between the intelligent machine, the vanishing job, the next war and the fractures appearing between us, we seem to have acquired the peculiar conviction that the future is chiefly a place where terrible things happen. The concerns themselves are real. Artificial intelligence may transform work in ways we do not yet understand. Wars destroy lives with an indifference to our theories about progress. Social divisions can make people who inhabit the same streets seem as though they occupy
Making the Darkness Conscious (opens the original)
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In my first essay, I proposed moving from an Age of Enlightenment to an Age of Illumination. But there is a paradox hidden inside that proposition.We tend to imagine illumination as adding more light: more knowledge, insight, wisdom, perhaps spirituality.Carl Jung suggested something more unsettling. Illumination may require us to enter the darkness.For Jung, psychological development involved individuation: bringing conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves into a more integrated whole. Hi
Managing Existential Despair (opens the original)
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What the Enlightenment gave usLong before the Enlightenment, Aristotle asked what constitutes a good human life. His answer centered on eudaimonia, often translated as happiness but better understood as flourishing: living in a way that develops and expresses our highest human capacities.More than two thousand years later, the Enlightenment helped shift Western intellectual life toward reason, evidence, scientific inquiry, individual freedom, and human progress. Kant captured its spirit in two w
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