Tag: Freedom
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Unknowing Yourself
I had never thought about ‘unknowing yourself’ as part of the process of getting to know yourself – or even more important being more yourself. It is a concept that I heard from Lori Gottlieb. She says, “But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go…
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Confession and Identity
I don’t know what you think about when you hear the word Confession. Maybe you picture something that happens in church with a priest. Maybe it’s just a tough conversation with your friend. Maybe you write it down. Confession though is a great affirmation of identity. Think about what happens…
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Love Deeply
I was listening to a podcast recently and was struck by this one comment (well, I was struck by the whole thing, but this one comment really stood out to me). If you have never experienced pain, you have not experienced or learned to love deeply. The idea is that…
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My Student Identity
I miss my student identity. Well, I miss the learning and the studying. I don’t miss the deadlines. I don’t miss paying for school. I don’t miss studying and researching with expectations. I don’t miss the drive up to the university. I don’t miss needing to be in the library…
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The Dissatisfaction Gene
I heard this line yesterday. If you are an American, we might be predisposed to The Dissatisfaction Gene. You can take a look at our history and see that at almost every turn, things happened because someone was dissatisfied. The dissatisfaction lead to… – Leaving Europe to find “freedom.” –…
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Technology Expands Human Freedom
Every technology from the cotton gin to the macbook pro that I’m typing this blog post on – has given us a tremendous amount of freedom and ability. Before the cotton gin, a man could separate a pound of the cotton from the seeds in a day. The cotton gin…
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Hiding Behind a Blog
You know what they say about opinions right? I love the ability and the freedom that we have when we blog. We can express ideas that we might be working on. We can share our opinions with our readers. We can say whatever we want – and hopefully we’re adding…
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Circumvent Identity Formation
You can circumvent the identity formation process of someone else by not allowing them to freely explore and express their own identity. When you superimpose your standards or tell someone who to be and how to act, you condition them and teach them to perform. It is not identity forming. …
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Shame and Freedom
Living in a culture of shame means to live in secret. It means hiding and showing a facade to everyone. It means faking it through most of life and even through most of your relationships. It’s putting on a good face and honestly lying to everyone. Living in a culture…
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Subtext and Mediocrity
The ideas in the title has nothing to do with each other, but I want to share with you the subtext of the story that a friend was sharing tonight about Mediocrity ergo Subtext and Mediocrity. He did not share it in the way that I’m about to. These just…