I picked Version 2 to start with. I'm ALWAYS more interested in something if I know the person behind the words.
While I don't share your weaknesses, I have plenty other ones that get in my way that I have consistently avoided dealing with and working to mitigate. For me, that's been addiction. I've had long periods where I was sober but not addressing the root causes.
For now, actively working on those issues has lead to a much productive and serene life, even when those issues seemed to have no part in processes. At 62, I feel like I am finally learning to appreciate myself, strengths and weaknesses, alike.
Thank you Chris. You bring such an inviting space to being curious and learning. I am beginning to relate to my weaknesses differently and things are shifting! (One of those is my tendency to make things harder than they need to be). I have been framing the prompt, “what would my future self appreciate?” I am also noticing how all the tidbits of less healthy approaches are interrelated - so a shift in one area is positively impacting others.
And how cool that you got to audition to be a Sesame Street character?! That would be the ultimate experience! Please keep up posted 🤞🏼
Discerning the difference between weaknesses that don’t matter and ones that do —
I LOVE this!
So well said: “For example, two other things I’m bad at are higher math and anything mechanical—and I truly don’t care. Neither of those skills serves a purpose in my life, so I have no need or desire to work on them. But on the other hand, learning more about neuropsychology and executive functioning has been extremely helpful!”
I’m 100% in agreement. I have no idea what Calculus is about and have never needed to know. I’m not going to be fixing my own car today, tomorrow or ever.
There are skills you simply don’t need and it’s okay to ignore them FOREVER.
On the other hand, consciousness is our operating system and if we don’t invest time and energy in learning how to run it properly, it will run most of us into the ground.
I don’t care what system you use to keep your personal OS functional, but you need something because most of us weren’t raised by emotional wizards who taught us deep nervous system regulation and executive functioning.
Also, without getting too political, I also believe most of us are biologically and neurologically undermined by the “medical” system (just a few examples— men often via the nervous system harm of MGM, men and women via heavy metal and immune damage due to pediatric interventions of untested injections into our blood).
Whatever the reasons — atrazine, glyphosate, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury or a toxic mashup of all the above — I think a lot of us suffer from executive functioning deficits that we need major support to overcome. And I think the support is both biological and psycho/neurological.
I use Internal Family Systems as my framework for dealing with the psychological / neurological components of consciousness, and it’s only paid off more and more over the years as I practice it.
But whatever system you choose, the key is:
1. Accept the need for some psychospiritual practice
2. Actually commit to it as a lifelong practice
We can’t (immediately) change the toxic, traumatizing world we were born into, but we CAN make the decision to rehab our bodies and brains and function as optimally as possible despite it.
I picked Version 2 to start with. I'm ALWAYS more interested in something if I know the person behind the words.
While I don't share your weaknesses, I have plenty other ones that get in my way that I have consistently avoided dealing with and working to mitigate. For me, that's been addiction. I've had long periods where I was sober but not addressing the root causes.
For now, actively working on those issues has lead to a much productive and serene life, even when those issues seemed to have no part in processes. At 62, I feel like I am finally learning to appreciate myself, strengths and weaknesses, alike.
Thanks for both versions. Sylvia
Thank you Chris. You bring such an inviting space to being curious and learning. I am beginning to relate to my weaknesses differently and things are shifting! (One of those is my tendency to make things harder than they need to be). I have been framing the prompt, “what would my future self appreciate?” I am also noticing how all the tidbits of less healthy approaches are interrelated - so a shift in one area is positively impacting others.
And how cool that you got to audition to be a Sesame Street character?! That would be the ultimate experience! Please keep up posted 🤞🏼
Discerning the difference between weaknesses that don’t matter and ones that do —
I LOVE this!
So well said: “For example, two other things I’m bad at are higher math and anything mechanical—and I truly don’t care. Neither of those skills serves a purpose in my life, so I have no need or desire to work on them. But on the other hand, learning more about neuropsychology and executive functioning has been extremely helpful!”
I’m 100% in agreement. I have no idea what Calculus is about and have never needed to know. I’m not going to be fixing my own car today, tomorrow or ever.
There are skills you simply don’t need and it’s okay to ignore them FOREVER.
On the other hand, consciousness is our operating system and if we don’t invest time and energy in learning how to run it properly, it will run most of us into the ground.
I don’t care what system you use to keep your personal OS functional, but you need something because most of us weren’t raised by emotional wizards who taught us deep nervous system regulation and executive functioning.
Also, without getting too political, I also believe most of us are biologically and neurologically undermined by the “medical” system (just a few examples— men often via the nervous system harm of MGM, men and women via heavy metal and immune damage due to pediatric interventions of untested injections into our blood).
Whatever the reasons — atrazine, glyphosate, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury or a toxic mashup of all the above — I think a lot of us suffer from executive functioning deficits that we need major support to overcome. And I think the support is both biological and psycho/neurological.
I use Internal Family Systems as my framework for dealing with the psychological / neurological components of consciousness, and it’s only paid off more and more over the years as I practice it.
But whatever system you choose, the key is:
1. Accept the need for some psychospiritual practice
2. Actually commit to it as a lifelong practice
We can’t (immediately) change the toxic, traumatizing world we were born into, but we CAN make the decision to rehab our bodies and brains and function as optimally as possible despite it.
So let’s do this!
What books or other resources did you use to address your executive functioning?