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Working Theory: Human Potential and Limitations
The solution to chronic stress is not individual Psychology
I’m a big proponent of self-care and other individual tools that we teach as mental health professionals. Yet I’m also acutely aware of its limitations. I think of people back in Manila now who are feeling rage and helplessness over the rising COVID cases. I think of our Asian American community who’s feeling fear due…
Mental Health: What are we striving For?
We are in the age of A.I., where everything is about optimization and increasing capacity. It is easy to mistake functioning like robots as the pillar for being a healed person. But what constitutes technological growth is not the same as human growth. We are living creates who feel, who laugh, who grieve. We feel…
Evolutionary Mechanism Behind Overachieving
I want to be all because I can be all. This is a very appealing narrative. However, instead of arguing the feasibility of attaining perfection, the more important question is why—why want to be all? Answering the question of utility before feasibility allows one to save time and energy. Not knowing why we are doing certain things is…
Nietzsche as Solace During Times of Uncertainty
Amor fati: Lover of Fate. That one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it…” -Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s…
How to Maintain Friendships Without Going Insane
Your ability to connect with people is your superpower. It’s incredible how you have a 50-year-old best friend from China and an 18-year-old pal from New York. Having a social circle that resembles the United Nations is marvelous to have. You get to have friends to enjoy a good meal with everywhere you go. What…
The 42 Books That Shaped My 2019
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.” -Nicolas Carr My Top 5 Books 2019 Simone De Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair (Biography): Recommend this book to anyone interested in how Simone turned from Sartre’s doll to a…