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Smart People Do 11 Things To Get Their Life Back On Track Without Caring Who Stays Or Leaves

Smart People Do 11 Things To Get Their Life Back On Track Without Caring Who Stays Or Leaves

Published by Jenni Sidey

Personal growth can be a relatively elusive topic, but some research, like a study from New Ideas in Psychology, breaks it down into simpler terms. Self-awareness, openness, courage, autonomy, and full responsibility for one’s self care are the main tenets of personal growth, and while they take time and effort to build up, they can truly transform a person’s life and existence. Especially when it comes to taking responsibility, in periods of crisis or stagnancy, accountability is the first step. Smart people do certain things to get their life back on track without caring who stays or leaves, but it takes that inner accountability to make space for them. They can’t keep blaming others or subconsciously self-sabotaging to progress forward. Smart people do 11 things to get their life back on track without caring who stays or leaves 1. They stop blaming other people BearFotos | Shutterstock People who refuse to take accountability for themselves and instead blame others are often operating from a chronic victim mentality. They’d prefer to protect their self-image, seek pity …

10 Rare Personality Traits In People Who Leave Food Out For Stray Animals

10 Rare Personality Traits In People Who Leave Food Out For Stray Animals

Published by Jenni Sidey

It speaks volumes about people that go out of their way to leave food out for stray animals. A 2024 survey even found that feeding stray animals is a relatively common activity with an estimated 10-26% of people providing care.  Stopping and feeding a hungry animal is truly a window into someone’s personality and how they relate to the world around them. It might just look like someone just has a soft spot for animals and is being nice, but people who do it regularly without making a big deal about it treat those around them and even themselves way differently. The 10 rare personality traits of people who leave food out for stray animals: 1. Deep empathy Ground Picture | Shutterstock People who leave food out for stray animals have an ability to feel what others are going through. They don’t need an animal to be cute and friendly with them to recognize that it needs a bit of help. Their empathy is able to operate without strings attached.  Most people tend to only …

Tell us your experience of caring for elderly parents | Family

Tell us your experience of caring for elderly parents | Family

Published by Sam Flores

In a recent Guardian opinion piece, Lucinda Holdforth described her experience of caring for her late mother, and her complicated feelings after she died. It is a common human theme that good parents can never really rest for worrying about their children. But it seems to me that a reciprocal burden exists for good children. We are never entirely free from the psychic weight of our parents’ needs, love and ambitions for us in our youth, and increasingly we now find ourselves taking on guardian-style responsibilities for them during their prolonged old age. I finally understood the accumulated heaviness of the burden I had carried about a year after my mother died. At 59, I was at last an orphan, which meant I could turn off my phone each night. I woke up one day with the most complete feeling of creative liberty and personhood I’d ever experienced. That feeling has not left me since. With this in mind, we would like to hear about your own experiences of caring for elderly parents. How has …

Riane Eisler on Partnership Systems, Caring Economics, and Humanist Values in the 21st Century

Riane Eisler on Partnership Systems, Caring Economics, and Humanist Values in the 21st Century

Published by Sam Flores

Riane Eisler, an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist and human rights advocate, is renowned for her influential work on cultural transformation and gender equity. Best known for “The Chalice and the Blade,” she introduced the partnership vs. dominator models of social organization. She received the Humanist Pioneer Award in 1996, and in conversation with Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Eisler emphasized the urgent need for humanists to focus on values-based systems and the transformative power of caring economics. Drawing from neuroscience and history, she argues that peace begins at home and calls for a shift in worldview to build more equitable, sustainable, and compassionate societies rooted in connection, not control. The three books of hers of note that could be highlighted are “The Chalice and the Blade”—now in its 57th U.S. printing with 30 foreign editions, “The Real Wealth of Nations,” and “Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future” (Oxford University Press, 2019). Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Today, we are here with Riane Eisler. She is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, cultural …

The Last Chapter Isn’t Over: The Value of Storytelling in Caring for Our Elders

The Last Chapter Isn’t Over: The Value of Storytelling in Caring for Our Elders

Published by Sam Flores

“People need a function, he believes. And he has always been functional, no one can take that away from him.” — Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman’s “A Man Called Ove” follows a protagonist who has lost his wife and has hardened into a bitter and solitary figure, a curmudgeonly presence in his neighborhood. His character is reminiscent of Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” described as “hard as flint.” Yet Backman’s novel slowly reveals that Ove was not always this way. Moving between past and present, the story offers glimpses of the man he once was, the version of Ove who seems to have disappeared alongside his wife. In remembering Sonja, we learn that after her cancer diagnosis she “found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe for everything.” Ove, by contrast, felt that “someone needed to remain angry on her behalf.” As we read, we come to realize that his seemingly petty frustrations, his arguments with council representatives and “the men in white shirts,” even …

Women Who Give Everything To Someone Who Gives Them Nothing Usually Have These 11 Quiet Reasons

Women Who Give Everything To Someone Who Gives Them Nothing Usually Have These 11 Quiet Reasons

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s not easy to find love. Some women are willing to stay in relationships where they do not receive as much love as they give. It may be linked to their belief that they are not worthy of better love. Women who give everything to someone who gives them nothing may struggle with their self-esteem. It can be hard for them to feel confident in themselves. As a result, they may choose to stick around someone who treats them poorly. They may not feel worthy of true love. As outsiders, we may not understand where they are coming from. Women like this definitely have quiet reasons for continuing a relationship with someone who seems uninterested in them. Women who give everything to someone who gives them nothing usually have these 11 quiet reasons 1. They show love through giving Some people are natural givers. Often, they were raised by people who showed love through actions or gifts. This taught them that to show love, they should be overly giving. Being generous is in their DNA. …

Caring for the Caregivers | Psychology Today

Caring for the Caregivers | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

Co-authored with Sharon Salzberg Caregivers are often the unseen scaffolding holding our worlds together. They provide presence, stability, and love during life’s most vulnerable moments. But what happens when the very people who hold everything together begin to unravel? This year, consider the 63 million Americans who are family caregivers—roughly one in four adults. Many are carrying out complex medical tasks without formal training, navigating a balance between selflessness and personal sacrifice. Yet, the toll of this labor rarely makes the headlines. Instead, it shows up in the long, blurred days, in conversations that center on others’ needs, and in the quiet realization that your own life now orbits around someone else’s. Whether you’re caring for a newborn, supporting a spouse through illness, or juggling a career while managing a parent’s dementia, one truth stands clear: Your well-being isn’t a luxury. It’s the very foundation that makes everything else possible. As we set goals, it’s time to make self-care a priority—because without it, everything else starts to falter. In moments of broader uncertainty—like the community …

Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI, Handwrites Them Using Robot Pen

Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI, Handwrites Them Using Robot Pen

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Think back to the last time you peeled open an envelope to find a handwritten letter. Maybe it was a heartfelt thank-you message for attending someone’s wedding. Perhaps it was a note from a close friend traveling abroad. Whatever the reason, it feels good to get an actual letter in the mail, right? Now, you may never experience that feeling again without a jolt of paranoid suspicion. Introducing Handwrytten, a young AI company oozing with corporate-twee, peddling in a Rube Goldberg machine of automation that produces handwritten notes with zero emotional or physical effort: a large language model produces the content, and then a proprietary robot inks it out onto stationary with unmatched “speed, quality, and realism.” “In an age where we are all drowning in electronic communication, handwritten notes really stand out,” the company’s website reads, bragging that its robo-scrawl is “virtually indistinguishable from human writing.” From what can be gathered on its website, Handwrytten is primarily …

When Caring Becomes Counterculture – The Atlantic

When Caring Becomes Counterculture – The Atlantic

Published by Daniella Wilson

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, Atlantic staff writer David Frum opens with his take on President Trump’s reaction to a recent Supreme Court defeat on tariffs, arguing that the real issue is not just economics but the president’s drive for unchecked power. Then David is joined by Tim Miller of The Bulwark to unpack Tim’s recent trip to Minneapolis and what he saw on the ground amid ongoing ICE enforcement operations in the Twin Cities. They explore why younger Americans find “Resist libs” cringe and how that cynicism has helped fuel Trump’s politics. David and Tim also debate whether Never Trump conservatives are losing the core values that once defined them and whether that evolution is necessary in order to actually take on Trump. Finally, David revisits the history and meaning of the State of the Union address, questioning whether this long-standing ritual needs rethinking in the Trump era. The following is a transcript of the episode: David …