Highlights & Annotations
Insightfulness
- “Having the insight to identify the early patterns that reduce emotional health, and building on the ones which amplify it, are the main routes to emotional health.” (11)
- “...if pathology can cascade down the generations, so can emotional health” (12)
- “We are the veils that veil us from ourselves. We have a huge loyalty to that veil, because it came from our parents and all too often, grandparents and great-grandparents.” (25)
Authenticity in Our Careers
- “...people with intrinsic motives and goals have been shown to seek intellectual fulfilment, creative self-expression and a sense of mastery in completing tasks.” (93)
Death exercise (122)
- Imagine you’ve died and people are yelling at you in your grave
- What you would hate to be remembered by