2024.04.21 [Master of change]_ 36-38p

-When you operate in being mode, however, you identify with a deeper part of yourself : your essence and core values, your ability to respond to circumstances, whatever they may be.

-For almost a decade, lifting weights had been one of my primary ways of dealing with challenges. Now that was off the table too. I was unsure of who I was and my role in the community. I was lost.

-As she sat there during quarantine, her "reliable" and "stable" job having just been unceremoniously ripped away, she realized that while many things in life come and go, her love of writing and her desire to become an author were ever-present forces.

-I told her that too many people never take shots because they strive for perfection when good enough is usually, well, good enough.

-Christine's being orientation was integral to her surviving and even thriving, amidst so much change and uncertainty.

-Toward the end of To Have or To be?, Fromm writes that true joy is "what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves." which is precisely what Christine is doing.