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-He attributes the persistence that got him to where he is today in Hollywood to the discipline he learned as a football player.-"It's kind of weird because I look at entertainment, and my football career, the ups and downs, the ins and outs to how hard it was, it really prepared me for entertainment in that I could take rejection, I could go to an audition and realize that it wasn't about me," ..

-The Buddha continues, "And if, when I was asked by him, 'Is there no self?' I had answered, 'There is no self,' the wanderer Vacchagotta, already confused, would have fallen into even greater confusion, thinking, 'It seems that the self I formerly had does not exist now.'"-The Buddha's enlightened, deeply true, non-dual self is strikingly similar to Jane Loevinger's highest stage of ego develop..

-The best athletes find ways of working in concert with their surroundings, adapting themselves and their performances. They, too, are both independent and interdependent.-At present, however, I am not reliant on sporting success to validate my identity. Whether or not I make a lift has much less bearing on my self-worth.-In all of these instances, we are the same as we used to be but also unequ..

-"Across our many studies, we find that independent and interdependent selves are equally thoughtful, emotional, and active, but often have subtly different thoughts, feelings, and actions in response to the same situations," write Markus and Conner in Clash!.-With awareness that multiple lenses exist, we can begin to see the world in multiple ways. We can ask ourselves that lens we are looking ..

-In the long term, the meaning I created apart from my sport made me like my sport more because it suddenly enriched my life rather than limiting it.-It seems that all true things must change and only that which changes remains true." He seems to be taking Jung's advice to heart; within it lies wisdom for all of us.

-A large body of research shows that when there is too great a fusion between one's identity and their pursuit, then anxiety, depression, and burnout frequently result.-If we want to survive and thrive during ongoing cycles of change and disorder, then we, too, can benefit from developing our own versions of complexity.

-The sport might make up a significant part of his identity, but is could not comprise its entirety.-Ironically, rather than curtailing his performance on the ice, these other activities thrust him forward."When the training wasn't going great, perhaps something else in life did and that cheered me up."-Perhaps the greatest advantage of van der Poel's fluid identity is that he became less fragil..

-First, it shifts patients' expectations around pain from something to be avoided and cured to something to manage. Second, it teaches patients to lessen their resistance.-The more you pull back and withdraw, which is its own form of resistance, the worse off you'll be. The crucial work is updating your expectations and confronting reality, even if doing so feels difficult and uncomfortable at f..

-Pain is a warning signal from your brain that you are afraid of injuring yourself.-The goal is not to eliminate pain and other symptoms but rather to help patients face their pain and discomfort more skillfully so they can live fulfilling lives, and in doing so, minimize their overall suffering.-This is not to say that pain isn't real and cannot be debilitating. It is simply to say that many pe..

-The more you resist your pain, the exponentially worse your suffering becomes.The ultimate goal of the program is not to eliminate patient's pain, but rather to eliminate the overwhelming desire of patients to eliminate their pain.This starts with helping patients taper off opioids and other medications and ends with them learning to update their expectations about pain and to accept that some ..