What If You Were Defined By Your Worst Moment?

What If You Were Defined By Your Worst Moment?

We love to judge. To gossip. To belittle.

Not everyone, and not all the time, but enough for these feelings to fuel multi-billion dollar industries.

Even if we never say it out loud, we derive a certain pleasure from others' misfortune. There's even a name for the phenomenon—Schadenfreude.

We do it partly, because our brains are wired for comparison and social currency. And in part, because we're trained societally to determine our own value relative to others.

Pile on the anonymity of the screen or the page and we've become a culture that not only judges, but determines the entire worth of a human, all too often, by their worst moment.

We see it in the news cycle, in politics and Hollywood. But, we also see it in our towns, the local club, our own families and supposed friends.

What if the value of your entire existence was judged by the meanest thing you've said or thought, or the biggest mistake you've made? What would that look like? How might it make you feel?

What if, instead of reveling in the belittling of another human based on a moment, we looked through the lens of empathy and compassion? How might that change things?

That's what we're talking about on today's short and sweet GLP Riff.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(1183)

Why Grit Alone Doesn’t Cut It: New Research From Angela Duckworth

Why Grit Alone Doesn’t Cut It: New Research From Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth on why grit is only half the story. Acclaimed researcher Professor Angela Duckworth returns to unpack a bigger idea behind grit: your environment matters as much, if not more, than yo...

3 Sep 1h 3min

How to Make Better Decisions | Shane Parrish [Best of]

How to Make Better Decisions | Shane Parrish [Best of]

Most of us think good decisions happen in the moment. Shane Parrish says they’re already decided before you sit down. And most of them end up being bad, because you waited too long to make them good.S...

31 Aug 1h

Why Avoiding a Fight is Killing Your Relationship (and How to Fight Well) | Priya Parker

Why Avoiding a Fight is Killing Your Relationship (and How to Fight Well) | Priya Parker

Priya Parker comes back to argue that the fights you're avoiding aren't threatening your closest relationships; they're the only thing that can save them.Priya Parker is a facilitator and strategic ad...

27 Aug 58min

The Menopause Timeline Most Women Never Learn Until Midlife | Dr. Jessica Shepherd

The Menopause Timeline Most Women Never Learn Until Midlife | Dr. Jessica Shepherd

Most women don't hear about perimenopause until they're already deep into it, sometimes a decade in. This week, guest host Karen Walrond talks with OB/GYN and Generation M author Dr. Jessica Shepherd ...

24 Aug 44min

How to Avoid Cognitive Decline & Dementia (starting in your 40s) | Dr. Tommy Wood

How to Avoid Cognitive Decline & Dementia (starting in your 40s) | Dr. Tommy Wood

Your brain does not have to decline with age. Recent research reveals that for most people, staving off cognitive decline or dementia is more about lifestyle, especially in your 30s to 50s, than age o...

20 Aug 1h 3min

Sleep Doesn't Have to Get Worse With Age | Dr. Rebecca Robbins

Sleep Doesn't Have to Get Worse With Age | Dr. Rebecca Robbins

Every night, while you're asleep, your brain runs a cleaning cycle that clears out the kind of toxic buildup linked to Alzheimer's and dementia. And, with age, most of us sleep less. We are shortchang...

17 Aug 55min

The Self-Care Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Often Isn’t Enough | Jonathan Fields

The Self-Care Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Often Isn’t Enough | Jonathan Fields

You can have a genuinely excellent self-care practice, the meditation, the training, the tracked sleep, the nutrition, and still be using every bit of it to avoid the one question that actually needed...

13 Aug 56min

What 10-Year-Olds Know About Mental Health That the Rest of Us Forgot | Dr. Niobe Way

What 10-Year-Olds Know About Mental Health That the Rest of Us Forgot | Dr. Niobe Way

We've been calling it a loneliness epidemic and treating it like a mental health problem. NYU developmental psychologist Niobe Way says that's the wrong diagnosis, and she has almost 40 years of data ...

10 Aug 1h 8min

Populært innen Fakta

fastlegen
dine-penger-pengeradet
relasjonspodden-med-dora-thorhallsdottir-kjersti-idem
treningspodden
rss-strid-de-norske-borgerkrigene
jakt-og-fiskepodden
foreldreradet
rss-orjasater
hverdagspsyken
sinnsyn
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
rss-kunsten-a-leve
mikkels-paskenotter
rss-var-forste-kaffe
lederskap-nhhs-podkast-om-ledelse
gravid-uke-for-uke
fryktlos
rss-impressions-2
kvallm
branncast