Remember Your Soul's History
Lessons from TEDxCalgary
Six Basic Machines of Classical Antiquity
- Awareness of behaviour we want to change
- Awareness of what triggers poor responses and why
- Reframing experiences
- Pressure from our peers
- Encouragement from our peers
- Pressure from cultural norms
- Encouragement from our cultural norms
- Confidence in own ability
- Willingness to find a better way
- Comfort with uncertainty
- Linking habits and conduct with outcome
- Hitting rock bottom
- Understanding of how success is achieved
- Sleeping, eating, and exercising well
- Self-reflection, self-Awareness
- Letting others tell us what to do
- Practicing the new behaviour
- Remembering what is important in life
- Self-scrutiny applied with kindness
- Encountering a deep injustice
- Stepping back and seeing the bigger more meaningful picture
- Knowing how to change self from past experience
- Choosing to take responsibility
What have you found that works?
- Understanding immediacy of consequences
– Repeatedly asking “so what?” to reframe in terms of deep-seated values