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And then with some other colleagues, I really wrote a guide to bringing mindfulness into psychotherapy. And that's called sitting together.

and the new book is self-compassion for parents nurture your child by caring for yourself and the first book for professionals and others is called sitting together.

You wrote I think in in complicating the narrative which was 2018 um there are all kinds of ways to analyze right and you can talk about the influence of social media you can talk about the business model of journalism and you said all of this mattered this is where you came to but none of these explanations felt quite adequate something else was happening to something that had not been named.

Amanda Ripley is the author of several books including High Conflict why we get trapped and how we get out.

I'll be really honest and vulnerable I hope it's germane uh my mind goes back and forth I mean the topics are I think totally relevant like I have a chapter on moving from grief to resilience I have a chapter on moving from anger to courage um I have a chapter on agency you know finding it's a little bit like what you're saying before finding that sense of agency what can I do what can I control so I don't feel helpless

there's an arc in the book which was almost unintentional where I moved from individual action to kind of seeking systems change by having that kind of vision and then I move back to individual action where the last part of the book is about somebody in his relationship with his father and his father's very sick and dying and how he was with that toward the end

I also mentioned a book called The Precipice by Toby Ord which is discussion of existential risk in particular viscous of these really big scale catastrophes

And she's got a new book called Run Toward the Danger in which she explores the relationship between her past and her present and how the two are in constant dialogue.

And this also became the organizing principle of the six essays in her book, All Of Which Confront, which she calls the most dangerous stories of her life.

The connective tissue between the essays was a dialogue that was occurring between the two very different time frames of my life the past was affecting how I moved through the world well present life was affecting how the past moved through me the past and present I have come to realize are in constant dialogue acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance

Run toward the danger is a way of being that I have taken into my life with me a treasure a spell a sword

The book is called Run Towards the Danger and I've made three feature films that are available.

When I was doing the research for Rising Strong um first of all this sentence like the story I'm making out the story I'm telling myself has floated around in the data for over a decade

it reminds me of this book by Liz Plank called For the Love of Men and it just talks a lot about these ideas that you grow up with and how it impacts your relationships or your job but it can really have a negative impact on just your overall health as a person because

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Second book was called Barking to the Choir

he stopped me, he says relax you're Barking to the Choir

The book that Joseph recommended to me is called Tattoos on the Heart, but Father Boyle has a new book called The Whole Language.

so the subtitle is the power of extravagant tenderness so that's the thing we want to be fluent and we want to be just anchored in loving kindness knowing that kindness is the only non-delusional response to everything

I just read a book called The Chaos Machine but I highly recommend everyone especially if you have children that's just about social media and the social media empires and what they're doing to our minds, especially what they're doing to our children's minds.

and then the companion novel The Candy House which was one of President Obama's favorite reads of 2022.

I read visit from the Goonsquad and Candy House

given that in The Candy House, her most recent novel, she plays out some wild ideas about uploading our consciousness to the matrix.

Tasha Yurik has done some great work on self-awareness she has a great book Insight and a TED talk

And he mentioned this book by Alan Watts that wisdom of insecurity saying you know So many more possibilities in the unknown then Then there is you know when we've decided this is what it is what we're gonna do There's just that one possibility But when we don't know there's infinite possibilities

The book is called What We O the Future, and it makes a case for what he calls long-termism.

Long termism is the view that positively impacting the long term future is a key model priority of our time.

So I often kind of just reflect on kind of my very best experiences the feelings of like spending time with my partner or the falling in love for being a beautiful nature and I just think wow we can create a world where just our grandkids grandkids this is how good life is for them all the time and I personally find that motivating kind of something to build towards and I guess yeah honestly I found that more motivating day-to-day than worrying about nuclear war