#outward mindset

[troydthompson]

For me life is completely about relationships. I don't want to live alone on a mountain. I want to inspire people, I want to be inspired by people, I want to love and be loved.

[troydthompson]

Simply put, sympathetic joy is our capacity to delight in the happiness and good fortune of others—think of it as the flip side to feeling compassion for others’ suffering.

[troydthompson]

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

[troydthompson]

Building trust is an everyday action, one that requires a shift in mindset, not a whole new set of operating instructions.

(https://nyti.ms/3nK88EZ)

[troydthompson]

First, before you can let go of preconceptions and expectations and prejudices, you have to notice them; otherwise, they’re just carrying on unconsciously and affecting everything you do. But as you sit, you begin to recognize the really persistent ones: “Oh my gosh . . . you again! Didn’t I just deal with you yesterday?” And again. And again. Pretty soon, you can’t take them seriously. They just keep popping up and popping up and popping up, and after a while you become really familiar with them. And you can’t get so buried under something once you realize that it’s just a habitual state of mind and doesn’t have much to do with what’s right in front of you. It’s just something that you haul around with you all the time and bring out for every occasion. It hasn’t much to do with the present situation. Sometimes you can actually say, “Oh, I think I’m just hauling that around with me. I don’t think it has anything to do with this.”

(https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/zen-not-knowing/)

[troydthompson]

We cease seeking our own personal happiness at the expense of others, because we see that the suffering of others is our suffering as well, and we see that our happiness too is inseparable from that of others.

(https://tricycle.org/magazine/zen-ethics/)

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Impostor Syndrome is more common than you think; Study finds best way to cope with it

A new study from researchers at BYU reveals that perceptions of impostorism are quite common and uncovers one of the best — and worst — ways to cope with such feelings.