Tag: espial
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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The Differences of Fear Vs Anxiety: A Discussion and Expansion
Any given segment of time will provide opportunity for fears and anxieties; however, one does not tend to operate all of the time within the boundaries of understood reactions to fear or anxiety. There is a divide between the understanding and intake of fear or anxious stimulation, and the reaction to such. This space between…
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Education for Critical Consciousness and Getting More from Life
Education for critical consciousness, improving critical thinking skills, or considering critical development more generally are all worthwhile goals for an individual at any stage of their life, young or adult. And yet, often I hear from friends, colleagues, and coworkers this almost self-defeating attitude of some subject being too complex, some puzzle being too tricky,…
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Espial: Fear
Your Reading Materials Found Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2re5fhilgt21yp/Fear_ReadingMaterials.pdf?dl=0 One of my favorite heard phrases is the idea of “100% fear” — finding the impetus & driving mechanism for an instance or a journey arise from 100% fear. It decrees: yes, I am a terrified creature and, yes, I achieve! A boss I had when I was younger…
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Espial: Reward
Your Reading Materials Found Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7v7y4ar9e5zy061/Reward_ReadingMaterials.pdf?dl=0 Reward is a particularly challenging & creative mechanism to understand. Not quick motivation & not quite lethargic, reward is the gear which finalizes the action: without offering any definitive structure itself, reward determines completion. While we are understanding reward, it becomes imperative to consider what comprises a reward, at…
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Espial: Awe
Your Reading Materials Are Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/atuq8l82gy3tj68/Awe_ReadingPacket.pdf?dl=0 Is awe reverence or fear? This interrogation of awe looks to disentangle the paralyzing grandiosity from miraculous inspiration. Awe humbles, dominates, and can entertain like no other; yet the implications of awe are intent on unreachability. Fortunately, we pesky humans are impossible to dissuade entirely. But also fortunately, an…
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Espial: Shame
Your Reading Materials Are Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tctpe2261aacpoi/Shame_ReadingMaterial.pdf?dl=0 What is there to say about shame? Accepting it allows for the renewal of intelligence. There’s a spectrum of shame: the shame of knowing & observing; shame of being reduced; shame of representation, etc. My spectrum of shame may be aligned and colored significantly differently from yours. As such,…