My kid was very ashamed of making mistakes and was unreceptive to help. (Local culture where I am is fucked up). First I started to work on the "mistakes are okay if we safely experiment".
I play games where either I or a toy was a baby and my kid was a parent/teacher/sensei. Then I would make mistakes or not know how to do stuff, and then my kid teaches me how. Could be silly stuff like avatar airbending lessons or magic lessons.
I also told stories about penicillin and how it was a mistake that was really good. I'd teach cool things like chopping wood with an axe, but safely (wide legs, hand near the axe head). Also I would tell stories about where I made mistakes and was dumb as a kid. Like cutting with a knife towards myself, breaking a window, etc.
Now my kid is pretty okay with mistakes. Much less shame. Now I can just straight up say "can I show you a trick? It's a big tricky to do, but I think it's easier".
Working on fear of other kids next, but that'll take some time
So. I was often told that negative emotions are from the devil or because of my sins, so naturally if I wanted to be a good Christian, I was happy. right? I am happy? Yes definitely. I am not a sinner, so I must be. (Supported by that chart in the article)
Surveying people on emotions is very weak evidence.
I had a co-worker who wrapped every function generated by AI with try/except (discarding the error).
The unit tests passed flawlessly!!!! They also didn't test anything at all
I was livid. My boss was an idiot and I tried to explain the issue, but I got in trouble because I took too long to fix it. 1000 of lines of mangled shit.
I got the Lumie 300 and it's amazing. I immediately felt better. Like way better. Winter still sucks for other reasons, but this was a huge upgrade for my life
It wakes you up with gradual simulated sunrise. I feel like I'm back in the south where I grew up
I'm was a on the anxious side for a long time, but I'm fine now. With people I care about, I just express "I'm really tired/hungry/bored/sore/etc." at random frequent times. It's pretty easy and makes it clear that my emotions are usually not about them.
Also European countries can pull out of the union fairly freely, and your taxes are paid to the country and the country then pays to EU (right?).
So you have the freedom to defund the EU if it gets corrupt. The US pays taxes first to the fed and then states. And no chance in hell a state can withdraw
Wtf it literally never crossed my might to use a forum like this. So fucking dumb. It's like everyone is scrambling for a couple percent points over the next
Man that's so nice. I would love to have that