Another learning fundamental: more progress is made shoring up weaknesses than building up strengths, because the latter happens naturally.
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I've made vastly more progress with mantra meditation, physical exercise/yoga and eating healthily than any amount of insight training.
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Your strengths are available to you habitually. You can access them almost any time you need them. Strengthening your flaws does a lot.
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If you've ever seen one of those big bodybuilder types with giants arms and shoulders and tiny everything-elses, you'll know what I mean.
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Strength is seductive: it feels great to be in control. It takes a lot of rewiring in a meritocratic culture to see weakness the same way.
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The biggest issue IME tends to be learning that it's okay to see and acknowledge the flaws though, rather than ignoring them.
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It feels like now that I have a degree of insight practice under my belt, I can now find and fix the broken windows, as it were.
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