Bikram Yoga as Anti-fragility Training Bikram Yoga helps people develop distress tolerance which is the ability to withstand challenge– some of which include emotional distress, difficult physical sensations, mind-racing or distorted thinking, and general discomfort with staying in the present moment. What’s the point of being able to withstand challenge? Shouldn’t we just eliminate challengeContinue reading “Anti-fragility Training”
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Toning Down Identity Politics for Common Humanity
Disturbing trends among young people worth paying attention to. Every educator, school leader, and parent ought read Haidt’s The Coddling of the American Mind. Check Jonathan Haidt out on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathanhaidt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonHaidt
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More Tough Love, Less Coddling
The kids in the “Everyone gets a trophy” generation are in college now and acting crazy at the extreme ends of the political spectrum (there’s a middle– we just don’t hear about them because they are individuals rather than extreme identity groups and they’re probably attending to the business of their lives instead ofContinue reading “More Tough Love, Less Coddling”
