Things you intentionally do to yourself to fix problems you know you have. In this newsletter, self-therapy often refers to strategic practices for developing the uncertainty mindset (such as ambient uncertainty), becoming more comfortable with productive discomfort, and forcing functions for overcoming fear of failure (such as desperation by design)—basically all ways of developing a more productive and resilient relationship with inevitable uncertainty. Self-therapy works for teams and organizations too.
See also: adaptability, design, discomfort, emotion, freedom, goal-setting, habits, motivation, negative capability, negotiated joining, not-knowing, open-endedness, strategy, the work of uncertainty, voluntary uncertainty.
#10: Time for a change
#11: Productive discomfort
#13: Revelation and discovery
#27: Ambient uncertainty, Part 1
#3: Reality mining
#41: Surrendering control
#5: Cool-climate oceanside
#52: A year and change
#8: voluntary uncertainty
ambient uncertainty
comfort
control
delusion
design
desperation by design
discomfort
failure
forcing function
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negative capability
pizza
publishing
realistic imagination
resilience
risk mindset
risk vs. uncertainty
routines
stacking the deck
strategy
stuff
uncertainty mindset
voluntary uncertainty
writing