184. Black & White Thinking
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Do you believe that you have to quit your job in order to take any action on starting your dream business? That you can only be happy if you have a very specific kind of life? That you have to cut someone out of your life because they did something you dislike? These are all examples of black and white thinking, one of the most pervasive - and limiting - ways of looking at the world. Tune in to learn how embracing shades of grey will open up your life and expand your impact in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello my chickens, how are you? |
| 0:30.8 | I hope you are all warm and dry inside your coops. It is raining here in New York today. |
| 0:36.5 | It is very dry and grisly. I feel like this happens every spring. It's like spring is sprung and we all get so excited and then it rains for two weeks. |
| 0:44.4 | But that's okay because everything that's gonna grow needs that water, right? |
| 0:48.6 | April's always a big month for me, which is when I'm recording this. |
| 0:52.2 | It's my birthday, it's also the clutch's birthday. |
| 0:56.8 | And I actually wanted to, before we dive into this episode, I wanted to share this amazing |
| 1:01.9 | post that one of my students made. So actually some of you have heard |
| 1:05.2 | her talk before about the thought work she's done because she was on a previous episode maybe, I guess |
| 1:12.2 | a year ago probably at least, maybe I guess a year ago probably at least maybe more than a year ago |
| 1:14.8 | where we talked about the work she had done on dating anxiety if you guys remember those of |
| 1:19.2 | you who have been like longtime listeners I did a series of kind of interviews with some of my students about the work they'd done because |
| 1:26.7 | kind of no matter how often I say like I work on this stuff and I'm not special in terms of this work working for me and I'm not just naturally chill I've had to do all |
| 1:36.1 | this work on it there's just this human tendency to think like well the person |
| 1:39.6 | teaching you it just comes easily to them or it only works for them or there's something wrong with you and so I always like to try to give you guys examples of my students who |
| 1:47.8 | have also been able to use this work to change their lives so that it kind of helps convince that part of your brain that |
| 1:53.5 | always wants to think like you're different and not think it's possible for you. |
| 1:57.4 | So she was already on the podcast and I think I know we talked about her sort of |
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