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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

76. Anger + Something New

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On a previous episode, I talked about the distinction between positive and negative motivation and action, and the way we're taught that negative emotions lead to positive actions. Many of us think our anger will motivate us to take actions, believing this will change things, but I'm hoping to share some insight that will shed a little light on why this is a mistaken thought pattern.

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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.

0:20.3

Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:26.7

Hello my chickens, how are you all? I am feeling totally high on life today. First of all, it's

0:39.5

light outside. I'm still not over that. It's light until like seven. But more importantly this is not

0:47.6

as seasonal effective disorder podcast. I am working on something so amazing and exciting for you all that I have a hard time containing

0:56.2

myself about it and I want to tell you all about it but I can't for a few more days.

1:01.8

But I can give you some hints. So if you think about this

1:05.4

podcast now that there's over a hundred episodes, it's practically like a

1:09.5

college course and thought work, right? But the problem is you only hear it yourself alone. So it's kind of like, it's like doing it on an audiobook or something, right? Or it's like going to college online. But if you only went to college online, what would you miss? You

1:26.2

would miss the fun. And the fun is important. You'd miss the community. you'd miss making lifelong friends, you'd miss having all this late night talks about life and the world and your future.

1:39.0

It's actually the people and the conversations you have that make any learning experience meaningful and real.

1:46.0

Right? That's why college is not just called,

1:48.5

here's a textbook, read it for three months, and then take an exam by yourself.

1:52.0

Right? So why you have... it for three months and then take an exam by yourself.

1:53.0

Right?

1:54.0

So why you have lectures and you know, TAs and discussion groups and homework assignments

1:59.6

because it's conversation and application and sort of trading of ideas and deepening your

2:05.8

understanding through talking that really helps you take learning and turn it

2:11.0

into real transformation of your mind and your life.

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