Part 1: From Organic Chemistry to Enlightenment
- How the consistent insistence that we use observation & deduction as budding scientists foreshadowed my future existential fervor 🤓
- My first blog, Analytical Ramblings of Scientific Mind, as an unintentional means of providing myself feedback through this observation-deduction process! ✍
- Feedback is FUNDAMENTAL, for ourselves & others 😉
- Ahhhh, the nuance of judgments and our brain's vulnerability to common decision-making biases
- Building self-awareness by exploring blind spots through deliberate reflection, tools, requesting feedback and/or receiving feedback (whether we wanted it or not) 😅
- 'Knowing' feedback is a gift 💩🎁
Part 2: Spiritual Will & Neurological Niggles
- Reminiscing on Summer 1.0 & how horrific heartbreak instigated the adventure of self-discovery 💔💣
- Being The Watcher & how to the process started 👀🔍
- Course correction by consistently asking myself the questions: 🤔
- "Is this how a mentally and emotionally healthy human behaves?"
- "Will I be proud of myself tomorrow?"
- The neuroscience of changing habitual behaviours, why it's so difficult and how to overcome the challenge 💪
Part 3: The Fine Art of Offering Feedback Sans Unfair Judgment
- The gift of feedback & how it facilitates course-correcting blinds spots for ameliorating awareness, healthy discipline and freedom from self-limiting patterns 🙏
- Exploring the nuance between Deduction ☝& Judgment 👎
- The neuroscience behind being a judgy prick & the ability to prevent it from becoming a harmful and/or unjust emotion(s) or behaviour(s) 🎉
Part 4: Providing Feedback With More Velvet Than Sledgehammer
- Learning to give the gift of feedback with more Compassion 💞
- Blind spots don't deserve to be demonised, they deserve to be developed 🌱
- Giving and/or receiving feedback will never be comfortable, but it can always be worth it 💯
- Effectively using diabolical feedback & resisting the urge to perceive providers as absolute assholes 😘
