Episode 35: Bolstering Blind Spots

 

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 😘