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10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn

By Martha Beck — 2020

In the past 10 years, I've realized that our culture is rife with ideas that actually inhibit joy. Here are some of the things I'm most grateful to have unlearned:

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Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2025
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.

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Jesus
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Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Detachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.

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Stephen Levine
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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C. S. Lewis
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What even is "Self-Actualization"?-Humanistic Theory

Learn more about personality psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Carl Rogers, and the humanistic perspective.

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Abraham Maslow
2019
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The Labyrinth of I-Making: Larry Ward at TEDxSoCal

Deeply inspired by the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Larry has spent his life committed to non-violent social change, healing, and transformation on a global level.

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Larry Ward
2012
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Neale Donald Walsch Reminds Us To Step Into Our Purpose

From a life-threatening accident, to divorces, to living on the streets: Life was not easy on Neale Donald Walsch. In the midst of his struggles, he wrote down a question on a piece of paper: "What does it take to make life work?"

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Neale Donald Walsch
2018
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Emotional and Mental Health