# Replacing Guilt

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Replacing Guilt is a [series of essays by Nate Soares](http://mindingourway.com/guilt/) (and now a book) about replacing guilt-based motivation with "intrinsic motivation" – a drive to do good in the world. I listened to the [podcast version of it](https://anchor.fm/guilt), which was produced by Gianluca Truda who makes the [redacted](https://ollybritton.com/404) podcast.

I neglected to take notes the first time around which was a mistake but it was still very useful to listen to. Bold titles are episodes or posts that I especially enjoyed.

1. Replacing guilt
2. [Half-assing it with everything you've got](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/half-assing-it-with-everything-youve-got/)
3. [Failing with Abandon](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/failing-with-abandon/)
4. The Stamp Collector
5. You're allowed to fight for something
6. Caring about something larger than yourself
7. You don't get to know what you're fighting for
8. "Should" considered harmful
9. Not because you "should"
10. Your "shoulds" are not a duty
11. __Working yourself ragged is not a virtue__
12. __Rest in motion__
13. Shifting guilt
14. Don't steer with guilt
15. __Update from the suckerpunch
16. __Be a new homunculus__
17. [redacted](https://ollybritton.com/404)
18. Where coulds go
19. Self compassion
20. There are no "bad people"
21. Residing in the mortal realm
22. Being unable to despair
23. [The value of a life](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/the-value-of-a-life/)
24. See the dark world
25. Choose without suffering
26. Detach the grim-o-meter
27. Simply locate yourself
28. [Have no excuses](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/have-no-excuses/)
29. Come to your terms
30. Transmute guilt into resolve
31. The best you can
32. Dark, Not Colorless
33. __Stop trying to try and try__
34. There is no try
35. Obvious advice
36. The art of response
37. Confidence all the way up
38. [redacted](https://ollybritton.com/404)
39. [Recklessness](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/recklessness/)
40. [redacted](https://ollybritton.com/404)
41. [How we will be measured](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/how-we-will-be-measured/)
42. Conclusion

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