Replacing Guilt, Soares
Replacing Guilt is a series of essays by Nate Soares about replacing guilt-based motivation with “intrinsic motivation” – a drive to do good in the world. I listened to the podcast version of it, which was produced by Gianluca Truda who makes the [[Bit of a Tangent]]? 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.
- Replacing guilt
- __ [[Half-assing it with everything you’ve got]]N __
- Failing with Abandon
- The Stamp Collector
- You’re allowed to fight for something
- Caring about something larger than yourself
- You don’t get to know what you’re fighting for
- “Should” considered harmful
- Not because you “should”
- Your “shoulds” are not a duty
- Working yourself ragged is not a virtue
- Rest in motion
- Shifting guilt
- Don’t steer with guilt
- Update from the suckerpunch
- Be a new homunculus
- Not yet gods
- Where coulds go
- Self compassion
- There are no “bad people”
- Residing in the mortal realm
- Being unable to despair
- __ [[The value of a life]]N __
- See the dark world
- Choose without suffering
- Detach the grim-o-meter
- Simply locate yourself
- __ [[Have no excuses]]N __
- Come to your terms
- Transmute guilt into resolve
- The best you can
- Dark, Not Colorless
- Stop trying to try and try
- There is no try
- Obvious advice
- The art of response
- Confidence all the way up
- Desperation
- __ [[Recklessness]]N __
- Defiance
- How we will be measured
- Conclusion