Um, just to say, okay, um, you might be thinking, okay, sounds good, but we have a lot of misgivings as a culture about self-compassion. I mean, we aren't raised thinking this is a good idea. What are some of the misgivings we have as a culture or maybe yourself or your friends that you hear expressed goals or events?
a lot of misgivings as a culture about self-compassion. I mean, we aren't raised thinking this is a good idea. What are some of the misgivings we have as a culture or maybe yourself or your friends that you hear expressed goals or events? Absolutely. Yeah. The number one actually misgiving about self-compassion is that it will undermine your motivation. You'll be lazy. You won't
you won't you lose your edge. Yeah. There's there's lots of other misgivings that we just aren't so sure it's such a good thing. Right. So just letting yourself off the hook is an excuse.
And I didn't even want to explore what she meant by that because-- What she was saying is you in person, I like you in person. But I think she had some misgivings about me on the page. And so this is an incredibly scary thing.
this project in January. Once I came to terms with my initial misgivings and threw myself into the process, I have had the best time. In fact, when I was glittering my gourds last Saturday, I couldn't stop saying, this is so fun I can't believe how much I love this."
And it's a wonderful thing to write a lyric because you have this prompt. I had, though not without misgiving , agreed to put my life in Morgana's hands a couple of afternoons a week.
it used to be I would I could give you lots of very wellargued um reasons why I think these misgivings are misconceptions but actually now we have the research to really address all these misgivings. So just a little chart you can see um back in 2003 there I published the first um theoretical article on self-compassion what it is
What are some of the misgivings we have as a culture or maybe yourself or your friends that you hear expressed goals or events? Absolutely. Yeah. The number one actually misgiving about self-compassion is that it will undermine your motivation. You'll be lazy. You won't you won't you lose your edge. Yeah.
What do you mean give compassion for myself? Right. So there's a lot of very common misgivings. Um uh very you know it used to be I would I could give you lots of very wellargued um reasons why I think these misgivings are misconceptions but actually now we have the research to really address all these misgivings. So just a little chart you
The red button? Well, for those of you who don't know, there's a little red button with a bonus panel on each comic. So yeah, I switched to digital, not without misgivings.
So I think the idea of science not always being certain, but being able to frame that uncertainty is a really important part of communication. Because if you're humble about that in the beginning, it helps avoid a lot of the misgivings people may have about that scientific guidance later on. There's a lot of really important words that I think have imported in the way that we typically do business in medicine and science, things
Maybe like selfish. It's selfish, right? Aren't you supposed to be focused on compassion for others? What do you mean give compassion for myself? Right. So there's a lot of very common misgivings. Um uh very you know it used to be I would I could give you lots of very wellargued um reasons why I think these misgivings are
is from being the person who is in a way the most dogged, Ahab-like proponent of the idea that we have to build this bomb and end this war, and a guy who has compartmentalized and repressed a lot of misgivings and self-doubt in order to deliver that weapon.
Brian Fitzpatrick: So other than your fascination with celery salt, how did you keep this secret the whole time? Surely there was one point where you just wanted to be like, "Tell everybody." And finally on that Thursday I think I wrote him and I was like, "I'm gonna drop all pretense here. Here is my misgivings." And I think what I said was, "I'm very nervous that my