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Positive Intelligence

• Author: Shirzad Chamine
• A lot of time and energy gets wasted in negative self-chatter.
  • This book /names/ and identifies different types of negative thoughtss, and helps tackle them.
• Saboteurs:
  • Judge, primary -- judges every action, your own and others'
  • Hyper achiever
  • Hyper vigilant -- always looking for problems
  • Hyper rational
  • Victim
  • Restless
  • Avoider
  • Stickler
  • Controller
  • Pleaser
• Options to tackle them, through the "Sage"
  • Empathize -- visualize yourself/others as a child, triggering feelings of protection, value, etc.
  • Explore -- blameless autopsy, fascinated anthropologist (particularly to side-step negative emotion)
  • Innovate -- apply "yes, and" to figure out new ideas without judgement
  • Navigate -- look back from the end of <life/work/project/etc.>, and decide the course of action
  • Activate -- pre-empt saboteurs with planning
• Think through things from both the concrete "what is being said" but also the emotional sense; a lot of what needs to happen goes through that channel.
• Videos -- meditation videos
• Feels like a mix of CBT, Meditation, Mindfulness by different, catchier names -- but an easy read that resonates well. With some good techniques to think through things well.

— Kunal