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• ✌️ Empathy in Communication: Transform interactions with empathy and understanding.

• 🌱 Mature Decision-Making: Evolve from immediate gratification to principled choices.

• 🦹‍♀️ Unlocking Personal Agency: Shape life and achieve goals at any age.

• 🐢 The Power of Slow Change: How gradual progress leads to radical change.

Happy Reading!
– Phelipe

Book of the Week

Nonviolent Communication presents a powerful approach to communication centered around empathy, compassion, and mutual understanding. It challenges conventional methods of interaction that often lead to misunderstanding and conflict, offering instead a method for expressing ourselves honestly and listening to others empathetically.

Top Articles

A roundup of the week's most popular articles and essays from Playtext.

1. How to Grow the Fuck Up: A Guide to Humans (48 min)

Understanding the transition involves moving from seeking immediate gratification to comprehending societal norms and making choices based on higher principles. It's about aligning one's actions with deep-seated values and possessing the maturity required to make decisions that transcend personal desires or fears.

2. How to be More Agentic (11 min)

Agency is a learnable, powerful tool for shaping one's life and achieving extraordinary goals.

“Agency is the skill that built the world around you, an all-purpose life intensifier that lets you make your corner of it more like what you want it to be…Build a better mousetrap. Have an enviable marriage. Start a country. No one is born with it; everyone can learn it, and it’s never too late.”

3. Slow Change Can Be Radical Change (11 min)

Challenge the popular notion of sudden, dramatic change, instead emphasizing the importance of gradual, incremental progress. Through various examples, including personal experiences with Buddhism, historical references, and the workings of social movements, the author illustrates how true change often occurs slowly, requiring patience, perseverance, and a deep commitment to gradual progress.

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