Emotionally Immature People and What It Means To Be Intelligent
Article Round-Up: 7.9.23
Enjoy this week’s curated list of articles, podcasts, and more from the web to help you live a better life.
Featured Thoughts: Moving Meditation
“The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas”
Takeaway: This article discuss what I refer to as moving meditation. The author reflects on several breakthroughs he had in his career as a mathematician, and how they all came to him during some form of physical movement.
I notice the same when I run. As much as I love lifting weights, this is one of the reasons I keep a regular running schedule two days a week. I find these runs meditative, contemplative, and has resulted in new ideas related to my business and my life.
I studied for college exams by running the morning of, taking that time to review, in my head, the material I was expected to know.
For me, the repetitive, rhythmic nature of running distracts the body just enough that my mind is free to focus in one direction. I’m not plagued with juggling a million different ideas or tasks. It’s an intense level of focus I’ve not been able to recreate anywhere else.
I’ve solved a lot of problems and weighed a lot of difficult decisions on these runs. They lead to a lot of new article ideas, ideas I share with you here. When you’re feeling stuck on a decision or a problem, or find your creativity waning, head out and get your body moving and see what happens.
“5 Songs From My Latest Travels”
Takeaway: A short playlist of songs that remind me of recent trips I’ve taken. If you aren’t already creating your own memory playlist, check out the linked article within this one to read about my modern day “horcrux.”
“What’s It Like To Be Intelligent?”
Takeaway: If you want to make your head spin and read something incredibly fascinating, all at the same time, then this article is for you. Explore the depths of what it means to have consciousness.
If words like, “neocortex” or “integrated numbers theory” get you excited, or if you can spell “consciousness” right on the first try, then this article is for you. (But honestly, you’ll probably enjoy it even if you had to google those things like I did.)
“How To Disentangle Yourself From Emotionally Immature People”
Takeaway: I’ve been really enjoying this blog from clinical psychologist, Yael Schonbrun. In this interview, she and her guest discuss what it means to recognize someone who is emotionally immature (EI) and how you can begin to detach from these types of unhealthy dynamics.
To summarize the experience of interacting with an EI individual,
“Because EI people often don’t have a very fully formed sense of self, they really rely on other people to emotionally stabilize them and to keep up their self-esteem for them. They even resort to all kinds of ways of making you feel morally obligated to take care of their feelings and to give them what they want.”
Read the article for more insights and ways to “disentangle” yourself for your own emotional wellbeing. Great stuff.
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