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A Life of One's Own is a great book, far ahead of its time (she was using the word 'mindfulness' 90 years ago), and a classic in 'thinking for oneself', something that used to be popular to recommend but has never been easy to do.

Joanna Field was the pen name of Marion Milner. I have a quote from her in my profile. It took me a long time to track down the paper but that quote was the only interesting thing in it.

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If only a quote like that could be taken to heart and applied to ones own life, I'm pretty sure that would be life changing. If everyone did it, it would be world changing.

I'm thrilled that you (and the other commenters) are really getting it. I feel the same way, and it informs everything I try to do.

It really is a great quote, gives tremendous insight on your moderation philosophy, and I read it frequently when stalking your mod actions ;-)

Related (maybe if you’re pareidoliac like me) principle I need to work on much harder to internalize is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marit_ayin#In_private

;)

I believe I've got a better-than-chance feel for when a HN submission might hit the front page ("public") or will go/stay down in the long tail (giving opportunity for kicking off the shoes in "private" convos) but admit that when I mess it up it's usually spectacularly wrong.

For folks still paying attention (& on similar levels of practice/deliberation or cortex/amygdala :) the quote is from Milner’s

https://www.amazon.com/Suppressed-Madness-Sane-Men-Psychoana...

EDIT: right in the intro, for the especially impatient/deadtreefans.

This is one of those rare times when I'm seeing Dang comment on a post directly!

And thanks for that quote. I've read it earlier, of course. But it's good to read it again and again. For some reason, reading that quote always makes me introspect and think whether I've become better human over the years.

What a beautiful quote! And it does a great job capturing the thought you've put into building this community

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