Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 29. November 1962 |
Geburtsort | Provo |
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Beschreibung | Martha Nibley Beck (geboren am 29. November 1962) ist eine amerikanische Autorin, Lebensberaterin und Rednerin, die sich darauf spezialisiert hat, Einzelpersonen und Gruppen dabei zu helfen, ein höheres Maß an persönlichem und beruflichem Erfolg zu erreichen. Sie hat drei Abschlüsse: einen BA, MA und PhD der Harvard University. Beck ist die Tochter des verstorbenen Gelehrten und Apologeten der LDS-Kirche, Hugh Nibley. Nach der Veröffentlichung ihres Bestsellers Leaving the Saints" im Jahr 2005 erlangte sie landesweite Aufmerksamkeit: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (Wie ich die Mormonen verlor und meinen Glauben fand), in dem sie ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Überleben sexuellen Missbrauchs schildert. Beck ist nicht nur Autorin mehrerer Bücher, sondern auch Kolumnistin für O, The Oprah Magazine. |
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
