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Jan 3, 2019 · Yet being emotionally and mentally healthy means not labeling other people and putting them in boxes that we file away. It means giving ourselves and others the freedom to change. We are not meant to be put in boxes. As people, we are always growing, changing, and evolving (hopefully that is). In a way if you are not growing, you are dying.
Nov 7, 2022 · Key points. The ability to categorize objects allows us to store an incredible amount of information in our brains. The ability to categorize objects begins to develop in the first few months of ...
So, we see MBTI as a starting point to understand people, so we put them in the box precisely so we can get to know them and take them out of the box, not to leave them there, shoe-horned in and saying, “well it’s mostly like me.”. It is a starting point, not an end point, the beginning of the self-discovery journey.
- Interview Runa Magnusdottir and Nick Haines
- Why Did You Wrote This Inspiring Book Together?
- Where Can We Set The Limit to Avoid Extremes Like The Holocaust?
- Does Social Media Influences Putting People in Boxes?
I am very honored to have interview Runa Magnusdottir, founder of the Change Makers and Nick Haines, founder of the Five Institute about a wonderful book called: “The Story of boxes, the good, the bad and the ugly.” Follow the discovery of how we place people in boxes in this conversation and become more aware of why we do it, how we do it and how ...
Runa: the reasons why we wrote the book together is really because we simply can’t stand the fact that people around us start to put themselves and us in boxes. It is often limiting us and preventing us from who we really are. We suffocate ourselves and others until we have no air to breath. It is dividing us and it just does not make any sense to ...
The limit should be about our awareness, it is impossible not to do it as we will. What is the consequence of this box for me and society, you are to ask yourself? Runa: the consequences can be good, bad and simply ugly. You can find yourself as life goes on with a full intention of this is a good box for me. I nurturing myself I am loved and I fee...
Nick: the problem with Social Media is that it narrows down a lot and it makes us instant judgments. Those will be inherently and utterly wrong, they can be totally wrong and limiting. We see kids and people making judgments of how people should be behaving and distinguishing different groups and if you are not part of that group you are not belong...
May 19, 2022 · We put ourselves in boxes for a variety of reasons: to make ourselves more comfortable, to make others more comfortable, or simply because we do not know any other way. But by placing ourselves in these boxes, we close off opportunities and limit our potential. We become what society expects us to be, instead of whom we truly are.
Sep 11, 2023 · Assuming that person A is just like person B because you see similarities and compare with your past experiences. This is how our brains work. By categorizing and classifying we help our brains to ...
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Jun 14, 2023 · When we put people in boxes like this, we deny them their multidimensional humanity. In addition, these boxes create an illusion of understanding and predictability, but they’re often based on stereotypes, not reality. Remember, the aim of stereotypes is not to reflect truth but to simplify complexity. However, people are not simple; we’re ...