Meet inside The Shops at Waterloo Town Square—we will congregate in the indoor seating area next to the Your Independent Grocer with the trees sticking out in the middle of the benches (pic) at 7:00 pm for 15 minutes, and then head over to my nearby apartment’s amenity room. If you’ve been around a few times, feel free to meet up at the front door of the apartment at 7:30 instead.
Topic
Weirdly appropriately for the last meetup before Thanksgiving, we’re discussing Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt sequence. It’s a series intended to remove guilt-based motivation and replace it with something healthier and stronger, and I keep meaning to read more of it because the parts that I have read have been universally quite helpful. It’s a pretty long series and we’ll only really be scratching the surface, but hopefully this will give you something like a toehold to explore the rest of the sequence in your own time.
Go to the spreadsheet (same password as the discord invitation) and claim a block of posts to read or listen to. Optionally, read/listen to more of the posts because all of them are pretty good.
If this is your first meetup or you can’t access the spreadsheet for some reason, read or listen to Don’t Steer With Guilt and the three next posts in the sequence (Update From the Suckerpunch, Be a New Homunculus, and Not Yet Gods). Or any three posts that you find particularly interesting. Or just show up and listen to the summary from other folks.
Prepare a ~5 minute summary of useful ideas you encounter for the block you’ve claimed to share with the group.
Mini-Workshop
After our summaries and initial discussion, we’ll break into small groups and do a quick exercise
Think about a personal situation where you’ve used guilt based motivation.
Working in small groups, apply the principles from the sequence to your situation.
Optionally, share back with the big group afterwards.
Replacing Guilt
Meet inside The Shops at Waterloo Town Square—we will congregate in the indoor seating area next to the Your Independent Grocer with the trees sticking out in the middle of the benches (pic) at 7:00 pm for 15 minutes, and then head over to my nearby apartment’s amenity room. If you’ve been around a few times, feel free to meet up at the front door of the apartment at 7:30 instead.
Topic
Weirdly appropriately for the last meetup before Thanksgiving, we’re discussing Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt sequence. It’s a series intended to remove guilt-based motivation and replace it with something healthier and stronger, and I keep meaning to read more of it because the parts that I have read have been universally quite helpful. It’s a pretty long series and we’ll only really be scratching the surface, but hopefully this will give you something like a toehold to explore the rest of the sequence in your own time.
For those who prefer audio, there are podcast versions of all the articles in the sequence.
Readings
We’ll be using our tried-and-true partitioned book club format:
Everyone read the 2 minute introduction post: https://mindingourway.com/replacing-guilt/
Go to the spreadsheet (same password as the discord invitation) and claim a block of posts to read or listen to. Optionally, read/listen to more of the posts because all of them are pretty good.
If this is your first meetup or you can’t access the spreadsheet for some reason, read or listen to Don’t Steer With Guilt and the three next posts in the sequence (Update From the Suckerpunch, Be a New Homunculus, and Not Yet Gods). Or any three posts that you find particularly interesting. Or just show up and listen to the summary from other folks.
Prepare a ~5 minute summary of useful ideas you encounter for the block you’ve claimed to share with the group.
Mini-Workshop
After our summaries and initial discussion, we’ll break into small groups and do a quick exercise
Think about a personal situation where you’ve used guilt based motivation.
Working in small groups, apply the principles from the sequence to your situation.
Optionally, share back with the big group afterwards.