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Make Your Damn Bed
Julie Merica
1618 episodes
49 minutes ago

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.


Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!


Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.


All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an "as-is" basis.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.


Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!


Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.


All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an "as-is" basis.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Make Your Damn Bed
1598 || generational trauma response

Feeling disconnected or unsure? Dr. Pat suggests:


Body Check-In: When you consume news about social or political issues, what sensations do you notice in your body? Do you feel tense, numb, energized?

Triggers and Ancestry: Think about a recent moment you felt fear or shut down in response to authority or conflict. How might this reaction connect to your community’s historical or ancestral experiences?

Finding Ventral Vagal: What people, places, or practices help you feel safe and connected? How can you incorporate more of these in daily life, especially when fear in society is high?

From Reaction to Response: Recall a time you reacted in anger or froze up around an authoritarian figure/stressor. With compassion for yourself, consider how, if you had felt more grounded or supported, you might have responded differently? What support or boundaries would help in future similar situations?

Collective Care: How can you contribute to a sense of safety and solidarity in your community? Could you start a trauma-informed discussion group, a community care circle, or simply check on neighbors more often?


SOURCE: https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/your-nervous-system-under-fascism-a-decolonial-polyvagal-exploration

Dr. Pat's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pat.radical.therapist/?hl=en

Dr. Pat's substack: https://patradicaltherapist.substack.com/

Dr. Pat's original post: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1281714603957641&set=pcb.1281714660624302


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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49 minutes ago
8 minutes 55 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1597 || easy brain hacks

Did you know you can "hack your brain" for things beyond your productivity? You can become more resilient, more conscious, more in control, through a few simple practices.


It's not about avoiding anything that makes us feel sad, but it's about becoming conscious of the process of engaging with it.


It's not about the content, but the process. Empowering vs. Disempowering yourself.


INSPIRED BY: https://adriennemareebrown.net/

and https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/your-nervous-system-under-fascism-a-decolonial-polyvagal-exploration


Very Well Mind on Brain plasticity: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-brain-plasticity-2794886#:~:text=Strengthening%20existing%20pathways:%20Neurons%20that,adapt%20to%20the%20changing%20environment.



Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 day ago
8 minutes 58 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1596 || your brain is play-doh

Our brains are malleable, and we can actually enrich our experiences to encourage more "plasticity" or adaptability in our own heads - if we know what to look for.


Very Well Mind on Brain plasticity: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-brain-plasticity-2794886#:~:text=Strengthening%20existing%20pathways:%20Neurons%20that,adapt%20to%20the%20changing%20environment.



Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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2 days ago
9 minutes 51 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1595 || brains are lazy, we are not

Think about a good joke. If you knew the punchline right away? It's less funny. If you had to have the punchline explained? Less funny. But if you understood the punchline within a few moments, and got the satisfaction of "realization" in real time? That makes a BANGER of a joke.


It's all about the appropriate level of challenge and thinking.


According to Daniel Willingham's book, "Why Students Don’t Like School?" Curiosity is fragile. Learning is difficult as hell. Our brains are built for efficiency, not thinking. We can trick our brains into motivation by worrying about the difficulty of the challenge, rather than the topic or the content. We rely on our memories more than our thinking brain.



SOURCES:


Read Daniel's article for yourself, here: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/WILLINGHAM%282%29.pdf

Check out his website + other work: http://www.danielwillingham.com/books.html

Or read this synopsis of the book: https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/why-dont-students-like-school/


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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3 days ago
9 minutes 34 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1594 || dropping the cognitive load

It's not about spinning all the plates, it's about setting most of them down so you can actually focus on the spinning process.


THE SOURCES:


Reducing cognitive load to learn: https://theelearningcoach.com/learning/reduce-cognitive-load/


Getting into flow state: https://rts-1988.medium.com/getting-to-flow-state-while-studying-simulating-mental-effort-while-reading-543eecdee6ca


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

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OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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4 days ago
9 minutes 37 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1593 || parenting yourself with love + logic

When I’m having a rough time, trying to treat myself like I liked to treat my students, with empathy, compassion, patience, kindness, attention, care, time, etc. and in an effort to build muscles that can provide them with that empathy, compassion, patience, kindness, attention, time, care, etc. for themselves? I feel like the everyday things that I sometimes struggle with, are more doable. More approachable. 


The original source: https://www.loveandlogic.com/


Powerpoint of the main points of Teaching with Love and Logic: https://aae.lewiscenter.org/documents/AAE/Love%20and%20Logic/Teaching/Teaching%20With%20Love%20-%20Logic.pdf


PDF version of Parenting with Love and Logic: https://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/645/1/Parenting%20With%20Love%20and%20Logic_%20Teaching%20Children%20Responsibility%20(%20PDFDrive.com%20).pdf


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

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OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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5 days ago
10 minutes 18 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1592 || consulting with love + logic

Instead of trying to control others, become a consultant.


"Children need thoughtful guidance and firm, enforceable limits. We set those limits based on the safety of the child and how the child’s behavior affects others. Then we must maintain those limits to help children understand that they are responsible for their actions and will suffer reasonable consequences for actions that are inappropriate. However, while the parents are drawing and holding these limits, it is important for them to continue encouraging their children to think about their behavior and help them feel in control of their actions by giving choices within those limits. This is where the consultant parent comes in."


The original source: https://www.loveandlogic.com/


Powerpoint of the main points of Teaching with Love and Logic: https://aae.lewiscenter.org/documents/AAE/Love%20and%20Logic/Teaching/Teaching%20With%20Love%20-%20Logic.pdf



PDF version of Parenting with Love and Logic: https://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/645/1/Parenting%20With%20Love%20and%20Logic_%20Teaching%20Children%20Responsibility%20(%20PDFDrive.com%20).pdf


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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6 days ago
8 minutes 37 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1591 || micromanager vs. drill sargent

"Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn’t tolerate disrespect, but also love that is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes. Most mistakes do have logical consequences. And those consequences, when accompanied by empathy — our compassionate understanding of the child’s disappointment, frustration, and pain — hit home with mind-changing power."


The original source: https://www.loveandlogic.com/


Powerpoint of the main points of Teaching with Love and Logic: https://aae.lewiscenter.org/documents/AAE/Love%20and%20Logic/Teaching/Teaching%20With%20Love%20-%20Logic.pdf



PDF version of Parenting with Love and Logic: https://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/645/1/Parenting%20With%20Love%20and%20Logic_%20Teaching%20Children%20Responsibility%20(%20PDFDrive.com%20).pdf


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
8 minutes 23 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1590 || tools for skeptical thinking || throwback

Enjoy this throwback episode (from day 872) before the new series drops on Monday!


"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum


Carl Sagan shares guidelines with us for how to critically think. Today, I share them with you!


Critical thinking never goes out of style. especially when we consider how MUCH information we are forced to take in on a daily basis.


Historically speaking, Never have people had so much information FORCED upon them - we gotta be diligent about how we learn new information so we’re not falling victim to the Riff-raff. 


RESOURCES: https://stimpunks.org/glossary/critical-thinking/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World


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Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
6 minutes 39 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1589 || the list for getting unstuck || throwback

ENJOY THIS THROWBACK EPISODE FROM DAY 751, BEFORE THE NEW SERIES DROPS ON MONDAY -


Make a list of all the shit you're good at + a list of all the good shit in your life + all the shit that bothers you about your life.

Using the first two lists, attempt to solve the last list and bingo-bango you've got yourself a lil action plan template.


WATCH: www.youtube.com/juliemerica


GET A MONTHLY NOTE FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com


BUY SOME MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/make-your-damn-bed-podcast?ref_id=27657


TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast


OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
6 minutes 12 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1588 || why learning sucks

Curiosity is fragile. Learning is difficult as hell. Our brains are built for efficiency, not thinking. We can trick our brains into motivation by worrying about the difficulty of the challenge, rather than the topic or the content. We rely on our memories more than our thinking brain.


According to Daniel Willingham's book, "Why Students Don’t Like School?" "Thinking occurs when you combine information (from the environment and from long-term memory) in new ways. That combination happens in working memory."


SOURCES:


Read Daniel's article for yourself, here: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/WILLINGHAM%282%29.pdf

Check out his website + other work: http://www.danielwillingham.com/books.html

Or read this synopsis of the book: https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/why-dont-students-like-school/


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net

GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com

TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast

OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
9 minutes 56 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1587 || a silly + true teacher story

Some of the lessons I prioritize, still: Stop being so hard on yourself when you’re struggling to learn or master or understand something new. You’re actually doing a great job as a learner. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, trying, messing up, learning. If you knew already, you wouldn’t be learning anymore. Learning is impossible to mess up, unless you give up. It’s supposed to be challenging - but that doesn’t have to mean frustrating. Take your time to be a learner. Tests are hard for some of us, but that doesn’t mean you’re dumb. Judge a fish by ability to climb a tree, and all that. 


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed

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OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast

OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
8 minutes 35 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1586 || some of my teacher stories || birthday episode

And that’s the beauty of math, right? There are many ways to get there, but there is one answer.


It’s tidy, if you’re tidy. 


It’s also why I hate math - because I am not the tidiest worker. 


I try to be, and am training myself to be so I can enjoy the process of things more, and actually invest in the process as much as the outcome, but when I was younger and sometimes still, I really don’t have time for poorly worded instructions, and I tend to rush through shit if I don’t see the point in it.


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
7 minutes 48 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1585 || dirt in a cog

Dirt in a cog is a way to embody resistance. It focuses on slowing down, jamming up, creating little bits of friction that make it difficult to keep attacking our citizens effectively.


We need all types of resistance, don't think there are limits to your modes of resistance. Make fascism hard. Don't normalize the violence we're seeing. Keep showing your community + your country that you aren't going to lie down and watch it burn.


You don't have to wait for one big act of revolutionary change to start pushing back. You can push back against the shift in everyday actions + choices, if you know where to look.


THE "DIRT IN A COG" ZINE: https://invisiblehistory.org/dirt-in-a-cog-zine/


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


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OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica 


The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.


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1 week ago
8 minutes 45 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1584 || the next best choice

Joy is part of the practice.


When you can't find it and don't know where to start? Start small. Start by reminding yourself that joy still exists, and it's a frequency vibrating right above our heads, and if we can just poke our heads out of this damned hole, we can find it - tap into it, and use it like the resource it is. 


Pay attention to the glimmers that make you feel seen.


The goal is to make the next best choice.


Reclaim your agency by starting with fun, whimsy, and joy.


Inspirational stuff that has helped to pry me from my funk lately:


DIRT IN A COG VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyU50dserEY

CHAOTIC GUIDE TO MAKING STUFF INSTEAD OF DOOMSCROLLING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8W6CBxc64&t=102s

RADICAL NEIGHBORING VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynQV-oKM0E


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


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2 weeks ago
8 minutes 50 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1583 || tactical frivolity (joy is our way out)

Tactical frivolity is what happens when you use humor, whimsy, and joy to make those in power look ridiculous. It flips the script and reclaims agency. The optics matter, the message matters, and how the message arrives matters. So get involved, stop leaning into despair, and flip that damned script. Get some joy in your resistance. It's exactly what the world needs right now.


Threads: https://www.threads.com/@eorlins/post/DP8wkOgDfyt/have-you-heard-of-tactical-frivolityits-one-of-my-favorite-forms-of-protesttacti

Leeja Miller's Video on Tactical Frivolity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGiEhbaa8Ko


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2 weeks ago
9 minutes 32 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1582 || mental gymnastics (and how to stop)

Beliefs require faith, rationality requires flexibility. Unless your belief is rooted in rationality, these things can conflict.


Refusing to acknowledge or label something doesn’t make it go away, but it does take your power away from being able to confront or address it.


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2 weeks ago
8 minutes 37 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1581 || analysis paralysis

Our brains have a tendency to over-value the effect of TINY inconsequential differences when comparing options.


Distinction bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate how different their options are when they compare them to each other rather than evaluating them independently, against some absolute standard. This bias often leads to an exaggerated perception of the differences between options. - ClearerThinking.org



Distinction Bias effects: https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/distinction-bias-definition-examples-and-effects


Distinction Bias Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_bias


Nir's take on Distinction Bias: https://www.nirandfar.com/distinction-bias/


Reddit's solutions: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1ig89cd/anyone_else_agonize_over_decisions_and_then_end/


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2 weeks ago
9 minutes 16 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1580 || contrast effect

The contrast effect is a bias where the perception of something is distorted by being compared to something else, making the differences between them seem greater than they are. 


SOURCES:


BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18


Contrast effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_effect#:~:text=%5Bclarification%20needed%5D-,Domains,The%20checker%20shadow%20illusion


Anchoring Bias: https://medium.com/illumination/anchoring-bias-how-your-mind-tricks-you-into-wrong-decisions-c60b1ef8728e


More biases here: Bizarreness effect, Humor effect, Von Restorff effect, Negativity bias, Publication bias, Omission bias

Anchoring effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect


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2 weeks ago
9 minutes 7 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed
1579 || omission bias

The omission bias refers to our tendency to judge harmful actions as worse than harmful inactions, even if they result in similar consequences.


SOURCES:

BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18

OMISSION BIAS: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/omission-bias

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias

More biases here: Bizarreness effect, Humor effect, Von Restorff effect, Negativity bias, Publication bias, Omission bias


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3 weeks ago
9 minutes 17 seconds

Make Your Damn Bed

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.


Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!


Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.


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