Navigating Solitude and Optimism

In this episode of Relating to Self, I have a conversation with Richard D. Bartlett.

Richard helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations.
He's a co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, community building network Microsolidarity, non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral.

Topics, resources, and useful links mentioned in the episode:

• Why Richard is suspicious of the Self
• Relating to Self as inner conversations with mischievous kids
• Coming to a more agentic state of mind
• Relating within a group
• Good company as a privilege, how to create it?
• Extending co-regulation into our identity
• How to be a good mammal
• Cultivating trust as a practice
• Making relationships themselves as the object of curiosity
• The meaning of "grace"
• The balance between our animal and human sides
• The illusion of free will
• Meeting people where they are
• Non-attachment to outcome and wonder
• Not pushing your reality onto other people
• Being famous for values that serve people
• What's difficult for Richard
• Optimism as a lens

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