
EP 368: What Does Growth Without Striving Look Like? with Rita Barry
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The Validation Spirale
The validation spiral isn't a mindset issue or something that lives in your head. It can have real physical consequences and be devastating to your mental health. In the last forty years, our society has been re structured around the free market as the ultimate test of value and proof of worthiness. And now everything can be turned into a commodity, including ourselves. That self destructive striving, it's the natural result, for many us, of the system, the neo liberal maritocratic system.
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