Book: The Mountain Is You

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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
Brianna West
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This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.

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Random Audiobook because I found out the local library in Macau now is on Libby and indeed has an online collection of books and audiobooks.

Riiiiight. So. Yes. The book resonated a lot with me. The thing is… I know my quirks and I know that those quirks are what’s blocking me. But as the Pingu-meme says, “I was going to do it, but now that you’re telling me to do it, I don’t want to do it.”

I agree with many points in the book. I just seem to refuse to change, or think that it’s not that bad and I can live with it. I also understand the compounding and ripple effect, that the one small change with lead to vast change, but just can’t be bothered.

So now I know the tools, I just have to… get myself out of this funk and actually use them, I suppose?