Bright’s Reviews > The Gifts of Imperfection (Hardcover) 10th Anniversary Edition and WORKBOOK For The Gifts of Imperfection > Status Update

calm as creating perspective and mindfulness while managing emotional reactivity.

[Dr. Stuart] Brown proposes seven properties of play, the first of which is that play is apparently purposeless. Basically this means that we play for the sake of play. We do it because it’s fun and we want to.

There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t.

Comparison is all about conformity and competition.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Intuition is not a single way of knowing — it’s our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we have developed knowledge and insight, including instant, experience, faith, and reason.

Most of us are not very good at not knowing. We like sure things and guarantees so much that we don’t pay attention to the outcomes of our brain’s matching processes.

“ ‘ in many instances, we equate ordinary with boring or, even more dangerous, ordinary has become synonymous with meaningless.’”

Lynne says addressing scarcity, doesn’t mean searching for abundance, rather choosing a mindset of sufficiency

I’ve learned that an attitude is an orientation or a way of thinking and that “having an attitude “ doesn’t always translate to a behavior.