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Date: 2008-09-12 12:01 am (UTC)Not entirely. Experience. Looking at previous life experiences and breaking them down into "why" and "how did I contribute to that mess."
You have to break yourself out of the fear (or whatever emotional response is holding you back). Therapy can help that. You have to want to live differently, be different.
Realizing I *wasn't* synthesizing information helped. (Like realizing I'd gone to college for six years just *assuming* I'd get a liberal education because that's what college **was,** without ever parsing out what "a liberal education" meant to me, and looking at the classes I was taking, and realizing that wasn't what I was getting. DOY.) I was really good in the structure of western education (school), but I suck at LIFE. I never took any class that "taught me how to think." I'm not sure anyone could have at that point. I wish I had challenged myself in that way, though; it might have helped.
Life coaches, actually, can be helpful for some things. But therapy really needs to come first.