Podcast Summary
The Long-Term Effects of Shaming on a Child's Mental Health: Shame can cause a person to feel inadequate and broken, leading to deep-rooted emotional trauma. It's important to address and deal with this trauma to cultivate meaningful experiences and make positive changes for the future.
Shaming a child can have long-lasting effects on their mental health and personal growth. Shame is an all-encompassing emotion and experience that makes a person feel inadequate, broken, and irreparable. Middle-age is a critical time for self-reflection and assessing one's life and making positive changes for the future. It's essential to reallocate one's direction and cultivate meaningful experiences. Shame and guilt are different; guilt is feeling remorse for a specific thing, while shame makes individuals feel inherently defective. It's crucial to address and deal with deep-rooted emotional trauma and conditioning that causes bad habits and responses.
The Evolutionary Roots of Shame and Imposter Syndrome: Shame was once adaptive as a signal for danger from the tribe, but now causes disconnection. Imposter syndrome stems from the reframing of shame as 'not enough,' leading to feelings of inadequacy.
Shame is a response to a threat and a stress response. It has a relational component of disconnection that sets a person apart in an irreparable way. Shame was once far more evolutionarily adaptive as it was a signal for when someone wasn't with their tribe and in danger. Humans are tribal by nature, and to not be part of a group is hurtful and gut-wrenching. Imposter syndrome is rooted in the reframing of shame and the idea that achievements and efforts are insufficient, leading to a feeling of 'not enough.'
Overcoming Shame and Imposter Syndrome: Acknowledge and name shame to overcome it. Recognize telltale signs and take steps to remedy it before it leads to loss in cognitive function. Avoidance of shame perpetuates negative feelings and turns the brain function to that of a lizard.
Shame and imposter syndrome are common among people seeking advice from a clinical psychologist. Shame triggers a hiding response and prompts feelings of vulnerability, which perpetuate the notion of not being enough. Bren Brown's work on shame and vulnerability shows that naming shame is crucial to overcoming it. Shame is like a storm that can cause a cognitive loop of negative thoughts and feelings of helplessness. Being aware of telltale signs can help recognize shame and take steps to remedy it. The avoidance of shame may lead to a loss in cognitive function and turn the brain function more like a lizard than a mammal.
Understanding and Handling Emotions in the Tech World.: Recognizing and naming emotions is the first step to gaining awareness. Standing on what's true for us helps us overcome shame, learns and grows by cultivating a network of diverse podcasts.
Naming and defining our emotions is the first step to gaining an understanding of them. Awareness is the key aspect of any remedy, and being grounded in what we're optimizing for helps us be less shamed. Standing on our sacred ground means not fighting back or retreating in hiding, but standing in what's true for us. Shame is the fear that we're not good enough, and it's the most powerful master emotion. Every day in the tech world, the line has moved as technology progresses. Transcending the typical and cultivating a network of podcasts that focus on different areas helps us learn and grow every day.
Honesty and Self-Awareness in a Fast-Moving Software World: It's important to recognize our uniqueness and make choices that align with our skills and life stages, instead of striving for contentment based on societal norms. Working together in harmony can maximize our potential and reduce risk.
In a fast-moving world like software, it's important to be honest and recognize what fits for oneself instead of striving for contentment. Everyone's life stages and choices are different, and it's not about shaming oneself for wanting more or not being enough. Instead, it's about recognizing the superpower of choice and the domino effect of ramifications from those choices. It's about being vulnerable and standing in the mirror, looking at oneself, and recognizing that there's no one else like oneself. In a social species, everyone has different skills and aligns with different work. It's about working together in harmony instead of everyone having the same skill, which puts us at risk.
Practicing Honesty and Authenticity through Understanding Identity: Acknowledge and negotiate with your inner critic and little kid to prioritize kindness and compassion towards yourself. Finding compassion in another person can also help manage shame and avoid belittling inner dialogue.
The importance of understanding one's identity is crucial in practicing honesty and authenticity. It is like fitting a tailored outfit perfectly. However, the inner critic or bully can often get in the way of recognizing one's true self. By acknowledging the little kid and inner referee inside us, we can negotiate and find compassion towards ourselves to avoid belittling and demeaning inner dialogues. Shame often hinders connection with others, but one of the remedies for managing it is finding compassion in another person and recognizing that we don't need to do better or different. The self-regulating referee inside us provides feedback, but it's important to prioritize kindness and compassion towards oneself.
Building a culture of openness and honesty to overcome imposter syndrome and self-built walls.: Sharing struggles with trusted people and embracing vulnerability can create a supportive atmosphere, leading to personal growth and stronger team collaborations in the tech industry.
Sharing our struggles and vulnerabilities with trusted people and building a culture of openness and honesty can help us overcome imposter syndrome, feelings of disconnection, and self-built walls. It's important to recognize the difference between secrets and private matters while acknowledging that hiding can lead to disconnection. The tone and tenor of live communication affect how we feel and respond. A feedback loop from our trusted circle can expose the falsities in our thinking and remind us that our crazy isn't as crazy as we think it is. It's liberating to not have secrets and to participate in vulnerability rather than hiding. This can also create a supportive atmosphere in team collaborations in the tech industry.
The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Fight, Flight or Freeze Responses: When faced with shame, the sympathetic nervous system takes over, limiting our awareness and creating tunnel vision. Recognize communication patterns and tone to avoid misunderstandings and remember the autonomic nervous system regulates our internal organs without us having to think about it.
The sympathetic nervous system prepares us for fight, flight or freeze by increasing heart rate and blood flow to muscles, while the parasympathetic nervous system reduces heartbeat and increases digestive secretions. When faced with shame, the brain activates the sympathetic nervous system generating fight, flight or freeze responses. In this state, our awareness is limited so the rational brain may not have enough awareness-focused brain power to evaluate the situation. As a result, our brain may see things far more narrowly, creating tunnel vision. It is important to recognize communication patterns and tone, as sometimes a brief response may be mistaken as something it's not. The autonomic nervous system plays a role in regulating our internal organs without the need to think about it.
The Role of the Insula in Emotional Regulation and Connection.: Recognizing and naming emotions can help navigate them and connect with others. Identifying one's support system and utilizing a soothing system are vital steps in emotional regulation.
The insula, a brain structure deep in the cerebral cortex, acts as a control tower and regulates interactions between different brain regions that regulate internal body focus and behaviors when experiencing emotions like shame. Emotion is important for driving connection with others, and being able to recognize and identify the threat and emotions is key to navigating through them. Identifying one's tribe, or those who can understand and support during emotional experiences, and utilizing a soothing system are important steps in this process. While it may be difficult to reason with emotions, it's important to recognize and name them to better understand how to navigate them and connect with others.
Nurturing Creativity and Mental Health Through Vulnerability and Mind Management.: Avoid leading with shame, embrace vulnerability, identify strengths and areas for growth, and do your best authentically. The critic who counts is the one who dares greatly. Mind management can boost software performance.
Shame and inadequacy can hinder creativity and lead to mental health issues. Leaders should avoid leading with shame and manage vulnerability carefully while identifying strengths and areas for improvement. It's crucial to understand that showing up and doing your best with what you have is an essential part of being authentically yourself. The critic who counts is the one who dares greatly and knows victory or defeat, rather than the one who points out others' mistakes. There's a direct connection between managing the brain and building software, and understanding this connection can help in optimizing for better constructs.
