Each one of us tends to struggle with autonomy because this freedom is not permission to do anything we feel like at any time.
Don’t Just Live Your Life – Own Your Life
The form of this philosophy and discipline includes characterizing your identity, unifying your voice and recognizing your selfhood as America’s autonomous subject.
Arnold Siegel, author of Autonomy and Life, says owning our life includes characterizing your identity, unifying your voice, and recognizing your selfhood.
Confidence Through the Thick and Thin of Circumstance
Nothing less than actual sustained effort is required to attain the substantive intellectual, emotional and behavioral skills upon which success with the American experiment depends.
Difficulties with behaving responsibly and with achieving confidence in our executive functioning produces disappointment, disenchantment and more.
The Center Can Hold
What is different about life now? The ability of newly minted social and older media to spread, via the Internet, inflammatory rhetoric to billions of people 24/7.
Responsible autonomy is a creative feat, a moral obligation, and an independent accomplishment because we must be in control from the lower order.
Crunch Time
The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates. It’s not worth living because it leaves us without access to the elevated joys of wonder, creativity, gratitude, fulfillment and satisfaction.
Filtering Your Anger
We choose how we will behave — responsibly, morally, lawfully and productively.
Wake up and Smell the Coffee
We who study autonomy and life recognize that we need to be bound to be free.
The Matrix Redux
We, too, are subjects deeply rooted in a matrix—an enculturating matrix—and understanding how it works is critical to our ability to manage the enterprise of our autonomy.
When We Are at Our Best
When we put our ego-function to use authentically, we are free to create a life of our own design and able to enjoy it.
Finding Your True North
In our transcendent watch over the ego function ... we find our belonging, meaning, relevance and peace of mind.
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