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Studying benefits of saying "no" + Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health

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Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health
https://iai.tv/articles/medicines-bad-ph...-auid-2225

INTRO: In recent years medicine has increasingly recognized a connection between mind and body and how the interaction between the two can affect our health. But in its effort to avoid a problematic separation between mind and body, medicine has been led astray. Due to misunderstanding what in philosophy is called mind-body dualism, trained medical doctors end up over-diagnosing conditions as psychosomatic, automatically construing medically unexplained symptoms as psychiatric problems. This is a philosophical error that ends up putting the health of patients at risk, argues Diane O’Leary... (MORE - details)


Why four scientists spent a year saying no
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02325-3

INTRO: We are members of a group of mid-career environmental social scientists who have met weekly for a decade to give each other feedback on our research, which we wrote about in a previous column. Increasingly, we were bringing our work invitations and opportunities to the group, hoping that the members would serve as a ‘no committee’ that would help us decide which opportunities to reject. This led one of us to throw down the gauntlet: last May, facing pandemic and career burnout, this member whimsically suggested we make a game out of saying no by challenging ourselves to collectively decline 100 work-related requests.

Oliver Burkeman argues in his book Four Thousand Weeks (2021) that saying no is essential to create space and energy, so you can say yes to things that matter. Despite its importance, saying no wisely is a fundamental practice that many researchers (ourselves included) have not developed. Thus, we spent a year tracking and reflecting on our decisions to say no.

We logged our 100th ‘no’ in March 2022. We learnt that saying no requires more than a how-to guide. It involves rethinking priorities and empowering ourselves and our colleagues to set boundaries. We offer four insights to others seeking to align their finite energy with seemingly infinite possibilities... (MORE - details)

COVERED: Tracking helped make ‘no’ an option ..... Say no more often and to larger asks ..... Saying no is emotional work ..... Practise makes ‘no’ easier
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