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Kind Mind Gathering: Flexibility and the Risks of Rigidness

Join this monthly virtual event which includes a message from Todd about flexibility, a Q/A session, guided meditation and conversation around the meaning of life.

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The Dunning Kruger effect in psychology is a cognitive bias whereby people inaccurately overestimate their abilities or knowledge in a specific area due to lack of training, skills and self awareness needed to recognize incompetence. In other words, we don’t know what we don’t know.

One of the meanings of flexibility is spiritually pliant, indicating an attitude of openness and intellectual humility. It also implies a readiness to meet the unexpected without shock.

Flexibility of mind serves us well under strain and mitigates the risks of rigidness. This mental elasticity allow us to stretch emotionally in order to take the perspective of others while maintaining our center. We can then resume our original shape if desired.

Isolation from pandemic disruptions and lack of nuanced conversation behind our screens may have further eroded the banks of our common life-stream resulting in wider divides and obstinate hyperbola.

We will explore the deeper significance and etymology of flexibility in order to “be like water, my friend” as Bruce Lee simply put it.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken (not a beatitude but welcome wisdom for uncertain times).