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Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data?

This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer people.

Queer Data demonstrates why it is important to understand, collect and analyse queer data, the benefits and challenges involved in doing so, and how we might better use queer data in our work. Arming us with the tools for action, this book shows how greater knowledge about queer identities is instrumental in informing decisions about resource allocation, changes to legislation, access to services, representation and visibility.

Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

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Queer Data explores how data practices reflect an incomplete account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer people.

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Bestselling author, longevity expert, and National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner reports on health, fitness, diet, and aging, drawing on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities--Blue Zones--around the globe. Buettner has launched a major public health initiative to transform cities based on principles from this book, an updated and expanded edition of his bestselling classic on longevity. His prescriptions for lifestyle, nutrition, outlook, and stress-coping practices will add years to your life and life to your years. , Buettner has blended his lifestyle formula with the latest longevity research to inspire lasting, behavioral change and add years to your life.

The latest Blue Zone is Ikaria, Greece, where strong, sweet wine, family, and a Mediterranean diet all play a role in longer life. Also new in this book is a reading group guide, designed for groups to read about, discuss, and implement many of the simple changes advocated for better health.

Region by region, Buettner reveals the "secrets" of longevity through stories of his travels and interviews with some of the most remarkable--and happily long-living people on the planet. It's not coincidence that the way they eat, interact with each other, shed stress, heal themselves, avoid disease, and view their world yield them more good years of life. Buettner's easy to follow "best practices" and list of healthy lifestyle choices from the Blue Zones will empower readers to live longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives.

A long, healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are you may live up to a decade longer. Buettner has led teams of researchers across the globe--from Costa Rica to Sardinia, Italy, to Okinawa, Japan and beyond--to uncover the secrets of Blue Zones. He found that the recipe for longevity is deeply intertwined with community, lifestyle, and spirituality. People live longer and healthier by embracing a few simple but powerful habits, and by creating the right community around themselves. In The Blue Zones, Second Edition

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The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

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"With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential."-Adam Grant, #1
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Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

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Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In The Myth of Normal (available for pre-order in U.S., Canadian, and UK editions, on sale 9/13/22), renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems are actually seeing an upsurge in chronic illness and general ill health. Prescription drug usage, high blood pressure, mental illness, and so many other troubling issues are on the rise.

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of "normal" as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how the toxicity of today's culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance.

Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society-and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Co-written with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Maté's most ambitious and urgent book yet.

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Scattered Minds The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder Scattered Minds Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder - is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder. It offers a completely new perspective on ADD and a new approach to helping children [...]

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Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.

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Peter Attia

Peter Attia, MD, is the founder of Early Medical. He received his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine and trained at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery. He also trained at the NIH as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma. He serves on the editorial board for the journal Aging. He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health, medicine, and longevity.

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Not a book, but still a great (and quick) read on intent vs impact.

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OPENING THOUGHTS

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." -Old Proverb

When I first heard the above proverb a few years ago, it washed right over me like rain water over a giant, protective umbrella.

The second time someone reflected this quote to me, it impacted me a little more than before, akin to being caught in a heavy rain with one of those thin, plastic-bag-like one-time-use rain covers, where you're still (mostly) dry underneath but the wetness of the plastic gloms onto your skin, leaving you mildly clammy and uncomfortable.

The third time someone recited this proverb to me, it was as if I had gotten caught in a violent downpour without a raincoat or umbrella. I was fully saturated by the torrent of meaning behind those words.

Each time this particular quote found its way into my life is representative of the unfolding of the three types of wisdom - received, intellectual and experiential, respectively - I wrote about in Course One of this series.

As I venture the path of becoming a therapist - someone whose intent is to help others navigate and make new meaning of their pain and suffering (which I perceive to be a good intention), I have been continuously humbled by how hollow and potentially wounding good intent is without paying equal (or more) heed to its trouble-making twin: impact.

Yes, my intention may stem from a desire to be of help, to be of use, to ease pain and suffering, and yet, I can think of many scenarios in which my ideas of being helpful may be a nuisance to someone else, with the potential to augment their suffering. Most of us have been on the receiving end of this, for example, when friends and family with the best and purest of intentions offer us unsolicited advice. The Growlers have a song that encapsulates this dynamic beautifully:

"There's nothing as depressing as good advice. Nobody wants to hear how to live their life."

Turns out, being a "good" human according to ourselves is not enough. It's far too reductionist to prioritize intent over impact in our interdependent and increasingly complex and entropic world.

COURSE TWO

It's not intent VERSUS impact, but intent AND impact.

We are relational creatures, which means from the moment we exit the darkness of the womb into our light-filled world, we depend on a caregiver to reflect and mirror back to us who we are and how we should be.

As the influential English psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott once boldly claimed, " There is no such thing as a baby, " to expound his belief that we cannot and do not exist in a vacuum. There is no such thing as being a good human or doing a good deed without someone to mirror that "goodness" back to us, or to receive that "good deed." As humans (and perhaps living organisms in general), we are biased towards anything that make us seem and feel like we are "good," and tend to dissociate from or disown anything that might make us seem and feel like we are "bad."

While there is an arsenal of self-protective mechanisms we use to defend against uncomfortable and unwelcome feelings and cognitions, splitting and compartmentalization are central to the conversation around intent and impact. In the former, we bifurcate and polarize views of our self and/or an other as a result of intolerable conflicting emotions. In other words, we default to black-and-white thinking.

In the latter defense, in order to avoid the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by holding conflicting values, cognitions, emotions or beliefs within ourselves, we inhibit "direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self-states" [1]. An example of this is someone who is a lead scientist during the week, and a church-goer on the weekends.

It's important to note that defense mechanisms are, by nature, unconscious. When one becomes conscious of and deliberate in using a specific mechanism, it no longer qualifies as a defense mechanism, but rather, a coping mechanism.

By examining intent and impact through the enactment of certain defense mechanisms, we can see how we split and compartmentalize our good intentions (or non-bad intentions) from impact. We have difficulty acknowledging and accepting that the two (intent and impact) may not always be congruent, that two truths - my intention was positive and it impacted my friend in a negative way, or what I said was construed as discriminatory and I am a good person - can exist in the same space.

Conflict is the result of mis- or a lack of- communication and understanding. Intent and impact are often at the heart of a conflict. There are two levels of communication simultaneously occurring: the person centralizing intent is doggedly defending against who they are, while the person feeling the impact is precariously prioritizing what was said or done (or not said or done).

The conscious use of compartmentalization may be helpful here as a way to distinguish who we are (our intent) from what we say or do (our impact), and to assist in cohering the dichotomy of being "good" while occasionally saying or doing something "bad." It is only through this recognition that space can open up for learning, resolution, and relationship.

Focusing on intent is an anti-relational act. It is self-centered, obstructs relatedness, and converts dialogue into monologue by centering the person whose intention it was (or wasn't). It is the natural effect of the Golden Rule, to treat others the way we would like to be treated, which emphasizes our own subjective experience.

Focusing on impact, on the other hand, is a relational act. It centers the other person's experience, creates space for self-reflection, furthers the conversation even if it veers from its original direction, and strengthens relatedness. It follows the Platinum Rule, to treat others the way they want to be treated, and recognizes that someone else may have a different lived experience from our own. Here, we step outside of our own subjective experience and into an other's subjective experience. It is only there, in imagining and relating to an other's lived experience, can we begin to understand and learn how better to harmonize intent with impact.

The very act of making a conversation about intent is a privileged action. I don't mean "privileged" solely in reference to race, gender, sexuality, class or ability, though it is often in these type of conversations where intent and impact are spotlighted and a focus on the latter becomes essential to repair and relatedness.

Two people (or groups) of equal social standing can fall into this dynamic as well, but the person or group who resorts to centralizing their intent keeps them and their identity at the center of the conversation and marginalizes the impact of their words or action on those around them. Doing so rigidifies and skews the conversation towards one side, and obstructs the organic back-and-forth essential to healthy dialogue.

The draw towards focusing on intent is natural, because it is a known variable, something within our control, and therefore feels psychologically safe. I know my intent, but I do not and cannot know (with certainty) the impact of that intent on another being. There is an element of that which is beyond my control, and that can be scary.

In situations where we are uncertain of how our intent might be received, prefacing or annotating what we are about to say or do with a declaration of intentions can feel good and safe, but it is an attempt to wrestle for control of the situation, to make the unknown known. It has the potential to stifle the other person's freedom to feel, react, or respond, and puts the burden on the other to make us feel "okay" [2].

CLOSING THOUGHTS

A dissociation of intent from impact is core to interpersonal conflict, but there are also vast implications of centering intent in how we make social, political and economic decisions in the world. I would venture to say that many billionaires, entrepreneurs, scientists, and political leaders started their careers with positive, decent, or at least neutral intentions, but over time, their failure to weigh and account for the impact of their businesses, products, theories, and visions are what puts their reputations at risk and makes them easy to crucify under the public eye.

On the receiving end of someone else's supposed intent, especially those with higher societal standing or power, we find ourselves distrustful and condemnatory, evaluative of impact over intent.

I do not wish to suggest that impact is necessarily more important than intent, but instead to draw attention to those occasions when we resort to intent as a way of warding off the difficult, uncomfortable, or anxiety-inducing feelings that naturally coincide with being confronted with different perspectives, experiences, and beliefs.

In those moments of rupture - however big or small - when there's a fracture in relatedness, can we pause and ask ourselves what we are protecting? And in that protection, what we might be prematurely foreclosing?

When we make decisions - however big or small - can we pause and reconcile our intent with our impact through reflection and recognition of the first- and second-order effects of what we say and do?

I think a striving for this kind of congruence between our intent and impact - one that leaves space for others to give us feedback - is essential to a more harmonious society and world.

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Striving for Harmony: Intent and Impact - Sum of Our Parts

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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." -Old Proverb When I first heard the above proverb a few years ago, it washed right over me like rain water over a giant, protective umbrella.