@arthurdoler
Arthur Doler Resources:
Boring details about me are at https://arthurdoler.com
@arthurdoler
Arthur Doler Resources:
Boring details about me are at https://arthurdoler.com
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@arthurdoler Why hello there.
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@arthurdoler When people ask what I do I always just tell them I solve problems
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@arthurdoler tag urself I’m the two dead fish in a bowl
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@arthurdoler “Beer” brand beer. For when you need to know it’s an actual beer.
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@arthurdoler Not pictured – approximately 321514 other crises
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@arthurdoler I took some artistic license – SARS COV2 is not a Langolier
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@arthurdoler Thus began The Case of the Missing Toilet Paper
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@arthurdoler Dun dun…. Dun dun…. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun d
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@arthurdoler DUN DUN DAAAAAAAAA
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@arthurdoler The person in the bathroom has been thoughtfully omitted
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@arthurdoler “How did you catch soup on fire?”
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@arthurdoler Just… eating 2-day old Orange Chicken on my Peloton while binging Tiger King
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@arthurdoler “I totally think Carol’s husband is tiger food.” “Why are you here?!”
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@arthurdoler Or tolerated it, in the case of most cats
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@arthurdoler Wearing a thin path into the carpet
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@arthurdoler “… where is all the cream cheese?”
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@arthurdoler “WHERE IS ALL THE CREAM CHEESE?!”
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@arthurdoler “What if there’s never any cream cheese again?”
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@arthurdoler “All I wanted was some cream cheese for my bagel…”
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@arthurdoler Not exactly comfortable, but your code will smell nice
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@arthurdoler One weird trick your chiropractor will hate
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@arthurdoler Movin’ on up! ♫
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@arthurdoler The Rock of Damocles
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@arthurdoler
Your brain and you
The Walled Garden & the Dark Forest
Your brain during the pandemic
Surviving the fire
Handling the next fire that comes along
A roadmap for the next
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@arthurdoler Thoughtbags may be larger than depicted in this image
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@arthurdoler “Thanks, that’s very helpful.”
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@arthurdoler "Trauma and Shock“, American Psychological Association
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@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
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@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
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@arthurdoler The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank
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@arthurdoler
WHEN YOU GET INDIGESTION YOU DON’T
FEEL LIKE YOU FAILED
“O my own stomach, why dost thou attack me?”
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@arthurdoler
YOU DON’T FEEL BROKEN WHEN
SOMEONE ELSE GETS INDIGESTION AND
YOU DON’T
Unless you really like the flavor of antacids, I guess?
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@arthurdoler Work being the most important part of your life, of course.
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@arthurdoler lol, lmao
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@arthurdoler #1 champion organ
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@arthurdoler This is the talk where I draw a lot of headbands apparently
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@arthurdoler More like the ego-centric bias, am I right?!
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@arthurdoler Pets who want fed also count
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@arthurdoler Rough measurements of the meat sac in your cranium
@arthurdoler Surely this won’t be so bad. Might as well make the best of it…
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@arthurdoler Citation on this one is literally everyone’s lived experience
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@arthurdoler It happens over and over and over
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@arthurdoler
WE STARTED TO ENCOUNTER:
A lack of forward progress
Emotional problems
Physical health problems
Diagnosable mental problems
As the indigestion spills out into the rest of our existence
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@arthurdoler I’m assuming it doesn’t suck as I’m giving this talk, which seems like bad odds
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@arthurdoler Stop, drop, and roll, maybe?
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@arthurdoler It’s distressing to do but it hurts less than constantly failing
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@arthurdoler Ha ha ha ha no, but seriously
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@arthurdoler Are the murder hornets still out there? Does anyone know?
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@arthurdoler
SEEK CONTROL IN LIMITED, REASONABLE
FASHION, EVEN IF IT’S NOT “USEFUL”
Key word here is “reasonable”
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@arthurdoler Maybe you really like neon green
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@arthurdoler It’d be a super depressing talk if we couldn’t.
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@arthurdoler
WE ABSOLUTELY CAN.
You can believe me, because I’m a Thought Leader.
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@arthurdoler Frazier, et al., 2009.
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@arthurdoler
STRATEGIES FOR RECOVERY
Managing the path back to being okay
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@arthurdoler Time to give a talk inside another talk!
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@arthurdoler
FIND AN ACTIVITY WHERE YOU CAN SEE
THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE
Give and Take, Grant
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@arthurdoler It’s essential to do, but… good luck!
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@arthurdoler Or at least returning to some kind of baseline
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RECONNECT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
… assuming you want to!
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@arthurdoler “I have specific comfort needs.” “So, let’s talk about that…”
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@arthurdoler
COGNITIVE
BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
(CBT)
Retraining the Conscious/Autonomous dynamic
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@arthurdoler This slide sponsored by Flava Flav
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@arthurdoler Bubble-gum flavored drugs were the worst.
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@arthurdoler Just tell them a Thought Leader said it was okay.
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@arthurdoler Make sure to tell your boss I said so, too.
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@arthurdoler Or at least find a direction for that path.