Thinking and Acting For Yourself

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this podcast episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife speaks with Sherrae Phelps of Ten Thousand Hours of Writing Podcast about the topic of thinking for ourselves. In this episode you will learn more about how to make your own decisions based on your integrity and moral compass rather than approval of others. To hear more from Sherrae Phelps, visit her at www.tenthousandhoursofwriting.com. “One of the things that interferes with our ability to think for ourselves is our need and desire for approval—our desire for other people to acknowledge or validate what we do. The more we depend on that, the more it will distract us from our own internal compass. You don’t want to cut out the voices of other people—-that would be immoderate in the other direction. But you don’t want the voices of other people to distract you from your own compass, because your own compass is an important source of knowledge and this is a gift to us.” –Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Within many religions, the idea of being a disciple is encouraged and honored and viewed as a pathway for growth, wisdom, and for spiritual and emotional development. But when discipleship is misused it encourages dependency rather than independence and in turn, limits one’s growth and development and wisdom. Discipleship is about acting not about being acted upon. In this interview, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife talks about what it means to be a disciple that thinks and acts for themselves. To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our website, check out our course page, and take a look at our upcoming events.

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0:00.0	I think a lot of religions kind of support that and encourage the discipleship and I think it's good.
0:07.1	I think it's definitely a pathway that fosters growth and development and encourages, you know, leads to like emotional spiritual development.
0:18.0	But I also see maybe discipleship misused.
0:25.0	Yeah, kind of encourages dependency.
0:28.0	Exactly.
0:29.0	There's a difference between discipleship and dependency,
0:32.0	and we often canlate the two.
0:34.4	Yeah and I think that's what gives citizenship is a kind of discipline and it's a kind of
0:40.0	thoughtful yielding to something where dependency is a kind of blind yielding
0:46.1	that without not taking responsibility for oneself and the two get interchanged
0:51.5	and misused all the time.
0:53.6	In my opinion, like I think being a disciple encourages
0:57.2	someone who's believing and someone who's teachable
1:00.2	and able to trust.
1:04.0	But sometimes I think we call behaviors like someone who's gullible or who's easily manipulated or easily controlled.
1:12.0	I think sometimes we call those behaviors. who's easily manipulated or easily controlled.
1:12.7	I think sometimes we call those behaviors,
1:15.2	believing and teachable and trusting,
1:17.2	but they're different.
1:18.6	So I'm just in a very general way, I guess,
1:21.1	what's the difference between those two being
1:25.0	even global or teach bowl and yeah I think that being you know right so the value of being humble, by the way that I think of humble, is to be teachable,
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