#SilentSunday #forest #California #redwoods #nature

The forest 🌲seems extra quiet today—just a few birds 🐦‍⬛ flitting through the branches and the trickle of gurgling water from the rain-fed stream. #peaceful 💚

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Redwood giants, both fallen and growing, in Praire Creek State Park, #California —from a trip we made last Fall. 🌲💚

#OldGrowth #redwood #trees #forests #nature #naturephotography

One of my dear friends is a state scientist for California. In California if you trust state park beaches to not poison your kids and your dogs, if you appreciate companies getting cited and brought into line for dumping toxic pollutants in your backyard, if you align with all the ambitions we have in this state to meet climate goals -- who do you think is doing that work? It's state scientists who have been massively underpaid for years

Engineers make about 30% more doing the same work.

Watchmen
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A fatal flaw in the "be really hard on yourself as the mechanism to achieve" plan is that even when you achieve you absolutely cannot believe it, because you've really overtrained being hard on yourself. You see a systematic undervaluing that robs you of true information about your work.

So, one of the hallmarks of maladaptive high achievement I look for, as a psychologist studying productivity, is inability to really celebrate.