## Metadata - Author: [[Peter Kalmus]] - Full Title: Being the Change - Category: #books ## Highlights - Patience is usually the fastest way to get somewhere worth going to. ([Location 323](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B073SN835P&location=323)) - Guilt is a coping mechanism that allows us to merely limp along with our anxiety. It’s what we feel when we engage in some action that goes against our deeper principles, but that we don’t actually intend to change. Guilt is an insincere self-apology for a painful internal fracture. It leads us to symbolic actions that allow us to function with this fracture. Why not just heal the fracture? ([Location 386](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B073SN835P&location=386)) - Global warming lacks immediacy for most people. Even becoming well-informed doesn’t necessarily produce immediacy. For example, I know several astrophysicists who are well-informed about global warming, and who also have large climate footprints due to their frequent flying. When I independently asked three of them how they rectify this apparent contradiction, I was surprised when they all gave me the same reply, nearly word-for-word: “I just don’t think about it.” ([Location 2197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B073SN835P&location=2197))