Nathan Viennet WRIT 340 blog

     When choosing to read Resilient: how to grow an unshakable core from Rick Hanson I was expecting insight. That is not what I gained. I think I gained something much more important from it or at least something that I at present value much more than insight.       I won’t go into detail but with my choice of college came another very complicated decision that I had to make. Although I’m confident I made the right decision, that does not mean it is any easier to cope with it. I was hoping that Resilient would bring many novel ways of understanding how I felt and how to deal with it. I wouldn’t say it disappointed in that sense because I believe that it actually would be tremendously insightful for many people. However (not to brag or anything) but I already figured out most of the stuff on my own in the past 6 months or so.       But this is not to say I found Resilient useless, quite the contrary. Even when I knew deep down that...

To: Clark Hansen  From: Nathan Viennet  Date : 03/08/2024 Subject : SmartFish investment proposal  This memorandum has the intention of putting forth a potential investment that could be highly beneficial to Anima Mundi. SmartFish is a Mexican based company that flawlessly embodies the triple bottom line that we value here at AMDP. The Smartfish group is composed of 2 entities, the SmartFish NGO and SmartFish Inc, both work in synergy with fishing cooperatives in Baja California (Mexico) to help them “earn more by fishing less”. The NGO trains the fishermen to  better practices while Smartfish Inc, which I believe we should invest in, buys their production for up to 400% the price they would get for it otherwise. These practices help protect the fishermen but also the environment in which they live, as their fishing practices are far less damaging to the environment.  Definitions :  Triple bottom line : “ The triple bottom line is a business concept that st...

  I chose to read resilient by Dr Rick Hanson, and I must admit to some extent it was because it got here faster on amazon. However this is not a completely random choice either and I do think I will get quite a lot from it. I have had a tough last 6 months emotionally and a lot of it has been spent thinking and trying to understand myself. So this book was naturally appealing and I wanted to see what matched and what differed between the way I handled it and how the book describes it.  If I’m being honest I’m not really into self improvement and such things I just try to solve my issues in the most pragmatic way possible and by not considering my emotions. To me this seems to work pretty well and it allows me to make good decisions. However these are usually quite emotionally taxing and often my choices are hard to take in even knowing they’re right. So I'm hoping to get maybe a second point of view from this work.  According to some of the comments the book also talks a...