Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk
Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out.
lesswrong.com • 100 Tips for a Better Life - LessWrong
This sudden interest in workplace experimentation is both welcome and needed, as much about how we work in the knowledge sector today is ossified into tradition and conventions, some of which are arbitrary and some of which are borrowed from different, older types of work. The proposals making waves at the moment, however, feel somehow insufficient
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Wonderful analogy
I think that’s where the burnout really hurts—when you want to care about something but you’re removed from the capacity to do the thing or do it properly and give it your passion and full attention and creativity because you’re expected to do so many other things.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community. We do not relate to others as the persons we are; we are who we are in relating to others. Simultaneously the others with whom we are in relation are themselves in relation. We cannot relate to anyone who is not also relating to us. Our... See more
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
We have been exposed to tens of thousands of negative messages telling us we’re not good enough since we were toddlers.
When we believe we are not good enough, we look for information to reinforce the belief. 👇 🙀
... See morePsychologist Amy Morin explains that “once you draw a conclusion about yourself, you’re likely to do two things; look for evidence that