💡 on caring deeply
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💡 on caring deeply
Caring personally is the antidote to both robotic professionalism and managerial arrogance. Why do I say “caring personally” instead of just “caring”? Because it’s not enough to care about the person’s work or the person’s career. Only when you actually care about the whole person with your whole self can you build a relationship.
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Meaning, it seems to me, is the product of caring, not vice versa. What we care about we value.
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Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
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The more we care about something — our money, our careers, our relationships, our self-image — the more serious we tend to become. We strive for more certainty, structure, direction, and order so that we’ll feel safe and have a “competitive advantage” in the world. But here’s the cruel paradox: the more we tend to care about something, the more we
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Care is about intention, patience, and impact. It’s the opposite of scalability; scalability is when you don’t care , when you think that the same user experience should be applied to everyone on earth.
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The roots of care lie in understanding. For me to care for a being, I must understand their essence and what it is for them to be happy, healthy, and harmoniously coexistent with their environment. This applies to care for all kinds of beings including ourselves. To care for a plant, I must first listen to what it needs to be well. This includes... See more
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Caring is an independent primary variable . You have to care first before agreeing or disagreeing can mean anything. And to do that you have to have a surplus capacity to care beyond caring about yourself, by working the “caring muscle.”
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Fixing → Caring: I start by moving away from the techno-deterministic pull of the language around ‘fixing’ and instead urge the use of ‘caring’. When we foreground the idea of care, it inherently embodies ideas of fixing, building, making — everything necessary to-take-care-of that particular thing, person, tree, insect, bird, animal, us, them,... See more