Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
Stories that do carry some element of truth can actually be the most troublesome, because we put a lot of stock in ‘truth’, no matter how selective and partial it may be. Perhaps, as your classmates years ago never failed to point out during P. E. lessons, you were ‘bad’ at sports. Okay, but maybe you were bad at sports because you preferred
... See moreSusan David • Emotional Agility
when humans are pressured into forming an opinion, they’ll often react by spouting babble that has little basis in fact or reason. Essentially, people tend not to have an opinion on something until they’re prompted for one, at which point they just hastily make one up. To make matters worse, humans don't like to change their opinion, as they think
... See moregurwinder.substack.com • The Opinion Pageant
Our focused attention is critical to filling the well. We need to encounter our life experiences, not ignore them. Many of us read compulsively to screen our awareness. On a crowded (interesting) train, we train our attention on a newspaper, losing the sights and sounds around us—all images for the well.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“autotelic personality,” or the ability to create flow experiences even in the most barren environment—an almost inhumane workplace, a weed-infested urban neighborhood.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
a ‘slow hunch’ – the anti-‘lightbulb moment,’ the idea that comes into focus over decades, not seconds.
Steven Johnson • How We Got to Now
trust hierarchy to build relationships
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
One client said his top two processes reminded him of a hammock: with these routines in place, he could be at ease, knowing not only what was ahead, but how he was going to tackle the many tasks of the day.
Amy Jen Su • The Leader You Want to Be
A good mentor won’t hand you the answers, but they will try to help you see your problem from a new perspective. They’ll loan you some of their hard-fought advice so you can discover your own solution.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
When problems are really tough, we need to get drawing. We draw to see what we think, in order to evaluate those ideas.