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People are hungry for success—that’s nothing new. What’s changed is the definition of that success. Increasingly, the quest for success is not the same as the quest for status and money. The definition has broadened to include contributing something to the world and living and working on one’s own terms.
Blake Mycoskie • Start Something That Matters
But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
Resourcing is not mentoring or coaching, both of which assume some kind of superior knowledge.
Carol Sanford • Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans
You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
I realized that providing expertise is antithetical to cultivating agency, and I began seeking new ways to engage my client organizations. For example, I stopped offering organizational models and started emphasizing the use of living systems frameworks, which provide the structure for thinking but require participants to supply the content and do
... See moreCarol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
Creativity Is Inherently Collaborative
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Nature is a theater for the interrelations of activities:
Just a moment...
History’s heroes know something the rest of us don’t: fear isn’t the enemy; inaction is. What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward.