Things that make you go Hmmmm
“The therapeutic is necessary, but unless you stop the source of violence, it’s irrelevant.” - Joy James
our Reverse Bucket List is an accounting of all the experiences that shaped "who we are" not because they were items on a "life plan" Bucket List but because their importance is only visible in looking back: we wouldn't be "who we are" now without these specific experiences.
This is how the Reverse Bucket List works.
1. The experiences are largely co... See more
This is how the Reverse Bucket List works.
1. The experiences are largely co... See more
Just a moment...
In his famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Steve Jobs described how we cannot understand the connective threads of our lives without looking back--a sort of "rear view mirror" Bucket List that only reveals itself by studying our own past.
Here is how Jobs summarized it: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them lo... See more
Here is how Jobs summarized it: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them lo... See more
Just a moment...
We need to do enough introspection and cultivate emotional literacy to be able to distinguish between feeling DISCOMFORT vs. | Joseph Oteng
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feminism, post-feminism, third-wave feminism, trad wives
We’ve created this world where left brain people are free to act on their fairly narrow rational behaviors without being policed. Whereas the burden of proof demanded of a creative act is literally 20 times greater.
– Rory Sutherland
Fabre d'Olivet, made a right comparison when he wished to show how the highest, noblest, purest in human nature arises out of pain. He said that the arising of wisdom and beauty out of suffering is comparable to a process in nature, to the birth of the valuable and beautiful pearl. For the pearl is born from the sickness of the oyster, from the des... See more