Things that make you go Hmmmm
We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity.
An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people’s commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders... See more
An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people’s commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders... See more
Restoring Sanity – book page – Margaret J. Wheatley
What do you do with your projects once you build them?
Do you just toss them into a “portfolio” and share it with potential employers when the time is right?
Or did you set out on this path to do something unique?
On the internet, you don’t need permission to publish your work.
Beyond that, you don’t need permission to share what you know.
The best way,... See more
Do you just toss them into a “portfolio” and share it with potential employers when the time is right?
Or did you set out on this path to do something unique?
On the internet, you don’t need permission to publish your work.
Beyond that, you don’t need permission to share what you know.
The best way,... See more
Dan Koe • The Fastest Way Create a New Life
Here is the thing: every technique, approach, tool, tip, and process, if not embodied, will only yield disappointment and more exhaustion.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Here in italics is “Letter to a Young Activist” as published in The Catholic Worker interspersed with my own commentary:
What a challenge that is . Any action one embarks on is undertaken with the hope of positive, tangible results. One must have hope that what you do will have an impact. But to the extent you... See more
Do not depend on the hope of results.
What a challenge that is . Any action one embarks on is undertaken with the hope of positive, tangible results. One must have hope that what you do will have an impact. But to the extent you... See more
Thomas Merton’s Letter to a Young Activist – Jim and Nancy Forest
And then there's the problem of specificity versus actionability. The advice that's specific enough to be useful ("don't date *Anna, it will end badly") creates weird paradoxes. If I don't date *Anna, do I still become the person who would later write this letter? The advice that's general enough to be robust ("be more honest with yourself about... See more
Joan Westenberg • Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam
Foraging vs Hunting
“Forage to find questions to ask. Hunt to find answers”
Passive vs. active. Or divergent v. convergent? Serendipitous vs. deliberate?
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.
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