Things that make you go Hmmmm
What Would It Be Like to Restore Sanity?
What would it be like to work together again in creative and generous ways?
What would it be like to be curious about who you’re with rather than judging or fearing them?
What would it be like to engage together in exploring possibilities rather than withdrawing in conflict or disagreement?
What would it be... See more
What would it be like to work together again in creative and generous ways?
What would it be like to be curious about who you’re with rather than judging or fearing them?
What would it be like to engage together in exploring possibilities rather than withdrawing in conflict or disagreement?
What would it be... See more
Restoring Sanity – book page – Margaret J. Wheatley
First, I'll share one of my recent email declines: "This is such a fascinating subject, but I fear I've taken on too many blurb requests in the past few months and gave myself a self-reinforced pause. My apologies"
Anne Helen Petersen • How to Decline
How To Spot High Agency People
- Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
- Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
I’ve spent most of life and career thinking of myself as an agent of change. I grew up at the end of the Vietnam War protests, and mixed one part Brechtian activist theater to another part prophetic Judaism and ended up at the TWO protests and Occupy Wall Street. I really believed we could use those deliberate mechanisms to create policy, fight the... See more
Douglas Rushkoff • Everything is In-Between
The advice that would actually be useful is the advice I couldn't have followed.
Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam
I found the words that name the sickening song that has been playing in my shadows. I call it “Self As Drug” . The song goes like this:
I am valuable when I help others feel better.
I am responsible for regulating the emotions of people I love.
If I say no, I will hurt people.
If I set a boundary, I am betraying them.
If someone is hurting, I am... See more
I am valuable when I help others feel better.
I am responsible for regulating the emotions of people I love.
If I say no, I will hurt people.
If I set a boundary, I am betraying them.
If someone is hurting, I am... See more
Recovering From The "Self-as-Drug" Mindset
“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
If you attack the symptom without addressing the cause, you are in a state of endless war.