Jay Matthews

find the centres

1.start with existing centers or create strong ones that harmonize with the environment

But  I am my deeper and complete self when I build in community.

• building in public gives emptiness


• focus is on going and building deeper


• additional context of mutual trust


• psychological safety

Scalable future self-continuity interventions may open up new channels for enhancing health, education, and wealth.

And so that's the power of those intimate immensities is that they carry, they encode so much that that can be ingested and, and taken into our bodies. Um, even just being in the garden and having our hands in the soil and, and, um, receiving their sensory, um, messages that they carry to us. Um, it's just profound healing.

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Organizational structures are created and made more elaborate with the rise of institutionalized myths, and, in highly institutionalized contexts, organizational action must support these myths. But an organization must also attend to practical activity. The two requirements are at odds. A stable solution is to maintain the organization in a... See more