Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
There is an effective middle ground where anger can be leveraged to make positive change. When anger’s heat burns brightest is the time to make plans
How to make your anger work for you
Anger can be motivating if you step back to analyze it
The people who build collective power are typically individuals who have lacked traditional access to individualized power. What they know too is that collective power is, well, empowering.
Collective power is energizing.
Collective power is generative.
Collective power is engaging.
Collective power is joyful.
Collective power activates others.
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Collective power is energizing.
Collective power is generative.
Collective power is engaging.
Collective power is joyful.
Collective power activates others.
Colle... See more
Rachel Happe • The Transformative Spark of Collective Power
Power and Company Culture
Zhuangzi argues that we must first be disorientated by language to discover that higher knowledge is beyond words.
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
We often raise issues of justice and equity not to advance meaningful social causes but to generate positive attention for ourselves by denigrating others. Sometimes this involves piling on—joining a Greek chorus of reproachful replies without contributing anything new—or exaggerating one’s moral outrage for dramatic value. In doing so, we dilute the impact of critical ethical issues and foreclose the possibility of productive public discourse. The goal is not to understand but to win.
As designers, it is our responsibility to explore the discomfort zone, design holistically, and consider the full range of possibilities of what we create.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
neural pathways we don’t use die off over time. What makes our brains hold on to these pathways — and create more — is not simply repeating the same things we’ve learned over and over again, but continually taking on difficult problems.
Stanford duck syndrome: How the myth of effortless genius hurts learning
Neuroscience and learning
In the aftershocks of this pandemic’s ever-shifting “new normals”, let us make sure we create space for new and better patterns of life to emerge
Urban Empathy: The Next Big Shift
research on intellectual humility has exploded in the past 10 years. Psychologists now have many different ways to assess intellectual humility. Social scientists know that possessing a high level of intellectual humility is associated with multiple positive outcomes, like having more empathy, more prosocial behavior, reduced susceptibility to... See more