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- Khalil Gibran said, “ Work is love made visible. ” This is a much different position than our usual ‘ work is my identity ’.
from Three things I love about what I do by Brad Montague
Switch the question of 'What do you do' to 'What do you love about what you do'? - Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his ... See more
from Lazy Work, Good Work
Here’s a problem we don’t think about enough: Even as more professions look like Rockefeller’s – thought jobs that require quiet time to think a problem through – we’re stuck in the old world where a good employee is expected to labor, visibly and without interruption.
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
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Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comfrom Learn To Do Everything Lightly by Tina Roth Eisenberg
- Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.
from Subscribe to The Red Hand Files by NICK CAVE
- Innovative Ideas fuelled by Emotional Intelligence
from Jack London
- gnawing nostalgia for childhood
from who you are by Nix 🕊
- Empathy is a “capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices”. It encourages us to take shortcuts towards familiar and accessible feelings, values, and beliefs. Of course, all of this makes sense when we take an evolutionary perspective. As Bloom observes, “we are constituted to favour our friends and family over strangers,... See more
from Burst your bubble… about empathy | WARC by Ian Murray
Against empathy The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a
... See morefrom Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.
from Everything you want is on the other side of “should.” by Martina Gobec
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