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- Understanding the mind of another person is therefore enabled by getting perspective, not simply taking perspective.
from Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective - PubMed by Nicholas Epley
- 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
- I was dead tired of “should-ing” myself into productivity and overriding my own creative impulse and rhythm.
from Everything you want is on the other side of “should.” by Martina Gobec
the death of should
- I think a lot about the way visibility is mediated by digital communication. On apps, the only way to be seen is to speak. Silence is a meaningful form of communication, but it’s not one that social media apps have any patience for
- We need deliberative spaces that allow people to truly listen to one another and to be heard, to recognise and acknowledge each other, even in difference, to grapple with complexity and spark curiosity – in ideas as well as in why others believe what they do; to have empathy and also to be able to do the hard work of finding common ground on the sh... See more
from Assembly required - RSA Comment by Darrell Bouldin
Could citizen assemblies be a new model for the future of political decision-making, to overcome some of the challenges of our democratic crisis?
I continued to read the article and want to add the below, to build on the above question.
The more fundamental issue is that a system defined by elections, with political parties and politicians, is designed for short-termism, for debate, for conflict and for polarisation. It puts re-election goals and party logic ahead of the common good. Adding on new forms of democratic institutions like citizens’ assemblies to an electoral system does not address the underlying democratic problems of an elections-based system. So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Jorge Luis Borgesfrom You and Your Mind Garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- 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.
- To be lonely until it didn't scare her anymore.
from LEARN TO BE LONELY... Dear Ones — A friend of this page asked me today if I wo... | Official Website for Best Selling Author Elizabeth Gilbert by Elizabeth Gilbert
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- Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.
from Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail by Maria Popova