Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Mounica Veggalam
mounicaveggalam.substack.com
Making sense of experience seems to be one of the
fundamental drives in human nature. This need for meaning is irrepressible and ongoing. Its ranges from the earliest beginnings of rudimentary distinctions that the baby starts to make even in utero up to the most elaborate explanations of why my spiritual path and my guru is superior... See more
Passionate Marriage (Pg 57)
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A GENERAL THEORY OF LOVE
dangers-a tacit embodiment of Pasteur's germ theory of disease, disgust affirms the invisible likelihood of contamination from rot ting foods and gelatinous excretions. Such lifesaving nauseous te vulsion is at least as ancient as the animal that takes most advantag of its existence: Mephitis mephitis, the striped skunk.
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... See moreThings that make a lot of sense
The various uses of emotions in evolution
one hemisphere's idea of truth is likely to be more fruitful than the other's. As we have seen in Part I, the aspect of reality revealed by the left hemisphere must be contextualised by being taken up into the broader, and deeper, overarching vision available to the right hemisphere; alas, when the left hemisphere takes the lead, it leads us
... See morePlace a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning over it, look down upon it. It will appear a circle. But now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your eye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and more oval to
... See moreIt is accepted wisdom within Silicon Valley that, as Marc Andreessen puts it, “agreeableness is a problem for innovation.” In my own studies of famous technology entrepreneurs, I have found this statement to be true. To build world-changing companies, to have extreme levels of success, does seem to require an extreme personality.
Evan Armstrong • The Right Kind of Asshole
Agreeableness does not build leadership
In life design we know that there are countless possibilities but aren’t stymied by that fact. We revel in exploring a few possibilities, then taking action by starting with a choice. Only by taking action can we build our way forward.