Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Place 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 moreThe process of cultivating taste is a lot like the writing and editing process. Here’s George Saunders on the revision process. “The way I revise is: I read my own text and imagine a little meter in my head, with “P” on one side (“Positive”) and “N” on the other (“Negative”)... This involves making thousands of what I’ve come to think of as
That's in part because our beliefs about it not only help make the world what it is, but make us who we are.
No single overarching theory of truth can encompass everything we would wish from such a theory, and indeed truth is never finally known; but that does not in any way invalidate the attempt.
-ian mcgilchrist, Matter with things

The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where
... See moreThis is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
Blurring the binary categorization of success and failure