Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

Black Hole Words: To me, these are words that are commonplace in a given industry but everyone has a slightly different definition of them. You can have a whole meeting and if you don’t define the word, you just wasted an hour of everyone’s time. They suck all the meaning and consensus out of a room, out of a business, and out of a company.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
It was not fun to walk around with my ghosts, despite what my positive memories wanted me to believe. I think this is because inherent in “revisiting” is the palpable reality that everything ends, the reminder that soon the way you are experiencing your present moment will be the past; it too will end.
from Somebody That I Used To Know by Anna Fusco
A sign of emotional intelligence is moving from “You made me feel” to “This is how I reacted.” Our emotions aren’t caused by other people’s actions. They’re shaped by our interpretations. Blaming others gives them power over our feelings. Taking responsibility empowers us.
by Adam Grant
twitter.com
emotional intelligence
This is, for many of us, the dream: unfettered commitment to externalizing our innards without concern for any gaze but our own. Reclaiming one’s time, you could say. But it requires nothing short of a battle.
from When a hobby becomes a job by Marian Bull
loving the process
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll conf
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from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian
gut feeling
Four Ways to Make Grief More Bearable
by Arthur C. Brooks
theatlantic.com
Grief
In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on g... See more
from Glimpsing God by Nadia
loving the process
When a manager assigns a team a difficult but achievable job, the moderate stress of the task releases neurochemicals, including oxytocin and adrenocorticotropin, that intensify people’s focus and strengthen social connections. When team members need to work together to reach a goal, brain activity coordinates their behaviors efficiently. But this ... See more
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
All we ever seek, and all we ever avoid are feelings. Feelings run the world. They constitute the only useful product of all material transactions between humans and their environment. Just like your body can’t use the food it eats for energy until it’s turned to glucose, we can’t really make use of the things we seek until they deliver certain fee... See more
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
feelings run the world

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

from Somebody That I Used To Know by Anna Fusco

from When a hobby becomes a job by Marian Bull

from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian

Four Ways to Make Grief More Bearable

from Glimpsing God by Nadia

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

from What you want is never a thing by David Cain