Quality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those inta... See more
And hereās the hard part. You canāt just decide fuck individualism, Iām blowing it up . You have to replace it with a better, more equitable story of who we are as a country and how we organize our society. Which, for a lot of people, would mean giving up a modicum of power. Liberal white people can loathe the effects of individualism and still ben... See more
These women have thoroughly internalized the male gaze, their to-be-looked-at-ness, and arrived at a place of incredible power ā as objects. Their struggle, as evidenced by the ample time we spend with those whoāve āretired,ā is figuring a sense of self outside of that objecthood.
A bunch of studies show that when we witness acts of kindness and pro-social cooperation by others we experience something called āmoral elevationā - we are lifted into optimism and altruism and feel inclined to spread kindness onwards. I referred to the way awe works to connect us into our humanity a few chapters back. A global study showed that 9... See more
So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. Theyāre carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think thatās a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. Weāre constantly moving between t... See more