Rob Tourtelot
- Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.
from Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All by Maria Popova
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- Itās hard to see which parts of your experience and opinions are distinctive and resonate without sharing them. In my experience, itās rarely the big grand vision that people are attracted to but rather something more mundane and grounded - something that has a clarity and weight about it that is distinctive.
from Rejecting Specialization by tomcritchlow.com
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders donāt tell people, they donāt direct people, and they donāt order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: āWhat would āgreatā look like?ā Here are a few oth
... See morefrom No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results (How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama in the Workplace, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results) by Cy Wakeman
- On the other hand, no person we have loved is ever fully gone. When they die or vanish, they are physically no longer present, but their personhood permeates our synapses with memories and habits of mind, saturates an all-pervading atmosphere of feeling we donāt just carry with us all the time but live and breathe inside. Or the opposite happens, w... See more
from Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing by Maria Popova
- Youāre right that profound grief quickly pushes you away from both certitude and indifference, which are unproductive feelingsā
Thatās right. Certitude and indifference. Theyāre the problems with this world.from Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life by Amanda Petrusich
Typical open-ended questions are variations on āTell me moreā and āHelp me understand better ā¦.ā
from Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Roger Fisher