Rob Tourtelot
- if I tell exactly the story I’ve set out to tell, I’ve failed. The truer story exists somewhere outside the margins of consciousness. Writing constraints help us discover the truth rather than recite it.
from The One (and Only) Technique That Finally Helped Me Write About Trauma
Always provide a physical location for every moment of your story.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Dan Kennedy
Big stories are hard stories to tell, because the big parts of these stories are often singular in nature. Unusual. Unique. Hardly relatable. This holds true for all my big stories.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Dan Kennedy
- You’re right that profound grief quickly pushes you away from both certitude and indifference, which are unproductive feelings—
That’s right. Certitude and indifference. They’re the problems with this world.from Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life by Amanda Petrusich
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders don’t tell people, they don’t direct people, and they don’t order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: “What would ‘great’ look like?” 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
The best stories are a little messy at the end. They offer small steps, marginal progress, questionable results. The best stories give rise to unanswered questions.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Dan Kennedy
- For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first s... See more
from Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. by Tara Brach
You can do this now by focusing on the feeling that there is much more to life than you understand.
from How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke
- An enlightened being sees their agony without diminishing its reality. In other words, it doesn’t just turn away from it—but, on the other hand, simultaneously sees everything, including that agony [and] including hell, actually, as bubbles of bliss in an ocean of bliss. That’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that the ordinary mind cannot get arou... See more
from Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True