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In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen. Illuminators, on the other hand, have a pe
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Get in Touch with Your Crayon Box
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
people who enjoy silliness are one third more likely to be happy.
Gretchen Rubin • The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
The high centrality participants, Sievers and his coauthors wrote, were much more “likely to adapt their own brain activity to the group,” and “played an outsized role in creating group alignment by facilitating conversation.” But they didn’t merely mirror others—rather, they gently led people, nudging them to hear one another, or to explain themse... See more
Make a Decision: Tigger or Eeyore
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
reflect the ways we most want to show up in the world.