john silkey
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john silkey
Your beginner mindset in the topic is an asset. It helps you communicate more simply what you understand to be true.
“A draft is still a baby book. Don’t judge it by the standards of a grown up book.”
-Rob Fitzpatrick, Write Useful Books
“If you don't move with the land, the land will move you.”
From Sandtalk
Working with senses:
ex. With sound - my body takes it in and reacts to it. My reaction is the practice, the meditation. The sound is just happening in the field. If I get mad, frustrated, scared, delighted, that’s mine. Not the world’s, not the field’s.
At causal level - its realizing that the sound is just arising in the field of awareness. Its an
... See moreExperience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
i. The person waiting inside me
Reader vs co author
Joanne re values refresh facilitation
“Just a quick update on how St. Mark’s values refresh exercise went. I followed the plan you drafted ( a few months ago) - and it went exactly as we had hoped. You may not recall the dets - but your design intuition was spot on. In fact - it went better than we had hoped. “
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Cultivate mushrooms together- wakefultravel.com mushroom cultivation journal
She realized then that the company had no handbook for a global pandemic and no clarity about the nature, extent, or longevity of Covid-19.
Rather than trying to solve a problem she could not understand, Barry gathered her team to establish principles for decision-making under uncertainty. The team agreed on three principles: 1) make the safety of e... See more
Rather than trying to solve a problem she could not understand, Barry gathered her team to establish principles for decision-making under uncertainty. The team agreed on three principles: 1) make the safety of e... See more
Leading in complexity. We can’t have 100% knowns. There is no playbook.
focus on what you can control - how we think and make decisions to navigate complexity and learn.
As Parrish shows, we may imagine we are the protagonists in the story of our lives. But the sad truth is, most of us run on autopilot. Our behavioral defaults, groomed by biology, evolution, and culture, are primed to run the show for us if we don’t intervene. At our worst, we react to events without reasoning, not even realizing that we’ve missed ... See more
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
ii. 1/3 Concrete - tuning in to reality and senses and self and iii. What is it like to be human today?
Good summation of modern existence. We think we’re protagonists and authors, we’re really spectators and flotsam carried by our conditioning
“But here's the key: Start small and learn fast. Your first move doesn't need to be perfect; it just needs to teach you something. Focus more on the next small step that moves you closer to the goal.”
Shane Parrish