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Yesterday was another reminder that life is short. A friend of mine announced that his wife has been battling cancer and without a bone marrow transplant, she only has two months to live. Aside from the fact that she has otherwise been a healthy, viant woman who doesn’t do anything in excess, she also …
This month, many of the nation’s best and ightest high school seniors will receive thick envelopes in the mail announcing their admission to the collegeof their dreams. According to a 2011 survey, about 60 percent of them willgo to their first-choice schools. For many of them, going away to college will be like crossing …
Really good interview with Seth Godin, well worth a read…
Today, I’m thrilled to be talking to Seth Godin, bestselling author of Permission Marketing, Tribes, and many others. Forbes calls Seth a “demigod on the web,” and when I’m feeling uninspired and creatively drained, I often read through Seth’s blog and come away feeling refreshed and ready to create. …
A couple of years ago Nancy and I adopted a pair of kittens from our vet – Schumpeter and Wallace. This has been a bit distressing, for a variety of reasons. In consultation with several different vets at our clinic, and every other resource we could find, we tried everything we could think of …
Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship, visit http://www.thersa.org
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The human ain is a marvelous tool. However, it was designed for a very different world than we currently live in. As a result, it retains many design flaws that do not serve us well, especially in today’s business world where new ways of thinking and ongoing innovation are essential for success.
1. It jumps …
Great message here…
Yet in business, every day we are faced with thing hurtling toward us—changing customer buying patterns, changing competition, changing business conditions. Yet we don’t move, we don’t change. Yet we keep doing the same things, perhaps at a faster pace, spending more time working. We leverage technology–it enables us to do the …
Now we also know that if you study absolute world class, best virtuoso violin players, none of them put in more than about four or so hours of practice in a day, because that’s the cognitive limit. And this limit actually shows up in a lot of different fields where people do intense training, …
by Maria Popova”Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view . . we are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”It seems to be the season for fascinating meditations on consciousness, exploring such questions as what happens while we sleep, …
These are some good daily habits but as with all advice it’s finding what works for you. Can’t say I completely agree with the “let go of your results”, I think when we look at results we are looking at reality:
Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the …
