A Verb is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By Shelly Palmer https://shellypalmer.com/2023/07/a-verb-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/
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locked in cycles of endless conflict
From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis We’ll see in this chapter that mimetic conflict is contagious. It can lead to a social environment in which everyone is reacting mimetically to everyone else. This dynamic keeps people locked in cycles of endless conflict, bound to one another through mimesis,
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Cultivate the Mood to Linger
By Susan K. Smith Sometimes, life is so painful that we actually shut God out. The fact that life can and does throw hardballs that knock us down is something we all know about. We have been there. We have found ourselves trying to get up and regain our footing, and our stability in a
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Let your life speak
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer My youthful understanding of “Let your life speak” led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. If that sounds like what we
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Makes You Come Alive
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown “Once, when I was seeking the advice of Howard Thurman and talking to him at some length about what needed to be done in the world, he interrupted me,” writes Gil Bailie in the acknowledgments of his book Violence
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Living Out the Verbs of Our Lives: Transitioning into Retirement
by David A. Shirey https://davidashirey.com/blog/living-out-the-verbs-of-our-lives-transitioning-into-retirement
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Master the Art of Business Narrative: A Game-Changer for Marketers
What’s the difference between your brand story versus your business narrative? Turns out, everything.
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10 Things I’ve Learned In 10 Years of Running My Own Business
By Stacey Burke https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/10-lessons-ive-learned-in-10-years-of-running-my-own/455133
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Innovation
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson This is a book about the space of innovation. Some environments squelch new ideas; some environments seem to breed them effortlessly. The city and the Web have been such engines of innovation because, for complicated historical reasons, they are both environments
people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they even thought
From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Who’s right? Today most experts agree that it’s not either – or. It’s not nature or nurture, genes or environment. From conception on, there’s a constant give-and-take between the two. In fact, as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do