January 2012
22 posts
“There really are large swaths of the world filled with people in deep need of...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson (via sabino)
“I have the strength of knowing I stood up for myself even though society frowns...”
– Why I Punched a Stranger
“To live is to learn, To learn is to know, To know is to grow, To grow is to...”
– Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia
“Evolution can only be the endless network of phenomena creating phenomena — and...”
– Nature’s finest gift to you
“Think about your role for a moment. You are one of millions, and though it’s...”
– Nature’s finest gift to you
“You don’t need to make masterpieces, but who better to do it? Masterpieces do...”
– Nature’s finest gift to you
“But I suspect the human drive to create is more forceful and urgent than we...”
– Nature’s finest gift to you
“that’s unfair but /
So is life, take a chance roll a dice
Money...”
– J. Cole - Work Out, posted on music blogs / The Hype Machine
Vaillant became a kind of godfather to the field, and a champion of its message that psychology can improve ordinary lives, not just treat disease. But in many ways, his role in the movement is as provocateur. Last October, I watched him give a lecture to Seligman’s graduate students on the power of positive emotions—awe, love, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy, hope, and trust (or faith)....
“To illustrate his point, he told a story about one of his “prize” Grant Study...”
– What Makes Us Happy? - Atlantic Mobile
“Most psychology preoccupies itself with mapping the heavens of health in sharp...”
– What Makes Us Happy? - Atlantic Mobile
The story gets to the heart of Vaillant’s angle on the Grant Study. His central question is not how much or how little trouble these men met, but rather precisely how—and to what effect—they responded to that trouble. His main interpretive lens has been the psychoanalytic metaphor of “adaptations,” or unconscious responses to pain, conflict, or uncertainty. Formalized by Anna Freud on the basis of...
December 2011
31 posts
“I had a professor who said, “You never make excuses for poor work.”...”
– Facebook’s Ben Barry On How To Hack Your Job :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“One of my favorite quotes is “Done is better than perfect.” That...”
– Facebook’s Ben Barry On How To Hack Your Job :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“Poems are like dreams. In them, you put what you did not know you did not know.”
– -Sylvia Plath
via Can dreams inspire our lives? - Quora
Crystallize Your Vision of The Successful Business...
Crystallize Your Vision of The Successful Business
So how do you determine critical, actionable assumptions in your business? You should start by crystallizing your vision. This is an important part of success anyway. In fact a classic book that studied many of the most successful entrepreneurs in history highlights this exercise as the single most important thing they did. “Visualize...
“Given the privilege of my education, experience, access, and financial status of...”
– Obliged to Do Meaningful Work | Smarterware
Ladies and gentleman, Ms. Gina Trapani! (On point, as always.)
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“What I’m interested in doing is nothing less than enabling a new economy,” she...”
– New York Startup Brings Art to the Online Masses | Entrepreneur.com (via jenbee)
“If women want to truly change it is not going to come from being in environments...”
– Gotham Gal: Elizabeth Taylor and 100 Women
Love you, @thegothamgal! Mwah.
(via jenbee)
Watch(via Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand | Video on TED.com)
“So someone could conceptually perceive that as a mistake. The only way that I would say it was a mistake is in that we didn’t react to it. It was an opportunity that was missed. So it’s unpredictable. We’ll paint this palate again. He’ll play it. I don’t know how we’ll react...
“An object in motion stays in motion
Making is momentum. Everything you make is...”
– –Chris Fahey, Co-founder, Behavior
via A List Apart: Articles: What I Learned About the Web in 2011
“Some people say that it is just good sense to gain experience and money and...”
– Real job or no? Thoughts from a real job.
I hope that’s what I’ll feel like in a little bit.
“In cross-training, the combination of two activities produces an improvement—an...”
– Making Yourself Indispensable - Harvard Business Review
“Doing more of what you already do well yields only incremental improvement. To...”
– Making Yourself Indispensable - Harvard Business Review
“I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars...”
– How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
“The lesson I learned from this is that it’s easier to hold to your principles...”
– How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
“Alber Elbaz speaks about “lightness” during interviews before his collections. I...”
– Pie Pops | Luxirare
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest... →
What Archie was trying to remember was how I was trying to learn in Chicago in around 1920 and was searching for the unnoticed things that made emotions, such as the way an outfielder tossed his glove without looking back to where it fell, the squeak of resin on canvas under a fighter’s flat-soled gym shoes, the gray color of Jack Blackburn’s skin when he had just come out of stir, and other...
“Never justify anger, only justify action.”
– Two methods for dealing with negative people
Acknowledge anger, but don’t justify your resentment (to yourself). In this case, you turn into the negativity you are resenting in the first place.
Justifying action means that you are working to do something different (rather than doing the...
“In order to cope with ill-defined problems, the designer has to learn to have...”
– http://design.open.ac.uk/cross/documents/DesignerlyWaysofKnowing.pdf
“Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think...”
– How to avoid terrible curses
“The insight at the heart of nonviolence is that we live in a tragic gap —...”
– iJourney: Stand In the Tragic Gap, by Parker Palmer
“There is no one who would shrink from his purpose here once it has been revealed...”
– iJourney: Love without Conditions, by Paul Ferrini
"WELL, BACK TO THE DAILY HUG."
We call routines “the grind”. High-friction, abrasive, maybe destructive. What if the friction was gentler and created something pleasant, like a needle scratching a record to produce music? You know what that sounds like. That sounds like a hug. When I wake up tomorrow, I’m going to rise from the bed and loudly announce to myself in a nasal voice, “WELL, BACK TO THE...