Seth Godin often talks about the importance of collecting dots … and how you don’t necessarily need to see the connections immediately. Collect enough interesting dots, and eventually the connections will become clear. ‘Dots’ might be meeting someone new, learning a skill, or understanding a concept. Quality control is important – some dots are more valuable than others … and
It’s hard to say no to things … Invitations. Opportunities. Cake. Most of us know we should decline more often than we do, so why do we keep saying Yes? Leaving the cake to one side, we say Yes in business for a variety of reasons – we don’t want to let people down, we’re worried about losing a potential
Boundaries have come up in a lot of my conversations recently. They need to be defined and understood – both by ourselves and the people around us, whether that’s at work or at home or at play. Clear communication is crucial. [As usual]. Some boundaries will be ‘hard red lines’, rarely crossed [“I don’t work weekends”] – while others will
When I first read Stephen Covey’s ‘7 Habits’, one of the many concepts that jumped out was his ‘Maturity Continuum’. The core idea is that our emotional maturity is a progression, from You to I to We. ‘You’ is where we are dependent on others, thinking they control what happen to us. ‘They’ might include our boss, parents, partner, the
“Education is a process of intergenerational transmission.” Zak Stein Much of our learning happens at school – and if we agree with Zak Stein [a co-founder of The Consilience Project], it doesn’t end there: our education is a continuous, ongoing process. Teaching is a crucial part of that transmission. When teaching beginners to play drums, I was very much ‘telling
Listening to historians Dan and Daniele, I was struck by their discussion of ‘progress’. They both have a wide-boundary view of the human journey: history is not a story of simple linear progress – things don’t always improve over time. There are ups and downs, and perhaps most crucially, our definition of progress very much depends on where we are
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