I read somewhere that “Americans have a hard time closing doors” and it rang true to me as someone who was always intending to get back to stuff. Gonna start training again, gonna get the printing studio running again. I pictured every American man with a rusting muscle car under (many) tarps in the garage, just […]
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Making Up Stories About Work
In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami talks about trying to stop making lots of little decisions on a run. He wants to “just set the machine going” and then try to just watch himself run. This works because it shuts down the narrative-making impulse that’s always trying to decide where […]
Shame – Brene Brown
Perfectionism is not about achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfectly, look perfectly and act perfectly, we can avoid the pain of blame, judgment and shame.
Visualizing Your Priorities
My friend Jason Mundok walked me through this tool a few months ago and it’s really ingenious: SIMPLE and ingenious, which I guess is the whole point. This is something Jason uses to help make tough decisions about priorities and he explains how he’s used it personally in this cool little video. Definitely worth a look. And I love […]
Time Pressure Leads to Childish Thinking
Love this call out from an interview on NPR: So, if you want people to endorse hierarchical thinking, put them under time pressure or just get them drunk. They’re talking about research that when people enter low-thinking environments (such as when they’re drunk) they revert to mental models developed early in childhood: in this case […]