Conventional thinking, part 1
I recall a (really smart) friend of mine saying, many years ago,
A welcome place
Even though solitude is an inherently value-neutral word, many in western cultures would think of it negatively.
Possession and care
In her groundbreaking (no pun intended) book,
Multi-tasking vs. task switching
Where focus is required, multitasking is a neurological impossibility.
Here
The mind and the heart are very often somewhere in the past or the future.
Enough
Most human cultures – including our own – in one way or another lean on fear.
Simplicity and complexity
Oliver Wendell Holmes is quoted as saying,
Go slow to go fast
Whether one is talking about product development, dog training, weight loss, or just about anything else, “go slow to go fast” is a reliable basic principle.
Your 200-year present
Elise Boulding was a Norwegian-born, American Quaker sociologist …
Magic
We spend a lot of our lives being miserable about things that are either over or haven’t happened.