Simon Sinek’s simple idea to start with why. To get a better feel, watch his 18min TED talk: How great leaders inspire action. I found his concrete example of “It was the ‘I have a dream’ speech, not the ‘I have a plan’ speech,” helps keep in mind the power of starting with why and painting a vision in order to inspire and lead. Now, if you have a vision, a strategy and a plan, well, then you’re in business. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
— Simon Sinek Simon’s has parallels with another I like: Products aren’t just things that you buy, they’re things that you buy into. — Dev Patnaik…Simon Sinek’s simple idea to start with why. To get a better feel, watch his 18min TED talk: How great leaders inspire action. I found his concrete example of “It was the ‘I have a dream’ speech, not the ‘I have a plan’ speech,” helps keep in mind the power of starting with why and painting a vision in order to inspire and lead. Now, if you have a vision, a strategy and a plan, well, then you’re in business. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
— Simon Sinek Simon’s has parallels with another I like: Products aren’t just things that you buy, they’re things that you buy into. — Dev PatnaikWWW…
The boss yells at the employee, the employee yells at their spouse, the spouse yells at the child, the child yells at their younger sibling, the sibling yells at the dog, and the dog pees on the rug. This scene is an excellent example of Emotional Hot Potato, where the "hot potato" emotion makes its painful way through each family member. Bad moods can be contagious, as can anger and anxiety. Our innate empathy can naturally transfer a bad mood from a coworker to ourselves. Emotional hot potato can also be a form of projection where we attempt to rid ourselves of an unpleasant emotion by transferring it or attributing it to others. By handling the hot potato of a teenage child's anger, for example, the parent may find themselves seething while the child feels better having passed on the potato. Another related idea is displacement. Strong emotions may build up in some interactions and it may not be appropriate, or wise, to vent those emotions, say with our boss or someone bigger than us in the playground. Instead, we might suppress the emotion until we can channel it onto easier targets, perhaps younger siblings or the dog. Ouch! More Robert Sapolsky mentions a similar idea in his book Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst and that it's not restricted only to people. He shares: "Stress-induced (aka frustration-induced) displacement aggression is ubiquitous in various species. Among baboons, for example, nearly half of aggression is this type — a high-ranking male loses a fight and chases a subadult male, who promptly bites a female, who then lunges at an infant." I learned the term from Lawrence Cohen in Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence, Ballantine Books, 2012. This sketch features in my book Big Ideas Little Pictures Related Ideas to Emotional Hot Potato Also see: How to Instantly Feel Better Fact tennis Languishing The 4 horsemen of relationship apocalypse Childhood is not a race Don't compare your front of house with others' back of house…The boss yells at the employee, the employee yells at their spouse, the spouse yells at the child, the child yells at their younger sibling, the sibling yells at the dog, and the dog pees on the rug. This scene is an excellent example of Emotional Hot Potato, where the "hot potato" emotion makes its painful way through each family member. Bad moods can be contagious, as can anger and anxiety. Our innate empathy can naturally transfer a bad mood from a coworker to ourselves. Emotional hot potato can also be a form of projection where we attempt to rid ourselves of an unpleasant emotion by transferring it or attributing it to others. By handling the hot potato of a teenage child's anger, for example, the parent may find themselves seething while the child feels better having passed on the potato. Another related idea is displacement. Strong emotions may build up in some interactions and it may not be appropriate, or wise, to vent those emotions, say with our boss or someone bigger than us in the playground. Instead, we might suppress the emotion until we can channel it onto easier targets, perhaps younger siblings or the dog. Ouch! More Robert Sapolsky mentions a similar idea in his book Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst and that it's not restricted only to people. He shares: "Stress-induced (aka frustration-induced) displacement aggression is ubiquitous in various species. Among baboons, for example, nearly half of aggression is this type — a high-ranking male loses a fight and chases a subadult male, who promptly bites a female, who then lunges at an infant." I learned the term from Lawrence Cohen in Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence, Ballantine Books, 2012. This sketch features in my book Big Ideas Little Pictures Related Ideas to Emotional Hot Potato Also see: How to Instantly Feel Better Fact tennis Languishing The 4 horsemen of relationship apocalypse Childhood is not a race Don't compare your front of house with others' back of houseWWW…
The effect you may have noticed where things further in the distance lose their intensity and colour until they fade into the sky. Most often noticeable with hills or mountains, but also in a misty forest as mist, dust, fog or things like pollution increase the effect. If it’s a blue sky day, the distance will take on a bluer tone like the colour of the sky. This scene painted from our ascent of Mt Rainier in the Pacific Northwest. And here’s a sunset version.…The effect you may have noticed where things further in the distance lose their intensity and colour until they fade into the sky. Most often noticeable with hills or mountains, but also in a misty forest as mist, dust, fog or things like pollution increase the effect. If it’s a blue sky day, the distance will take on a bluer tone like the colour of the sky. This scene painted from our ascent of Mt Rainier in the Pacific Northwest. And here’s a sunset version.WWW…
Psychic numbing is the phenomenon where we find it increasingly hard to empathise with the plight of larger numbers of people. A story about a family who needs help is much easier for us to relate to than, say, a story about 1000s of people displaced or dying. As the number increases, the situation gets more abstract, and we just can’t connect with it. See the work of Paul Slovic or this super article by Brian Resnick: A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion Other contexts where we see psychic numbing are the general withdrawal of people and societies from potentially major catastrophes that seem unlikely to happen. Individually, it may also be reduced engagement with a past traumatic experience. I read in Murphy's Law Book Two, by Arthur Bloch, Fuller's Law of Journalism, which goes, "The further away the disaster or accident occurs, the greater the number of dead and injured required for it to become a story." Also see: The singularity effect…Psychic numbing is the phenomenon where we find it increasingly hard to empathise with the plight of larger numbers of people. A story about a family who needs help is much easier for us to relate to than, say, a story about 1000s of people displaced or dying. As the number increases, the situation gets more abstract, and we just can’t connect with it. See the work of Paul Slovic or this super article by Brian Resnick: A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion Other contexts where we see psychic numbing are the general withdrawal of people and societies from potentially major catastrophes that seem unlikely to happen. Individually, it may also be reduced engagement with a past traumatic experience. I read in Murphy's Law Book Two, by Arthur Bloch, Fuller's Law of Journalism, which goes, "The further away the disaster or accident occurs, the greater the number of dead and injured required for it to become a story." Also see: The singularity effectWWW…
These large bottles are seriously impressive to see. They also have neat names from biblical kings for reasons I don’t know. There are a few more gradations, and some sizes and names are only for sparkling wines like champagne and some not. And there are some that even get significantly larger than the 20 bottles in a nebuchadnezzar, though I’ve never seen one.…These large bottles are seriously impressive to see. They also have neat names from biblical kings for reasons I don’t know. There are a few more gradations, and some sizes and names are only for sparkling wines like champagne and some not. And there are some that even get significantly larger than the 20 bottles in a nebuchadnezzar, though I’ve never seen one.WWW…
Mean world syndrome is the name given to the observation that people who watch more TV seem to believe the world is a more dangerous place than people who watch less. It's likely due to the prevalence of violence on TV and coverage of extreme events that are actually quite rare in most people’s lives. The term comes from cultivation theory — broadly the study of the long-term effects of television — which has a more general idea that people who watch a lot of TV tend to see reality more like the reality they see on TV. Term coined by George Gerbner. Also see: Addiction Languishing Psychic numbing…Mean world syndrome is the name given to the observation that people who watch more TV seem to believe the world is a more dangerous place than people who watch less. It's likely due to the prevalence of violence on TV and coverage of extreme events that are actually quite rare in most people’s lives. The term comes from cultivation theory — broadly the study of the long-term effects of television — which has a more general idea that people who watch a lot of TV tend to see reality more like the reality they see on TV. Term coined by George Gerbner. Also see: Addiction Languishing Psychic numbingWWW…
