What does life expect from me? What is the meaning of my life? Where is the meaning in my life? The answers to these questions are extraordinarily hopeful. Every life counts, and each person has a valuable role to play. Continue reading
Author: onetusk
Thought for the Week – 11th September 2017 (2)
Thought of the Week – 11th September 2017
the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up
The more I am open to the realities in me and in the other person, the less do I find myself wishing to rush in to “fix things.” As I try to listen to myself and the experiencing going on in me, and the more I try to extend that same listening attitude to another person, the more respect I feel for the complex processes of life. So I become less and less inclined to hurry in to fix things, to set goals, to mold people, to manipulate and push them in the way that I would like them to go. I am much more content simply to be myself and to let another person be himself. Continue reading
The Puzzle of Motivation by Dan Pink
when I can accept another person,then I am assisting him to become a person
I have found that truly to accept another person and his feelings is by no means an easy thing, any more than is understanding. Can I really permit another person to feel hostile toward me? Can I accept his anger as a real and legitimate part of himself? Can I accept him when he views life and its problems in a way quite different from mine? Can I accept him when he feels very positively toward me, admiring me and wanting to model himself after me? All this is involved in acceptance, and it does not come easy. Continue reading
Thought for the Week – 4th September 2017
What we can learn from the Dalai Lama about leadership….
HBR: You’ve remarked that the Dalai Lama is a very distinctive kind of leader. Is there something we could learn from his unique form of leadership, as leaders ourselves?
Daniel Goleman: Observing him over the years, and then doing this book for which I interviewed him extensively, and of course being immersed in leadership literature myself, three things struck me. Continue reading
Thought for the Week – 28th August 2017
My belly is too much swelling with jackfruit…..
The original letter is held in the museum’s archives. Below is the version they have on display.
Transcript follows. Image kindly supplied by Richard Fellowes.
ONE TUSK 