My own work, and what I’ve observed and participated in, has convinced me that global change always begins from small local efforts that then connect with other small local efforts; after many years of hard work, of experimenting and learning together, these small efforts may suddenly emerge as a powerful global system of influence. Continue reading
Author: onetusk
Birth Order – Why We Are the Way We Are
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was my freshman year at Harvard, and I was going to the first lecture of “Justice” – one of the most popular classes on campus. The lectures took place in Sanders Theater packed by over a thousand students since it’s only offered once every three years. The first question the professor asked – please stand up if you’re the first born child in your family (inclusive of only children). I literally felt like everyone in the entire theater stood up – except me since I’m a youngest child. Why is it that such a high majority of Harvard students are first borns or only children? Continue reading
Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation
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Emotional Manipulation is Also “Covert Aggression.” Here is a list adapted from an article by Fiona McColl – Continue reading |
How Ritz-Carlton Maintains its Mystique
The luxury hotel chain reinforces customer-service values among employees by investing in daily training that revolves around storytelling
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When you really laugh, suddenly mind disappears
Laughter brings some energy from your inner source to your surface. Energy starts flowing, follows laughter like a shadow. Have you watched it? When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. Continue reading
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement
Ignorance is not absence of knowledge; ignorance is absence of awareness.
Ignorance is not absence of knowledge. If it was absence of knowledge then things would have been very, very easy—and cheap. You can borrow knowledge; you cannot borrow being. Continue reading
Do Not Look with Fear
Do not look with fear
on the changes and chances of this life; Continue reading
Finding Unity
Those who know do not speak;
Those who speak do not know. Continue reading
Give me what you have within you
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. Continue reading
ONE TUSK 