It is not an act of power to strip power from others. True power does not feel threatened by the empowerment of others. Women have been stripped of their power by men for ages. Women may naturally feel a reactionary urge to immasculate men, however such an urge merely mirrors the same powerless behavior that… Continue reading Stripping Power from Others is Not Power
Category: Positive Thinking
Do We Only Focus on What's Positive?
A common (though incorrect) criticism of positive thinking is that it means one must ignore/deny negativity. Doug Krug’s excellent book, “the Missing Piece in Leadership” sums up nicely the misunderstanding and the reality: A frequently asked question is, “Are you suggesting that we only focus on the positive and ignore what’s wrong?” No. Telling the… Continue reading Do We Only Focus on What's Positive?
The Science of Creativity
Leo Widrich shares many strategies to increasing our creativity in his article, Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity (thanks, Titania Richard).
What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
NPR’s article, Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight discusses work by Harvard Medical School attention researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe, who find that radiologists overwhelmingly fail to see a gorilla placed on MRIs; implications of this study apply to everyone and how our expectations shape how we perceive (and fail… Continue reading What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
Throwaway Thoughts
I have a lot of creative friends: writers, designers, artists. They can all attest to one simple fact: we have a lot of ideas that just aren’t that good. This truth is not isolated to creativity. Or rather it is, but our definition of creativity is too limiting. We are creating thoughts all the time.… Continue reading Throwaway Thoughts
In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
The more I look the more I see in things their opposite. Assets are liabilities and vice versa. Pick just about anything and both arguments can be made for the good and the bad of it. So which to pick?Nobody wants problems. I do not want to wish problems on anyone. But problems happen; nobody’s… Continue reading In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity