Growth Mindset
Never understimate the power and potency of well-facilitated reflection. This is our core service in 2022.
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DESK | But what ‘impact’ did you have in the long-term, really?
We were in teh middle of the discussions, me and some people I know now, thanks to the internet and progressive conversations that deep over time. About the world of the NGO, and their reach for ‘impact.’ I am telling you, standing by on the sidelines blogging this blog and other blogs for a while,…
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What Maya Angelou says about success that you cannot miss
Here’s an update to an old post, because it ties in very nicely with current conversatons that tend to veer at this time of year towards, ‘Reflection.’ The category of purpose, of knowing what matters, of undersanding ourselves, of taking time to suss it all and see what we want to do… next. This is…
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Julia sets, the kbach and wu wei: how I learned to let things flow
Once I found this quote… ‘The way you learn is the way you approach life in general. It is also the way you solve problems, make decisions, and meet life’s challenges.’ It adds that learning happens in any setting and goes on throughout life, and that the experiential learning process supports good things like getting…
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The Cost of Inaction II
According to the site Positive Psychology’s page on the topic, ‘the phrase “comfort zone” was coined by management thinker Judith Bardwick in her 1991 work Danger in the Comfort Zone. In which Bardwick writes: “The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors…
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The Cost of Inaction
Showing up is about risk—social risk, emotional risk, the risk of being seen trying. Want to make things, be creative, and meet new people trying to do the same? It’s not simple to find that kind of community, I think, partly because we hold ourselves back often due to overwhelming social programming. But I’m one…
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‘The life you’re living right now is the one you want to live’
Where do you get new ideas? In the new, of course. Where you have never been, where you might never have imagined you could be. A world apart, in other words, where you happen to be, when the moment hits you. The ‘a-ha’ moment. And after that, all that you’ve been unsure about clicks into…
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Can I find out what I don’t know I don’t know? Yes, with ‘discovery learning’
A philosophy of learning by discovering isn’t just something that’s all fun; there’s real merit in it, for hte purpose of findig out what you don’t know you don’t know. Why does this matter for self-design? Sometimes we hold ourselves back because of the lack of awareness of the range of possibility of who we…
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Art, Architecture and Design Zine
New conversations begin to co-make a special issue of our zine that will focus on art, design, and architecture. An international conversation starts in February. I’ve made a free ‘info’ space for guests in #phnompenh who are interested in meeting and talking about this topic over Telegram… https://t.me/+O2RwRwC4a_4zNzBl See you in the spaces!
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Wisdom: Is it correlated with age? Hmm.
Word to the wise.
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The thing about success is that it’s up to you to define it
Choices.
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S P A C E | On the meaning of growth
Self-reflection prompts, anyone?
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Life satisfaction 1-minute quiz
Something that I found over a year ago and re-read today, something that seems fascinatingly simple and maybe even a little bit jarring in how easy it is to assess this massive question is, a life satisfaction one-minute quiz. It’s below. Source: Kobau, R., Sniezek, J., Zack, M. M., Lucas, R. E., & Burns, A.…
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Protected: Growth Mindset | What it takes
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Curiosity | The 5 Dimensions of a very human trait, and how business can leverage it for greater efficacy
What even is ‘curiosity?’ How can we define it? I found an interesting article, in Harvard Business Review, on the ‘five dimensions’ of curiosity. It’s written by authors Todd B. Kashdan, David J. Disabato, Fallon R. Goodman, and Carl Naughton. They write: ‘Synthesizing [past] research, and in conjunction with our George Mason colleague Patrick McKnight,…
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Protected: Mirror | Goals, efficacy, and ‘failure to launch’ syndrome
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What team leaders can learn about collaboration from the jigsaw classroom method
How can people in teams better connect, engage, and collaborate? “The jigsaw classroom was first used in 1971 in Austin, Texas,” says psychologist and University of California in Santa Cruz Professor Elliot Aronson. He is the author of Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine. Here’s why DK got curious about him, and the jigsaw method. As…
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Identity | A 1-question litmus test for self-awareness
Meeting new people all the time because you know that networking is important for finding new people whom you might click with is this activity I used to be into, but, since the time of the pandemic days, I have neatly cast to the side. Largely. One day, however, I did gather myself to inquire…
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Protected: Desk | ‘Ready to grow’
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Mirror | How reflective practice helps you prioritize, re-evaluate goals
‘Experience alone does not necessarily lead to learning; deliberate reflection on experience is essential:’ Wikipedia ‘Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not… seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the…
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Protected: Mirror | The part that makes it all suddenly easier
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Protected: ‘Bây giờ ở đó, bây giờ ở đây’
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Protected: Mirror | ‘Work or family?’
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Protected: Circumstances
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