AHHHHH. Happy Friday!
A pop up Friday Thoughts to share some inspiration as we enter the weekend. Friday Thoughts aims to:
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AMPLIFY: Take aways from posts and podcasts… what inspires?
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BUILD connections: Tools, resources and community…what can you use?
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CONNECT: People, places, ideas…what resonates?
AMPLIFY
A post by of —her artist manifesto – so resonated. And Spring is close (next week!), and I believe in the concept of the Fresh Start Effect. So while this was a message for the start of the year, the start of Spring is a great time for a manifesto.
For more inspiration, check it out. And for even more fuel, check out her art.
Would love for you to share your manifesto! A little bit of guidance from a previous post here. 👇
Has anyone created a manifesto? Or are they interested in doing so?
BUILD
I am a little obsessed with learning though conversations, turning on skills to actively listen, drawing inspiration from our partners at Cortico. Their mission is to enhance the capacity for human listening and connection with opposing voices through AI. It sounds simple, but we tend to avoid disagreement, controversy and hard to talk about things.
Author and bridge builder Monica Guzman has said,
“Whoever is underrepresented in our lives will be overrepresented in our imaginations….That’s the challenge of this polarized world, but there is a way we can meet it.“
What if, rather than running from controversy, we find ways to pause, to listen across silos and settings, and get into life’s hard questions?
Two podcast resources I’ve loved listening to (and relistening to) on the topic:
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Next Big Idea Club with Anna Sales. Anna Sale hosts her own podcast “Death, Sex & Money,” and wrote the book “Go There: The Art of Talking about Hard Things” I love the examples in this podcast, and the reminder that we need to face hard topics head on.
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Choose to be Curious with Monica Guzman, a bridge builder, curiosity inspirer and author of “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times,” Monica always gives me a jolt. One of her gems:“Understanding the people who confound us is always, always worth it.”
CONNECT
The book How to Know a Person: Art of Seeing People Deeply by David Brooks draws from across fields and individuals, representing ideas from psychology, neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education.
Favorite excerpt:
I’ve noticed along the way that some people are much better at seeing people than others are. In any collection of humans, there are diminishers and there are illuminators. ….Illuminators have a persistent curiosity about other people. They have been trained or have trained themselves in the craft of understanding others. David Brooks
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Dr. Jane R. Shore
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