A theme in the book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, is weightlessness versus heaviness. The idea that there are things that anchor us and give
Category: transformation
The Stone Principle: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Don’t overthink it; which is better, to get what you want or to get what you need? It wasn’t the Rolling Stone’s song that inspired
The Straddle: Balancing the Extremes
If you say something to someone and they get it totally wrong, you start to question your communication skills. Could you have phrased it differently,
Hard, Challenging and Difficult: The False Equivalency Mental Block
What do you feel when you hear, “oh, it is really hard, that was so difficult, or that was a challenging period?” Just pause and
Uniformly Curious: Indicators of Transformation
In downtown Oakland, a block from the the police station, I saw 6 police, all smiles and laughs, perhaps on their way to lunch. I
The Metric System: Context, Dumb Questions and Recommendations
It was a dumb question and no one could answer. We, as a team, looked dumb because we couldn’t answer. It was akin to this;
Balancing on Unstable Surfaces 