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Agency starts with what scientists call interoception, our awareness of our subtle sensory , body-based feelings: the greater that awareness, the greater our potential to control our lives.
This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am…
Wisdom is practiced when people come together to form what Parker Palmer called a 'community of truth.
The book highlights the importance of self-regulation in early childhood education, suggesting that skills such as impulse control, emotional management, and task focus are more crucial for long-term success than traditional academic achievements. Programs like Tools of the Mind focus on these skills, which researchers believe lead to more positive outcomes. 'Tools of the Mind believe that these skills, which they group together under the rubric self-regulation, will do more to lead to positive outcomes for their students.' Such skills prepare children to manage themselves better, paving the way for future success.
Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models perform too poorly to be useful.
I never supposes. De Lord is my shepherd, and I knows I shall not want.
Frame your requests using calibrated, open-ended questions to give the other party a sense of autonomy while subtly guiding the conversation towards your desired outcome.
If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed?
Many cultures make use of memento mori to remind us of our mortality, the skeletons and dying flowers often represented in art or on display in the marketplace. They need memento vivi —or ways to remember they are going to live.
The Holy Spirit still teaches His people... but God can only reveal His will to a heart that is humble and tender and empty.
You increase leverage not by arguing facts but by surfacing and naming the other side’s emotions—especially their fears—so their threat response subsides and collaboration becomes possible.
The violence of internal feud crushed by authority reappears in authority itself, which falls into the hands of men who, like the rest, are frequently or always ready to sacrifice the public welfare to their personal interest.
Avoid warrants, as they complicate the whole thing.
Follow up, or fail: In such a fast-paced, digital world, it's incomprehensible that only a small percentage of us decide to follow up once we've met someone new. When you meet someone with whom you want to establish a relationship, take the extra little step to ensure you won't be lost in their mental attic.
Negotiation is about subtly shifting the other party's perspective to align with yours. Emotional anchors and non-monetary terms can be crucial in this process. For instance, anchoring a salary negotiation with the idea of 'fairness' can influence expectations. 'It's not enough to show the other party that you can and will deliver their thing or service; go first and bend their reality.'
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ—in that order.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.
Great players lead by example —by their work ethic, their sacrifices, and how they conduct themselves on a daily basis. They inspire greatness in those around them.
Certain films, because of surprising box office success or memorable content, become permanent monuments on the cultural landscape. Titanic, like Star Wars, Easy Rider, Close Encounters, and Independence Day, has become such a monument.
