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Work and Meaning I am impressed by how having meaningful work contributes to our sense of joy and our ability to cope with difficulties. I have seen this even with people who are very depressed or have other major ‘mental health’ problems. Why would this be? I think it shows us how important meaning [...]
I would like to introduce you to Ian Peatey. He writes his blog about one of the most hopeful, and I think one of the more important, movements on our little planet – Nonviolent Communication. I will let him fill you in on the details in this post. He tells the story through his own [...]
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One of the evils of traditional schooling is that it teaches us that there is usually one right answer – not just in maths and science but even in history. In Modern History in high school we were given a convenient check list of the causes of World War One! And the assumption is that [...]
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A little while ago I wrote a post titled “Authenticity Blah Blah Blah”. In it I said that I wasn’t feeling blah about authenticity but wouldn’t be surprised if others were. What Bloggers Do Us bloggers are a pretty engaged bunch. We tend to follow other blogs and engage with the bloggers who produce [...]
We interrupt this series on the basics of self development for an ill-tempered rant. I am sick and tired of people who claim they are putting psychotherapy on a scientific footing. The worst offenders are the spruikers for Happiness Psychology. The neuroscientists are also pretty bad. 1.There is a bias against the findings of [...]
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You can read part one of this interview here. In this part of the interview Tony and I talk about: The balance between business life and personal life, Having an online persona, Being embarrassed about our early efforts at blogging, What the place of goals is in living, and, The importance (or not) of money. [...]
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The 1960’s Agenda Once upon a time there were the 1960’s. As I was born in 1959 I wasn’t part of the ‘revolution’ that was allegedly occurring. Instead I was a suburban Evangelical Christian. By the time I arrived at uni in the late 70’s most of the excitement was over (conscription had been done [...]
This post, due to hassles getting it transcribed, has been a long time coming. Apologies for the delay. In this first part Tony and I talk about living authentically and how this affects his approach to business. This includes: our image of sales people, our self image, listening, about mixing self-development and business on one [...]
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If you loved your children you would have no war. – Krishnamurti We don’t claim to hate children. We claim to love and want to protect them. But. Love is a verb too. People who beat their wives claim to love them, and we have no trouble confronting this contradiction. What do we claim to [...]
Today is blog action day. Once a year bloggers around the world write about one topic of social concern. This year it is water. This is a difficult issue to do anything meaningful about as an individual (it involves large utilities for those of us in the West). The best resource I know for water [...]
