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  • By Sonja Blignaut

    • Think about organizations more like a flow state than a machine
    • “It is hard to survive in a jungle when you were trained in a zoo.”
    • Complexity is “to include”; or is a verb
    • Our brains are designed to minimize energy use; new things inherently take more energy to start
    • Rewilding and untaming
    • “Make a path by walking”
    • Complexity is reconnecting things
    • Think about things more into verbs
    • The wind does not blow, the blowing makes the wind
    • “How do we team together”
    • “Ways finding” because there is more than one way
    • “Organization is an emergent property of change”
    • The jungle is not chaos, it is different order

  • Alain de Botton on Emotional Education

    • Emotions are not intuitive
    • There is something wrong with everyone, it is what binds us
    • Religion used to console us about our misery
    • With the decline of religion, we thought culture could replace it, but it has not
    • We want emotional rewards associated with materials, not the materials themselves
    • Meritocracy believes people on top deserve to be on the top and people on the bottom deserve to be on the bottom
      • (Conversely, you are where you deserve to be)
    • Ancient societies used to believe the “divine” had a strong effect on success or failure
      • “They are unfortunate” literally “They are not touched by the goddess Fortune”
      • “Loser” denotes someone who is failing in a race
    • Failure and vulnerability are the only way to make friends
      • We know ourselves from the inside but others only from the outside
    • Leaning into the weirdness brings relief
    • Having a divine interloper brings relief
    • A problem on devices is that we do not have enough time with our own thoughts
    • Childhood sets our pattern for the rest of our lives… until we defuse it
    • We all start as a True Self but build (by choice or force) a False Self on top
    • Often, a mental breakdown is because the True Self is breaking through
    • Transference is moving historical behavior into the present context
    • The most “adult” people are the ones who have reconciled their childhoods
    • Romanticism has corrupted our ideas about relationships
      • There are no soul mates
      • Disagreements are normal
      • Instincts (our feelings) tells us we are in love
      • Humans replaced Angels
      • (Romantics tended to die young… which helped them hold their paradigm)
      • Sex is the same as love
      • We should be loving who someone can become, not who they are
      • Mind reading is short-lived
    • We are not “falling in love” so much as “refinding love”
      • The problem is, we are basing “love” on what we grew up with
      • We avoid people who are too healthy for us because we associate love with suffering
    • We are often too selfless because we do not know how to not be
      • Ask yourself: “If I dared to be more selfish I would…”
    • Parents needs to be “good enough”
      • The role of parents is to let kids down in a structured way
    • “The best cure for love is knowledge”
    • Forgiveness comes naturally after peace is achieved

  • Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

    In his lively presentation, Achor describes an with the way we measure success in the workplace: the goal is always moving. Once you achieve a goal, business leaders make the next goal more difficult. Our brains are wired to seek out goals and this perpetually posting success literally stresses the brain. Achor suggests this is, at least in part, why work is considered stressful for so many people, especially later in their careers. As a counter, Achor suggests doing the following things on a daily basis:

    • Write down three things you are grateful for
    • Journal a positive experience
    • Exercise
    • Meditate
    • Perform a random act of kindness

    The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor

  • Simon Sinek: What game theory teaches us about war

    Contrasting infinite and finite goals, Sinek explains how can make decisions that are both consistent across time and understandable to our friends and allies.

    What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek

  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last

    Sinek delves into the biology of leadership explaining much of the context behind what makes a good leader good. There is a surprising amount of biochemistry behind how leaders make their followers feel.

    Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last