Buckminster Fuller: The Fuller World - Design Scientist (Episode 1) - YouTube
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
QUOTES
"The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile
the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
Jack London
American Author
"Dream as if you'll live forever...
live as if you'll die today."
James Dean
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
How Emotional Equations Can Change Your Life - Forbes
How Emotional Equations Can Change Your Life - Forbes:
ENTREPRENEURS
How Emotional Equations Can Change Your Life
Subscribe to my updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel.
I recently spoke to Chip Conley, who has spoken at the prestigious TED Conference, is the author of Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, and is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. Joie de Vivre Hospitality grew into America’s second largest boutique hotel company. He speaks around the world on how to find meaning at the intersection of business and psychology. In this interview, Chip talks about what emotional equations are, why they are important and how they can change your life for the better.
What are emotional equations and what inspired you to write this book?
I was CEO of the company I founded, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (the country’s 2nd largest boutique hotelier), for nearly 24 years. During the last decade, we went through two once-in-a-lifetime downturns. During the dot-com bust ten years ago, I felt like a gladiator and our team did a phenomenal job tripling in size during a difficult time. But, during this Great Recession, I felt more like a prisoner and I could see that my depressed state was having its impact on my team and even the company culture.
I believe all leaders are CEO’s, Chief Emotions Officers, as leaders are the emotional thermostats for the groups they lead. When my emotional thermostat was low, I was reading Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, and I turned that into an equation so that I could use it as a mantra: Despair = Suffering – Meaning. Ultimately, I shared this equation with my top 80 leaders in the company and we started teaching equations on Anxiety, Disappointment, Happiness, and Authenticity in our corporate university. I was inspired to write the book since so few of us have ever been taught about the mystery of our emotions and how to make sense of them.
What can math teach us about controlling our emotions?
This decade feels like a milder, but still painful, version of the 1930s. What’s interesting about the Depression is that people looked for internal logic as a means to remedy their external chaos. The 30s brought us Norman Vincent Peale, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich), Viktor Frankl, the Serenity Prayer – all dedicated to providing some level of internal logic during a time when the world felt dangerous and difficult. Emotional Equations are perfectly suited for this era (they’re even short enough to be textable and tweetable) as they help people to understand the ingredients or emotional building blocks that create our feelings. The more we are conscious about what creates Regret or Envy, the more we can influence those ingredients and have some emotional mastery in our lives.
Which equation helped you out the most when you were suffering?
That Despair = Suffering – Meaning equation saved my life (I write about this in the book). Think of Suffering as the constant and Meaning as the variable in this equation. Suffering is ever present (it’s the first Noble Truth of Buddhism), especially in a harsh recession, but Meaning is what you make of it. When I was having a particular difficult day, I would need to ask myself, “What’s the learning or lesson in this?” Or, better yet, what kind of emotional muscles am I training in this emotional boot camp I’m living through?
There’s a famous study of young women who grew up during the Depression. They compared these women later in life – who’d lost their husbands – with other women and they found that these women whose formative years had been the Depression were better able to handle the resiliency, independence, and courage necessary to become a widow. So, whether it’s compassion, humility, persistence, or curiosity – there’s some positive emotional power that may come out of this difficult time that can serve you for a lifetime.
How can emotional equations make people more successful in the workplace?
The truth is that most of us are very reactive with our emotions, but we aren’t always conscious of that. Yet, what we’re unconscious of often holds power over us. Daniel Goleman taught us 16 years ago that the most successful leaders have strong emotional intelligence and the foundation component of EQ is self-awareness. Emotional Equations helps people to understand their emotional patterns and reactivity such that they can exhibit more healthy and productive emotions in their work.
How do we know when we can’t use an equation to make a change in our lives?
These equations are meant to help people respond, not react to life, which can be helpful in the context of business when we want to use logic and reason in considering something. But, for some things in life – like the joy of seeing your baby born or falling in love – reacting is the most natural way to allow your emotions to gush just like they should. For me, I call this being emotionally fluent.
It’s nice to be emotionally intelligent, but it’s valuable to be emotionally fluent. In other words, you may go to Paris and know this history of the French language and all its dialects, but if you aren’t fluent in actually speaking the language that knowledge isn’t serving you in a practical way. Emotional Equations provide practical benefit, but my suggestion is that people don’t labor too much over the logic of the equations.
Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a full-service personal branding agency. Dan is the author of Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future, the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, and publisher ofPersonal Branding Magazine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2012/01/12/how-emotional-equations-can-change-your-life/2/
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ENTREPRENEURS
How Emotional Equations Can Change Your Life
Subscribe to my updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel.
I recently spoke to Chip Conley, who has spoken at the prestigious TED Conference, is the author of Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, and is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. Joie de Vivre Hospitality grew into America’s second largest boutique hotel company. He speaks around the world on how to find meaning at the intersection of business and psychology. In this interview, Chip talks about what emotional equations are, why they are important and how they can change your life for the better.
What are emotional equations and what inspired you to write this book?
I was CEO of the company I founded, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (the country’s 2nd largest boutique hotelier), for nearly 24 years. During the last decade, we went through two once-in-a-lifetime downturns. During the dot-com bust ten years ago, I felt like a gladiator and our team did a phenomenal job tripling in size during a difficult time. But, during this Great Recession, I felt more like a prisoner and I could see that my depressed state was having its impact on my team and even the company culture.
I believe all leaders are CEO’s, Chief Emotions Officers, as leaders are the emotional thermostats for the groups they lead. When my emotional thermostat was low, I was reading Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, and I turned that into an equation so that I could use it as a mantra: Despair = Suffering – Meaning. Ultimately, I shared this equation with my top 80 leaders in the company and we started teaching equations on Anxiety, Disappointment, Happiness, and Authenticity in our corporate university. I was inspired to write the book since so few of us have ever been taught about the mystery of our emotions and how to make sense of them.
What can math teach us about controlling our emotions?
This decade feels like a milder, but still painful, version of the 1930s. What’s interesting about the Depression is that people looked for internal logic as a means to remedy their external chaos. The 30s brought us Norman Vincent Peale, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich), Viktor Frankl, the Serenity Prayer – all dedicated to providing some level of internal logic during a time when the world felt dangerous and difficult. Emotional Equations are perfectly suited for this era (they’re even short enough to be textable and tweetable) as they help people to understand the ingredients or emotional building blocks that create our feelings. The more we are conscious about what creates Regret or Envy, the more we can influence those ingredients and have some emotional mastery in our lives.
Which equation helped you out the most when you were suffering?
That Despair = Suffering – Meaning equation saved my life (I write about this in the book). Think of Suffering as the constant and Meaning as the variable in this equation. Suffering is ever present (it’s the first Noble Truth of Buddhism), especially in a harsh recession, but Meaning is what you make of it. When I was having a particular difficult day, I would need to ask myself, “What’s the learning or lesson in this?” Or, better yet, what kind of emotional muscles am I training in this emotional boot camp I’m living through?
There’s a famous study of young women who grew up during the Depression. They compared these women later in life – who’d lost their husbands – with other women and they found that these women whose formative years had been the Depression were better able to handle the resiliency, independence, and courage necessary to become a widow. So, whether it’s compassion, humility, persistence, or curiosity – there’s some positive emotional power that may come out of this difficult time that can serve you for a lifetime.
How can emotional equations make people more successful in the workplace?
The truth is that most of us are very reactive with our emotions, but we aren’t always conscious of that. Yet, what we’re unconscious of often holds power over us. Daniel Goleman taught us 16 years ago that the most successful leaders have strong emotional intelligence and the foundation component of EQ is self-awareness. Emotional Equations helps people to understand their emotional patterns and reactivity such that they can exhibit more healthy and productive emotions in their work.
How do we know when we can’t use an equation to make a change in our lives?
These equations are meant to help people respond, not react to life, which can be helpful in the context of business when we want to use logic and reason in considering something. But, for some things in life – like the joy of seeing your baby born or falling in love – reacting is the most natural way to allow your emotions to gush just like they should. For me, I call this being emotionally fluent.
It’s nice to be emotionally intelligent, but it’s valuable to be emotionally fluent. In other words, you may go to Paris and know this history of the French language and all its dialects, but if you aren’t fluent in actually speaking the language that knowledge isn’t serving you in a practical way. Emotional Equations provide practical benefit, but my suggestion is that people don’t labor too much over the logic of the equations.
Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a full-service personal branding agency. Dan is the author of Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future, the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, and publisher ofPersonal Branding Magazine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2012/01/12/how-emotional-equations-can-change-your-life/2/
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Now is the Time
Be Present In Your Life.
SANSKRIT PROVERB
Look at this day, for it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power.
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today, well lived, makes every day a dream, a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day
SANSKRIT PROVERB
Look at this day, for it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power.
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today, well lived, makes every day a dream, a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day
Monday, October 31, 2011
Beatles - Nowhere Man
Lyrics:
He's a real nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, just listen,
You don't know what you're missin',
All the world's at your command.
(lead guitar)
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don't worry,
Take your time, don't hurry,
Leave it all 'till somebody else
lends you a hand.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen,
you don't know what your missin'
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command
He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Prohibition
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
- Terence McKenna
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded"
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded"
-Abraham Lincoln
Present! - Huston Smith on Death and the Near Death Experience - YouTube
Present! - Huston Smith on Death and the Near Death Experience - YouTube: ""
ded by KMVT on Feb 12, 2010
Mel Van Dusen interviews scholar of religion, Huston Smith, about death and the near death experience.
Paper Money
Poverty, Human Rights, protecting the Environment and working toward Sustainability are Mankind's greatest challenges in the 21st Century.
"Paper money has had the effect in your state [Rhode Island] that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
George Washington 1787.
Monday, August 15, 2011
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma2/becono1.html
Buddhist Perspective on Right Livelihood contained in larger essay:
Buddhist Economics
A Middle Way for the Market Place
...Ven. P. A. Payutto, 1994
Right Livelihood is one factor on the Noble Eightfold Path. It is not determined by the amount of material wealth it produces, but rather by the well-being it generates. Many livelihoods which produce a surplus of wealth simply cater to desires rather than providing for any true need.
For the individual, the objective of livelihood is to acquire the four necessities or requisites of human existence: food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. Again, the acquisition of these four requisites, be it in sufficient amount or in surplus, is not the ultimate objective. The four requisites are merely a foundation upon which efforts to realize higher objectives can be based.
Some people are content with few possessions and need only a minimum to devote their energies to mental and spiritual development. Others cannot live happily on such a small amount; they are more dependent on material goods. As long as their livelihood does not exploit others, however, Buddhism does not condemn their wealth. Moreover, people who are charitably inclined can use their wealth in ways that are beneficial for society as a whole.
In opposition to contemporary urban values, Buddhism does not measure a person's or nation's worth by material wealth. Nor does it go to the opposite extreme, as do Marxist thinkers, and condemn the accumulation of wealth as an evil in and of itself. Instead, Buddhism judges the ethical value of wealth by the ways in which it is obtained, and the uses to which it is put.
For the individual, the objective of livelihood is to acquire the four necessities or requisites of human existence: food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. Again, the acquisition of these four requisites, be it in sufficient amount or in surplus, is not the ultimate objective. The four requisites are merely a foundation upon which efforts to realize higher objectives can be based.
Some people are content with few possessions and need only a minimum to devote their energies to mental and spiritual development. Others cannot live happily on such a small amount; they are more dependent on material goods. As long as their livelihood does not exploit others, however, Buddhism does not condemn their wealth. Moreover, people who are charitably inclined can use their wealth in ways that are beneficial for society as a whole.
In opposition to contemporary urban values, Buddhism does not measure a person's or nation's worth by material wealth. Nor does it go to the opposite extreme, as do Marxist thinkers, and condemn the accumulation of wealth as an evil in and of itself. Instead, Buddhism judges the ethical value of wealth by the ways in which it is obtained, and the uses to which it is put.
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