Lars points to a very funny piece about the Open Space session i hosted in april for Collaboraid.
I had no idea that I do “power hand gestures”, but I kinda like the sound of it.
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Happiness for free agents
The newly started network for free agents have asked me to speak at their first seminar on september 4th. I’ll be talking about happiness at work, and how free agents can get it.
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Money makes life easier in all the obvious ways. There’s definitely some things in it. But it does not bring you happiness, in no way shape or form. It can hurt people too. You know, if you don’t have a clear idea of who you are and what you are, and why you’re here. So money can be deadly. It can divide people. And it can make people very greedy. It can have many different effects on people. You can have money and just be really thankful, and do positive things. Or you can have money and waste it all, and die of an overdose. You know, because you don’t know who you are.
– Jennifer Aniston
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Word to the mother
When I was in Slovenia for the art of hosting seminar, Tim performed one day, rapping his way through this piece called Word to the mother. I like it!
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Breaking barriers
I have spent this weekend breaking barriers at the DSN course held by the art of living. The DSN course is for people who want to create a better society. These people need to be able to rise above their own limitations, and to willingly go into situations that are unknown, uncertain, frustrating or scary.
And after three days of non-stop activity (every day the course lasted from 6 in the morning til 11 at night) I can safely say that my comfort zone has been expanded vastly. My biggest realization at the course was, that for me the fear is not in the doing – it’s in the hesitation. As long as I’m procrastinating, wondering “Should I do it? Will it work?” I’m afraid. As soon as I start actually doing it (whatever “it” is), the fear is gone. I’m already applying this in my daily work, and this makes some things easier.
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YES: I’m in Fast Company
I was visiting my new friend Nicolai when I glanced through his July issue of Fast Company, and whaddayaknow: I’m in it! Fast Company is an extremely cool magazine. Okay, they’ve been marked by the dismal economic trends too, and their cool factor is slipping slightly, but they’re still light years in front of any other business magazine I know.
And I’m in the july issue! Well… it’s only a letter to the magazine, but still. I wrote a comment to an article that says that we need to reconstruct business to be less vulnerable to terrorist attacks. I argue, that it’s probably better to meet your enemies with understanding and empathy than with duct tape. So now that I’ve been in the mag, I have to choose a new ambition… hmmm… Oh yeah: To get on the cover of Fast Company.
And in a totally unrelated but equally ego-flattering development, I’m now a top1000 reviewer at Amazon; I’m actually number 599, set to break into the top500 soon. Check out some of my reviews here, here and here. You know Amazon have a good thing going, when this actually means something to me. Now: Are they very clever, or am I just a pushover?
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Book review: Crossings
This book by Richard A. Heckler, subtitled “A New Psychology of the Unexpected”, is about change in a big way. It’s about those events that have the powert to totally transform your life. The events can be big or small, trivial or life-threatening, mystical or practical, but they fundamentally alter the people to whom they happen.
The strongest feature of the book is quite simply actual stories of this happening. Told partially in the words of the people involved and partially by the author, these stories are downright gripping. From Karl, a former drug dealer turned minister, to Rebecca who discovers her strengths and leadership abilities on board a small boat close to sinking in a ferocious storm.
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How to make your own luck
Fast Company have an article on how to court lady luck. And interestingly, the article claims that the key is openness, and that lucky people are simply open to the fortunate events that occur around all of us.
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What’s your world view
Everybody has a world view. It’s the glasses through which you look at the world. Your world view will help you see some things clearly, but may also distort other things. One thing that is important though, is to know the assumptions inherent in your world view. When you think what you think, what assumptions is this based on?
I do not claim to have the Answers (notice the capital A), but here’s some of the questions. These questions are totally basic, and can be found at the foundation of most world views. Most of these questions can probably not be answered conclusively, but which ever answer you choose to believe, will hold some implications for your world view.
Obviously I did not come up with these questions. Many of them have been hotly debated for thousands of years; this is just a list of the ones I could think of. Let me know what you think, did I leave some questions out, and where do you stand on the answers?
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