At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying: Not every artwork was a total masterpiece. She asks us to consider the role of the almost-failure, the near win, in our own lives. In our pursuit of success and mastery, is it actually our near wins that push us forward?
Embrace the Near Win
What do Veterans need to know about Mesothelioma?
What do Veterans need to know about Mesothelioma?
Mesothelioma is misdiagnosed frequently because it's a rare disease, and the symptoms are mistaken for more common illnesses. I'm pleased to share this resource on behalf of the kind folks at Mesothelioma.net so that people suffering from Mesothelioma and their families can better understand this terrible affliction.
They're also focusing on helping educate veterans
about mesothelioma since asbestos was once widely used in the military. Read more:
Veterans and Mesothelioma: http://mesothelioma.net/mesothelioma-and-veterans/
What is autism spectrum disorder? – definition, symptoms & cures
What is autism spectrum disorder? – definition, symptoms & cures
Are you worrying about whether your child has autism spectrum disorders? Are you finding and collecting all information of ASD (autism spectrum disorders)? So what is autism spectrum disorder? – is this a question that you are finding the answer for it? If your answer is “Yes”, you should read this report from the site VKool.com that will help you identify if your child or someone you know has autism spectrum disorder.
Read more at: http://vkool.com/autism-spectrum-disorder/
Read more at: http://vkool.com/autism-spectrum-disorder/
Dating and Relationship Resources
Above is one hundred different google plus pages on dating and relationships. Check out their google plus page for their website -- lots of great dating and relationship advice and resources!
From Head to Heart
Shooting down and finding faults in other's ideas and dreams is easy. You've probably been trained to do it since you were born.
Try exercising a new muscle--support, uplift and ask how you can be a part of making their ideas reality.
For me this has been an extremely difficult habit to break -- I've been born with the gift of analysis. Since I was young, people around me have encouraged and rewarded me for my analytic nature. It helped me to become an engineer.
I spent decades striving to be right, to prove my point, to win the argument. It became so ingrained in me that I even to this day I sometimes cannot separate myself from it. My language, how I view the world, my judgments, all of it is framed through analysis, winning, proving and justifying.
Is it any wonder? What methods are used to assess students in school? What is prized at work? Who are our heroes in popular fiction?
We have all been equipped with so many tools. From my own experience I suppose that the least used tool for many of us is our heart.
Our heart would have us feel love, support and compassion. Our heart wants us to follow our intuitions, live with passion, be open and vulnerable.
If you are anything like me, you probably haven't really used your heart most of your life.
One way to exercise it is to make a different choice with respect to other's ideas and dreams -- just get on board with them no matter what. Be like a kid in a sandbox -- help build that cool town... Or create that grass and mud soup.
Who cares what "people" think-- just play with your friend and see what you can create together.
(image from http://www.happyfromwithin.com/blog/head-to-heart-connection)
Try exercising a new muscle--support, uplift and ask how you can be a part of making their ideas reality.
For me this has been an extremely difficult habit to break -- I've been born with the gift of analysis. Since I was young, people around me have encouraged and rewarded me for my analytic nature. It helped me to become an engineer.
I spent decades striving to be right, to prove my point, to win the argument. It became so ingrained in me that I even to this day I sometimes cannot separate myself from it. My language, how I view the world, my judgments, all of it is framed through analysis, winning, proving and justifying.
Is it any wonder? What methods are used to assess students in school? What is prized at work? Who are our heroes in popular fiction?
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
We have all been equipped with so many tools. From my own experience I suppose that the least used tool for many of us is our heart.
Our heart would have us feel love, support and compassion. Our heart wants us to follow our intuitions, live with passion, be open and vulnerable.
If you are anything like me, you probably haven't really used your heart most of your life.
One way to exercise it is to make a different choice with respect to other's ideas and dreams -- just get on board with them no matter what. Be like a kid in a sandbox -- help build that cool town... Or create that grass and mud soup.
Who cares what "people" think-- just play with your friend and see what you can create together.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
(image from http://www.happyfromwithin.com/blog/head-to-heart-connection)
Practice
It seems insane to expect someone to perform perfectly the first time. So why do we expect ourselves to get life right -- isn't it our first time?
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