Category: Emotion

Memories & Fictions

Looking outwards at the sky – we essentially stare at things as they were in the past. Sun’s light takes almost 8.5 minutes to travel to Earth, so we see the Sun as it appeared 8.5 minutes ago. The nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away, so it appears to our eyes as it was 4.2 years ago. The nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away and looks the way it did when our hominid ancestors walked the planet. Something similar happens when we look inwards.  We remember things not as they were but as we want

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Speed Matters

Speed Matters A car driving beyond a threshold can harm the people in the car, and a few on the road. A startup is moving towards a destination, like a car. Runners train at speed, like a car. Thought moves at speed, like a car. Speed matters for the ambulance and the fire engine. Better to be aware when we need speed and when we need ‘slow.’ https://dash.coach

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How Vulnerable Are We?

If I met you for the first time and asked you to introduce yourself to me, what would you say? CEO at XYZ, Entrepreneur, Musician, Makeup Artist, Teacher, Priest, Mother, Adventurer… What you are referring to is your dominant identity, and also your dominant vulnerability. Because we hang our coat of self-worth and confidence on our top one or two dominant identities, if anything were to happen to those identities (lost job, the son left home, music gig didn’t go well…), we will stumble. We are as strong or as weak as our dominant identity. It helps to –  1/

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