My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

562 years ago, back in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born; the word “coffee” entered English in 1582 via Dutch koffie, borrowed from Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun ‘wine of the bean; and 1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island. So? Take the open mindedness of da Vinci, pour yourself a cup of coffee, imagine you are on Tahiti – and enjoy a relaxed reading!

The Antidote to Emptiness

We worship at the altar of “winners,” without recognizing that it sets up a zero-sum game in which the consequence must necessarily be a lot of “losers.” We undervalue qualities like humility, vulnerability, personal responsibility and compassion. The New York Times

Reflection is a two way street The famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The final mystery is oneself.”But how do you unravel the mystery that is you? Use these 5 questions to guide your journey.

Letting Go of Judging People And incidentally, you will be a lot happier in the process

Make Your Work More Meaningful Since you have the ability to determine how you think about and respond to the conditions you experience, you do have control over the meaning you derive from work. Harvard Business Review

A Personal Challenge, do you have the guts to be honest with yourself? As I’ve gotten older, I find I’m more patient with people when they have good intentions and less patient with people when they don’t. I think it comes from doing my best and accepting my own flaws, and then being able to accept others more easily because of that. What’s a long term change you’ve realized about yourself?