If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
We're talking success/achievement this week at #FridayTalk. Friday at 4P EST/1P PST.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou
We're talking courage at today's #FridayTalk. Hope to see you there!
This just smacks of #FridayTalk goodness. :)
Happy Monday, everybody!
What stands in the way of you being fully present in any given moment?
...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The problem with profile-based networks is they're always trying to make you be one person.
Michael Heyward, co-founder and CEO of Whisper, as quoted at All Things D http://sbne.ws/r/e1Ae
Interesting quote in light of our conversation on authenticity and personal branding last week.
This week we're talking misatkes.
Yesterday's #FridayTalk focused on the theme of authenticity. We were expecting a good discussion, but the #FridayTalk crowd never ceases to amaze and inspire us with their insights no matter what the topic of conversation is. Here are just a few highlights from yesterday.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
C.G. Jung
Zefrank on being yourself: "Even though there is a thing called fitting in, that it's something that you can learn and practice, those pages or so thin compared to who you are, that the way to become natural like I wanted to be so badly, is by forgetting what you're trying to be to other people. And if there is a handbook, you probably get to write it yourself."
"To thine own self be true." Easier said than done, right? We're talking authenticity this Friday @ 4P EST/1P PST! #FridayTalk
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco
Get excited, you guys! The floodgates of #FridayTalk inspiration are opening soon.
On that #FridayTalk: Flow (And an Important Note - Please Read!)
Q. What is flow?
Q. Why is flow important?
Q. How do you find/experience flow?
Q. In what activities/environments do you experience flow the most? What is it about these activities?
Q. What are the benefits of flow for yourself? Others?
Q. What is the relationship between flow and performance? Flow and connectedness?
Q. Do you experience flow in your work? If not, how can you bridge the gap?
Important Note:
We feel humbled by and amazed at the community that has developed since January when #FridayTalk first popped up - out of thin air! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this with us.
If you've been with us, you know that #FridayTalk is about, well, flow. Let's take a short break to find ours and get back at it in August. Keep the hashtag going anytime you feel some #FridayTalk coming on, but let's pause and think about what we want #FridayTalk to be. It's ours to shape and we need you, the Talkers, to sustain it and keep it alive!
So talk to each other. Talk to us. As is always true, nothing is out of the realm of possibility. Dream to edges of your imagination.
And then let's start that talk back up Friday, August 2 -- unless someone wants to keep it going in the meantime. That would be awesome. Let us know.
Love you guys.
#FridayTalk is a Twitter Chat happening today, Friday June 14 at 1pm PST/ 4pm PST. See you in the stream!
Because of the transmission of identity from one generation to the next, most children share at least some traits with their parents. These are vertical identities. Attributes and values are passed down from parent to child across the generations not only through strands of DNA, but also through shared cultural norms. Ethnicity, for example, is a vertical identity. […] Often, however, someone has an inherent or acquired trait that is foreign to his or her parents and must therefore acquire identity from a peer group. This is a horizontal identity. … Being gay is a horizontal identity; most gay kids are born to straight parents, and while their sexuality is not determined by their peers, they learn gay identity by observing and participating in a subculture outside the family. Physical disability tends to be horizontal, as does genius. […] I had been startled to note my common ground with the Deaf, and now I was identifying with a dwarf; I wondered who else was out there waiting to join our gladsome throng. I thought that if gayness, an identity, could grow out of homosexuality, an illness, and Deafness, an identity, could grow out of deafness, an illness, and if dwarfism as an identity could emerge from an apparent disability, then there must be many other categories in this awkward interstitial territory. It was a radicalizing insight. Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.
Fantastic read: “Horizontal” vs. “vertical” identity and how love both changes us and makes us more ourselves (via explore-blog)
On that #FridayTalk: Community
Q. What is community?
Q. Why is community important?
Q. How is a community different from a network?
Q. How has social media changed the way we think about community?
Q. How is community changing business?
#FridayTalk is a Twitter Chat that happens every Friday at 1pm PST/ 4pm EST! Login into TweetChat.com and type in the hashtag #FridayTalk and join us! Bring your Q’s to add to the queue! C'mon community, let's do this! ;)
On that #FridayTalk: Introspection
Q. What is introspection? Let's define it together.
Q. Why is introspection important?
Q. How are you currently practicing introspection? Share helpful tips.
Q. How does introspection impact our relationships, both personal & professional?
Q. What does introspection teach us?
Q. What are the challenges to introspective thinking?
Q. What's the relationship between introspection & leadership?
#FridayTalk is a Twitter Chat that happens every Friday at 1pm PST/ 4pm EST! Login into TweetChat.com and type in the hashtag #FridayTalk and join us! Bring your Q’s to add to the queue! These questions are just fodder for more questions!
Happy Friday!
On that #FridayTalk: Giving
Q. What defines generosity? Q. What drives us to give? Q. How does giving relate to motivation? Q. Does giving make you more or less productive? Q. How can you balance generosity with creativity? Q. Can we get better at giving? How?
#FridayTalk is a Twitter Chat that happens every Friday at 1pm PST/4pm EST. Catch ya in the stream!