No one will ever know what you know, in the way that you know it, as passionately as you know it, and care about it as much as you do. So, that solution that you “know” will “work” for the office conflict that’s been going on for years? The reason Read more…
On President’s Day, it’s useful to remember that meaning and mattering matter more now than ever before. This is reflected in the shift from important impersonal interactions at scale to important personal interactions between individuals. Meaning has always come from relationships and the community and family has always been the Read more…
Storytelling, when a name is put to it, is the act of getting across to other people who we are, why we matter, what our thoughts and feelings are and what we value. This process happens from the time that we begin to learn to talk (and sometimes before) and Read more…
Our heads are the most dangerous place to be in conflict. We tell ourselves a story about the nature of the conflict, who’s at fault (and who isn’t) and what the solution should be (preferably one that benefits us and makes the other person the enemy). We then plunge forward, Read more…
We give language to our thoughts. We speak into existence what we believe and—being narrative animals—we weave stories together and create myths for ourselves based on the conscious language of our thoughts. We look for assurances that our stories are the “right” ones because, to hear something different—or to experience Read more…
As they fade into the rearview mirror of memory, events of the past tend to be mythologized, canonized or misremembered entirely. On a global scale, the one class of people who used to rely on this fact of human memory—politicians—are finding it difficult to deal with the current state of Read more…