What color is a mirror?
I don’t know if this will sound deep or what, but this question hit me the other day and I found it making me think enough about perception to share it here. Perception being one of the main components of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Nature
Nature versus Corporate (slideshow)
Here are the same pictures as from the previous post in a slide show, randomly ordered. Funny, I was thinking about the questions I asked. They feel like leading questions, but reading them, they seem open-ended. I guess you can … Continue reading
Nature versus Corporate
My post on Variety, choice, the manufactured illusion of it, and creating more yourself prompted more people emailing me about the images than most others. The way all the corporate stuff trying to catch your eye glosses over. I decided … Continue reading
Thoughts on mourning
News from home comes slowly and filtered here in China. I know only the basic facts about the shooting in Connecticut. I saw Obama’s first speech on it, but little more. I don’t know much of what happened or how … Continue reading
A poem: In the sea of Iwami by Kakinomoto Hitomaro
I recently came across a poem I remember reading in college and liking enough to copy into my computer. I’ve tried to find a way to connect it to this page’s usual themes of leadership and personal development. I can’t, … Continue reading
One of the most insidious barriers to getting hard things done, part 5: examples
As a final note on empathy gaps, I wanted to note a few examples of empathy gaps — using them, observing them in others, and observing them in yourself. Researchers normally present empathy gaps as problems. I like to think … Continue reading
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One of the most insidious barriers to getting hard things done, part 4: overcoming them
Now we are familiar with empathy gaps — that when you feel one emotion you generally can’t conceive of your motivations when feeling a different emotion. We get how insidious they can be in keeping us from improving our lives. … Continue reading
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One of the most insidious barriers to getting hard things done, part 3: why empathy gaps make sense
As usual, understanding ourselves better helps us overcome the problems of empathy gaps — that when you feel one emotion you generally can’t conceive of your motivations when feeling a different emotion. Yet as they fundamentally concern being unable to … Continue reading
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One of the most insidious barriers to getting hard things done, part 2: research and experiments
Yesterday I talked about the effect that when you feel one emotion you generally can’t conceive of your motivations when feeling a different emotion, nor do you realize you can’t, also known as empathy gaps. Today let’s look at some … Continue reading
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Responsibility and consuming resources
I remember as a kid in the 70s being taught a policy to turn off lights when I was the last to leave a room. People put stickers on light switches with that message. I don’t see that message that … Continue reading
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