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Tag Archives: Personal development
Learning from what is not
The very last post on the Year of Nothing series, or the yearlong process during which I became a Taoist without noticing. Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Contentment, Giving, Humility, Luck, Meaning, Meditation, Nothing, Patience, Personal development, Synchronicity, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Wayne Dyer, wu-wei
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Amy Tan on creativity
Novelist Amy Tan’s insights on creativity are perhaps very much applicable beyond artistic work. My Year of Nothing allowed me to open up to a worldview similar to hers in many ways. Continue reading
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How to become less judgmental in 5 minutes or less (The Year of Nothing, Part 3)
During this Year of Nothing I became more aware of my mind’s natural tendency towards judgmentalism. And I learned a 5-minute exercise to counter that tendency. Continue reading
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Tagged Jonathan Haidt, Judgmentalism, Meditation, Nothing, Personal development
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The Year of Nothing, Part 2
This Year of Nothing allowed me to develop a razor-sharp sense of what I want to do next and what I want to be. Never before have I felt that I Get It as I do now. Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Meaning, Nothing, Personal development, Sustainability, Work, wu-wei
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The Year of Nothing, Part 1
It’s been a year since I quit the PR industry and took the plunge into an intense process of self re-discovery and growth. Through a series of posts, I’ll recap what I’ve achieved since then, and where I’m going from here. Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Furth, Consumerism, Friendship, Nothing, Personal development, Stuff, wu-wei
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Beyond flow: meaning as the key for truly fulfilling work
In a previous post we argued that an important condition for us to truly love our work is for it to allow us to regularly achieve a state of flow. But developing a truly fulfilling relationship with our work goes a long way beyond that.
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Tagged Happiness, Human condition, Love, Non-conformism, Personal development, Strenghts, Success, Work
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What does it mean to love our work? Hint: It’s not about success (Part II)
One of the conditions for work to contribute genuinely to happiness is that we enjoy, in a very particular way, to practice — doing the work itself. Continue reading
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Tagged Happiness, Human condition, Love, Non-conformism, Personal development, Strenghts, Success, Work
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Working long hours can kill you… or resurrect you!
The talk about working long hours is overwhelmingly negative, but this assumes that people don’t love their work. Continue reading
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Tagged Love, Malcolm Gladwell, Non-conformism, Personal development, Work
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