Inspiration Above Motivation
Lincoln Stoller2023-12-03T01:55:49-08:00You have an inner voice, but it will not argue with you. It will not compete for your attention.
You have an inner voice, but it will not argue with you. It will not compete for your attention.
It takes a good sales pitch for new ideas to prosper. New ideas are pressured to pursue a path of happy promises.
As the foundation of your ability to see holistically, emotions are an essential ingredient of any viable notion of intelligence, not a separate notion of intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence requires feeling, not intellect. It’s the manipulation of emotion that’s done using awareness.
Emotional intelligence should require a measure of positive outcome: how much and for whom. Self-awareness and emotional experience are completely different.
How networks can create a way of measuring, and how this measurement can evolve as a network changes.
The different skills of non-reductive, systems thinking are aspects of a single approach that’s integrated into the single term “resonance.”
I’m interested in networks because I suspect they can describe aspects of nature beyond mathematics and sentences.
As Peter Drucker indicates, happiness, like money, comes when the system is working. You don’t aim for the money and you don’t aim for happiness, you aim to make the system work.
I believe happiness and success are dispensable accessories to spiritual balance. You don't need either, and their pursuit is a distraction.
Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.
The creative process is something unto itself and, like love or excitement, it does not aim for resolution... Real creation is, at some level, self-creation and the tragedy of an idea’s failure is a personal one.