For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Last week I said I envied Obama’s patience in conflict, and this week as promised brings more about what it takes to display that sort of poise. This discussion also keys into two of the main themes that run through my thinking and writing. One is that the foundation of good behavior is built not [...]
“I’m sort of sad and sort of glad the holiday season’s over. It’s been fun, but there’s something slightly grungy about unstructured time. It’s like I forget who I am.” During the holidays, incentives and disincentives change. You may still be performing under pressure, but, for these few weeks, it’s for relatives, not clients or [...]
In what’s called Lojong practice, Buddhists meditate on slogans. My favorite says, “Drive all blames to one.” This slogan promises an end to squabbles over who is right and who is wrong, suggesting a big clearinghouse somewhere to which we can drive all blames. Of course, if the slogan is to be of practical use, [...]
Months back I wrote about an important, overlooked dynamic in evolution called Redundancy and Relaxation*. When you have two ways to do something, performance pressure is relaxed, which brings about either innovation or flakiness. It’s like R&R: The boss says, “We’ve got someone to take your place for a couple of weeks, so for now, [...]
Last “Mind-Reader’s” was about floodlighting, a technique for overcoming both rashness and indecisiveness on soft decisions. Floodlighting is the alternative to spotlighting the options you’re for or against. To floodlight is to illuminate all the available options at once, that is, to explore your full decision space rather than swinging your spotlight from one isolated [...]
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