(wide achiever vs high achiever)
Pinnington, Ashly. (2001). Charles Handy. Philosophy of Management. 1. 47-55. 10.5840/pom2001136.
Thursday 31 December 2020
Tuesday 29 December 2020
Tempo Giusto
"Tempo Guisto" - "in exact time"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo_giusto
"The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing"
- Sten Nadolny, Author of The Discovery of Slowness (1996)
" ... a middle path, a recipe for marrying la dolce vita with the dynamism of the information age. The secret is balance: ..... do everything at the right speed. Sometimes fast. Sometimes slow. Sometimes somewhere in between."
- Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness (2004)
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201109-why-the-paradox-mindset-is-the-key-to-success
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190620-is-failure-the-new-literary-success
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200930-why-embracing-change-is-the-key-to-a-good-life
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2020/12/20-words-2020/index.html?shell
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/20-words-phrases-that-defined-2020-work-from-home
"What is life for? .... work ...... fun, ennobling .... enjoy .... intellectual challenge, .. physical exertion ... socializing ... status .... but to let work take over our lives is folly. There are too many important things that need time ... friends, family, hobbies ... rest"
- Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness (2004)
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives" and "It is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self"
- Agnes Repplier
Highest form of leisure is to be still and receptive to the world ...
- Plato (attributed in In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore)
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/10/leisure-the-basis-of-culture-josef-pieper/
My Perfect City: Mental health in Singapore (BBC)
https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2020/12/deep-reads-recommendations-for-my.html
Friday 25 December 2020
#Travel
Poh-Sun Goh, 26 December 2020 @ 0808am
Why do we travel? What is the "job to be done" (by travelling)?
What is our objective? Our intention? - To attend event, to meet (professional colleagues, friends, family), to connect (with people, places), to experience (new, different environments and lifestyles - sights, sounds, sensations, tastes, smells ... ), to leave behind (let go-temporarily or permanently, slow down or speed up, change pace ... space ... place)
How do we travel? - Physical (walking, public transport - wheels, single-multi, road, rail, water-river-sea, air ... space), Virtual, in our Minds (reflection, imagination, reading, audio, images-pictures, video, AR-VR-Mixed Reality)
How do we spend our time? Daily, Weekly, Seasonally, Annually? On a regular basis? Over a lifetime?
Who do we spend our time with? What do we spend our time, energy, attention on? Engage with? Commit (to)?
Essentially, who and what we spend our time, energy, attention and resources on is who we are, and become.
https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/how-the-pandemic-will-change-travel-in-2021-13863126
https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/travel-food-pandemic-13894588
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/tourism-companies-boost-digital-offerings
https://thetravellingspud.blogspot.com/2020/10/50-singapore-walking-trails.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54658147
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/virtual-travel-180974440/
Business travel: ‘We don’t know how many people will choose to fly’ (The Big Read, Travel and Leisure Industry, The Financial Times, published 14 January 2021)
Thursday 17 December 2020
Beginning - The First Steps
Beginning - The First Steps (of any journey)
Poh-Sun Goh
18 December 2020 @ 4.22am (early Friday morning, inspired by "hunger pangs")
It starts with (a) "hunger", or "thirst" for knowledge; awareness (both situational, and reflective-individual-personal), the demands for action (from the environment), producing feelings of uncertainty, discomfort, even pain and distress; motivating and incentivising purposeful action. To search for answers, information, knowledge, insights, wisdom. From books, publications, online, peers, those who have undertaken the journey previously, seniors, instructors, teachers, coaches.
Monday 14 December 2020
#Deep Reads (recommendations for my grandchildren)
#Deep Reads (recommendations for my grandchildren) - in no particular order
George Leonard. (1992). Mastery - The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment.
(The key message from this book, is that 'implementing' and making long term, sustained, and sustainable value and impact in our practice requires a 'Mastery' mental orientation, and mindset. )
Chalmers Brothers. (2005). Language and the pursuit of Happiness. New Possibilities Press.
(The key message from the book, is that our language, our choice of words, reflects and influences 'how' we 'look' at things, situations, and people; and has a powerful influence on how we en-'Vision' (our) future).
James Suzman. (2020). Work - A History of How We Spend Our Time. Bloomsbury, London.
In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads by Daniel T. Willingham
Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn by Mike Sharples
Diamonds Under Pressure: Five Steps to Turning Adversity into Success by Barry Faber
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther
One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clayson
Future Shock, and The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler ('Alvin Toffler: What he got right - and wrong' by Courtney Subramanian. BBC News, Washington; Published 30 June 2016)
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Lee Kai-Fu (Give the A.I. Economy a Human Touch by Lee Kai-Fu. NY Times, published Dec 10, 2020)
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer
Power Talk: Theatre Techniques that have helped thousands of executives give successful presentations by Nicki Flacks and Robert W. Rasberry
Power Talk: Using Language to Build Authority and Influence by Sarah Myers McGinty
Tactics: The Art and Science of Success by Edward de Bono
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search for a Life that Matters by Harold Kushner
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintainence: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee
The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei, and Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard
The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Straits Times, The Business Times and their websites, and the CNN, BBC, CNA websites
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Friday 11 December 2020
#Thoreau
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/90/walden-or-life-in-the-woods/1535/economy/
'Where I Lived, and What I Lived For' by Henry David Thoreau
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/90/walden-or-life-in-the-woods/1538/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/
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