Have you ever had an experience with someone who you suspect may be miserable at work? I have. In fact, I’ve spent my whole day dealing with people who appear to be unhappy at work.
Have you ever had an experience with someone who you suspect may be miserable at work? — You kidding me?
Meaning comes from the pursuit of more complex things than happiness
”Everything can be taken from a man but one thing,” Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
“Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided,” the authors write.
How do the happy life and the meaningful life differ? Happiness, they found, is about feeling good. Specifically, the researchers found that people who are happy tend to think that life is easy, they are in good physical health, and they are able to buy the things that they need and want. While not having enough money decreases how happy and meaningful you consider your life to be, it has a much greater impact on happiness. The happy life is also defined by a lack of stress or worry.
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“To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities, and not just any old reality but a better one.”
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Use the profit motive to return college to the real world.
Is Disneyland really the happiest place on Earth?* How happy is the city you live in? We have already seen how the hedonometer can be used to find the happiest street corner in New York City, now i…
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A Hangout on Air — MOOCs and Business
Content - Just what the title says… along with an infographic and a host of examples, illustrations, and explanations.
Feed the beast what it likes.
GGSC
Summary advice from Greater Good Science Center
Imagine if a company had a ‘no fire’ policy. The impacts touch everything. David Marquet interviewed Charlie Kim, the CEO of NextJump, a company focused on rewards and loyalty programs….
“Changing the social contract so fundamentally — treating people like family and not discardable — is a completely radical move. I am sure that we we’ll see more of this idea as more companies begin to realize the value of standing for something more that increasing profits for the shareholders.”
If we are permanent stakeholders, we are owners. It does make a difference. Certainty in an uncertain world.
I imagine a lot of people would go for that.
Music video by Bobby McFerrin performing Don’t Worry Be Happy.
This is great. It will bring a smile to your face.
For some, that smile will not last for another minute.
You saw, you came, you lost interest. Don’t worry.
The home page for Santa Fe Institute’s MOOC on Complexity.
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Build good habits.
Steve Denning is on fire today. Claudio Perrone via Alexander Fürstenau In fact, lots of us were on fire yesterday for the global event, Stoos Connect, aka World Stoos Day.
Read this one.
The Stoos Movement, by which I mean the zeitgeist of 21st century management, is one factor pushing for change.
Steve Denning has his fingers on the pulse. For a lucid view of what we need, Steve’s got my vote.
Unfortunately, we need a Winston Churchill to rally the support for risking what works for what’s more likely to work in the future.
I’m going to blog on this because it’s not taught in school. It amazes me how many common sense deniers are out there.
Living in earthquake country, my mind accepts the fact that all of us are surfing on tectonic plates.
Hell of a wild surf ride from L.A. to the Point Reyes Peninsula an hour north of Berkeley. Forget Endless Summer; this was a 4 million year ride 500 miles, two plates scraping together, boom, boom, shake, shake, grinding out Route 1, Big Sur, and the entire Western Seashore.
Most of the time, nothing happens beyond being startled and a the pictures on the walls in jaunty l the canned goods falling on the floor.
Trying to straddle the 20th century and 21st century worldviews can rip you a new one.
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Let’s get weird.
Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and well-being in the workplace. His calling is to help millions of people be happy in their lives and effective at work. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago.
