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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Helen Vendler: On Teaching Poetry
Shame: How does it affect writing?
Read this excellent article:
WORD COUNT
WRITERS TALK ABOUT WRITING
Are you proud of your ability to write? Or do you secretly feel embarrassed, worried or even ashamed about it?
I ask these questions because shame is something that sets you up for repeated failure and self-disappointment. It's undermining rather than helpful.
Read the rest of the article here.
Reminded me of the work of Brené Brown and a previous post...
No Shame - Step Inside the Circle
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose and Hacking Zoom School
"This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.The full, non-animated RSA talk can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-h...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Listen to this Conversation: Brené Brown with Dr. Sarah Lewis on The Rise, the Creative Process and the Difference Between Mastery and Success
The power of art...
I have been thinking about this idea a lot this year.
How might art save us in this dark year?
How might art offer a new imagination to representation for social justice?
How might creativity move us from despair?
In our solitude, we might feel less alone. Less isolated. If there were greater sense of purpose, we could read whatever we always wanted to read.
Seeking mastery, we might learn how to learn new hobbies - from cooking to scrapbooking.
So much to learn and now we have this time this year, but we wish it away to get back to normal. The business of traveling and jetting around the world. Now we zoom.
Wherever we go there we are.
How do we chase success?
How do we fear failure?
How do we strive for mastery?
To learn, to grow, to live. I wonder...
Listen to this:
Brené Brown: Hi everyone, I’m Brené Brown, and welcome to the Dare to Lead Podcast. This is such a great conversation. Grab your journal, grab a pen and a piece of paper, you’re going to want to take notes on this one. It is somewhere between a full-on, geek out kind of nerdriffic conversation and just wholeheartedness. And for me, personally, moving conversation with Dr. Sarah Lewis. So it’s a two-part series. This is Part One. We talk about her book, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. And Sarah and I talk about why the word failure doesn’t quite capture the often transformative experience of falling and beginning again. We also talk about the difference between success and mastery. And for me, this is so important because mastery is very important to me and not something we talk about enough. And we also talk about the power of setting audacious goals that are right outside our grasp. I cannot wait to bring you this conversation. I think you are going to love it. Dr. Sarah Lewis, it’s moving, it’s a moving conversation.
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Michael Gazzaniga: Early Split-Brain Research
Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.
Friday, July 3, 2020
TGIF Home Again: Learning and Listening from Vincent Harding to Jason Reynolds - Both Citing James Baldwin
"Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ’50s and ’60s was spiritually as well as politically vigorous; it aspired to a “beloved community,” not merely a tolerant integrated society. He pursued this through patient-yet-passionate cross-cultural, cross-generational relationships. And he posed and lived a question that is freshly in our midst: Is America possible?"
Excerpt:
Listen to June 25th, 2020 Interview with Jason Reynolds:
"James Baldwin, my famous Baldwin quote, and he has a gazillion, obviously. But my favorite Baldwin quote is, “The interior life is the real life.” The interior life is the real life. “And the intangible dreams of a person may have a tangible effect on the world.” It’s basically saying, what one can imagine, internally, what one can think about when nobody knows, when nobody’s around, one’s secrets, could shift human life. What an amazing thing to think about.
"Mavis Nicholson speaks exclusively to American Civil rights activist and renowned Playwright novelist, essayist, poet, and social critic James Baldwin. First shown: 02/12/1987"
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