01/01/1970: Meetings can be a black hole that sucks your soul from your body. Priya Parker describes how to make them more intentional.
I have long been obsessed with intention in even the mundane tasks in life. Priya Parker has put intention into gatherings and meetings. I talked to her about her book and her ideas on Prime Time 3/16/23 as a part of our shifting workplace special. We wanted to talk to her because if the workplace is changing and companies need to improve their culture to make work a place worth returning to then they’re going to have to be more intentional about making meaning out of the day:
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03/28/2023: See the gift, ease the burden.
A few things 51 years have taught me:
1. Mean people suck
2. It’s easy to be nice
3. Everyone has at least one gift and one burden.
4. The greater the gift the heavier the burden is to bear.
5. You have no idea what burdens the people around you bear so don’t judge them.— RandomWhiteGuy 📖 Heretic & Disheveled Misfit (@TheReelRandom) August 10, 2018
Everyone has at least one gift and one burden. It is hard to find the gift in some people. See the gift, ease the burden.