We like to celebrate and reward visionary leaders, like Steve Jobs. He certainly created revolutionary technology which I’m using to type this post. Yes I’m a fan of Apple. And yet, any CEO making 271 times more than the average employee is simply wrong. Top CEOs Make More in Two Days Than An Average Employee Does in […]
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#RPCL Log Date July 17, 2017 #BeingHuman #AcceptAbsoluteTruthsandLies #EmbraceShadesofRightandWrong
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the media wants us to believe in absolutes. And while there are absolute truths and lies, or absolute right and wrong, there are also shades of right and wrong. So what does that mean? There are backstories to everything. Just as divorce can get ugly, there are always […]
#RPCL Log Date July 13, 2017 #BeingHuman #AreYouInControl #ControlFreak #EmotionalDrivers
I was listening to a program on Ted Radio Hour with Guy Raz about parasites. The author and speaker Ed Yong shares his research and theory on how much influence parasites truly have over other life forms, including potentially humans. Apparently 1 in 3 people have Toxoplasmosis in their brains, and this parasite can redirect rats […]
#RPCL Log Date July 12, 2017 #BeingHuman #BeARenegade #BeSuperHuman #WonderWoman
I love movies like The Avengers or Wonder Woman, where superheroes have incredibly tragic, human moments before they are confronted with what to do with their lives. There is a line from Wonder Woman which the character Steve says (played by Chris Pine in the movie). “MY FATHER TOLD ME ONCE, ‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING WRONG HAPPENING […]
#RPCL Log Date July 11, 2017 #BeingHuman #ExistentialCrisis #ChangeYourConquest #EmotionalFulfillment
We were having dinner with friends when I was describing a recent story from a therapist about his clients who are stuck 40-something male (company name here) employees seeking counseling. (You can probably insert software or other companies too, but in his case it was all one software company). They can’t quit. The money is too good. […]
#RPCL Log Date July 10, 2017 #BeingHuman #KnowWhatYouDon’tKnow
I was discussing my irritation with a friend about this excuse bandied about in companies. “I don’t know what I don’t know”. Drives me bonkers. Probably because at some point children, you need to just know that you don’t know EVERYTHING. Seriously. And then when you later say, “oops. I didn’t know what I didn’t know” […]
#RPCL Log Date July 9, 2017 #BeingHuman #SlowDown #OneDayAtATime #EveryDayIsAWindingRoad
Language can be so meaningful, or so cliché. I love pop culture for both reasons – you can get deeper meaning in the clichés! So why not heed the one-day-at-a-time TV title or everyday-is-a-winding-road song title? If life were meant to be a quick and straight line, then it wouldn’t be a rich and meaningful […]
#RPCL Log Date July 8, 2017 #BeingHuman #ChooseANewAdventure
Life is full of choices. I know, I know. This is a fairly privileged point of view. And yet even the most privileged can make bad choices. So what do we do with our freedom, to the extent that we have some freedom to move about without a tether? And what do we do when […]
#RPCL Log Date July 7, 2017 #BeingHuman #workerbees #Don’tbeaDrone
I think I am having an epiphany. Could it be that for so long, we have been teaching employees to become drones (as in bees or ants, not in the aerial vehicle drones), so that they don’t have emotional outbursts and challenge authority? Could it be, that instead of learning Emotional Intelligence we are learning to be […]
#RPCL Log Date July 6, 2017 #BeingHuman #FastExitPlan #TheSmartOnes
What’s your fast exit plan? I was talking to some folks ranging in age somewhere between 35 and 50, and learning why they’ve either left or plan to leave their corporate jobs. For the younger end of the range, they decided that corporate America had such a false sense of urgency and clients were making […]
