📚 Week #23 of 52 of reading … a week of beautiful focus on how people interact with other to make individual lives better and live resilient, creative and lives that provide a sense of mattering.
“The One and Only Family” by Katherine Applegate.
We love these books in our house & have read them together in some fashion each time. We frequently recommend and lend these books.
⏰ When time tells a story, surprises are the one thing you can count on.
🤔 We all learn from example. But what if there is no example to follow?
‼️ Instead of a hurting place to avoid, some things need to become a healing place to seek out.
❤️ The world is made of miracles.
⭐️ Stories take flight … you can’t exile stories. You can’t ban truth. You can’t cage hope.
I don’t always read the author’s note, and I’m glad I read this one. (Or my husband read it to my youngest while I listened because this is how I read this one.)
💖 Stories help us ready ourselves. For joy, for sorrow, for growth. They teach us empathy. They let us practice being better humans.
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
🎧 Good listening, when it works, reveals new worlds beneath the surface of people’s words.
‼️ NASA screens for EQ.
🤔 Part of EQ is matching mood and energy.
‼️ Discomfort pushes us to think before we speak, to try to understand how others see or hear things differently. Discomfort reminds us to keep going, that the goal is worth the challenge.
❗️ It’s important to not only criticize but contribute.
❓ The definition of and importance of deep questions.
🤔 We should focus less on perspective taking & instead on perspective getting (this matches my ask, don’t assume leadership principle. )
⭐️ How important it is to think about how a conversation will occur, not just what is said
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“Tomorrowmind: Thriving at work with resilience, creativity & connection — Now and in an uncertain Future” by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, MD and Martin Seligman.
I wish I could remember how I found my way to this book. It provided such important insights for me. For anyone who likes interesting intersections of topics, this is for you!
✔️ We cannot stop change, but we don’t need to fall victim to it.
‼️ The future will require more of us who are builders who love to learn.
🤔 Skills are “retiring” every 18 months
5️⃣ Five factors for building resilience: emotional regulation, optimism, cognitive ability, self-compassion & self-efficacy
❤️ Emotions have much to teach us but are blunt communicators.
❗️Employees & teams benefit from resilient leaders.
⭐️ Noticing and savoring your own sense of growth can increase your sense of purpose & satisfaction.
🧠 The importance of cognitive agility: the ability to balance open exploration with focused attention & tolerate conflicting pieces of information.
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