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It Takes One Person to Act
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In his book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell asserted that studies show someone is less likely to be helped if in trouble in a crowd. In other words, the more people present in an emergency the less likely anyone will help. Possibly because people are all expecting that someone else will act. However, I…
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Conflict Resolution : Pushing Through Tempests in Teapots
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Shit happens. People can be obnoxious, obscure, obstreperous, obtuse, oblivious and pretty much any form of obstructionist you can imagine. And at some point, whoever you are, you’re going to find yourself perching awkwardly, and possibly innocently, in the middle of a firestorm of ‘he said, she said, blah blah blah.’ So what do…
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Embrace What Is : A Subtle Mindshift
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We are only in charge of our own lives, paths and journeys. Sure shit happens. Life is not always a walk in the park. Indeed it is only really in the struggle and clearing away obstacles that we truly find clarity and growth. The world outside of our inner thoughts, perceptions, biases and values…
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Status Update: So Many People, So Much Despair ……… What to do about it.
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Social media opens all these windows into people’s lives. One sees much more than one would like to, a lot of the time. Young people’s anger and despondency and generally hostility broadcast in disappointed detail for all the world to see. Why? How does it help? Are you looking for pity or sympathy? Validation? …