A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man’s wisdom even if he associates
with a sage. – Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama)
I don’t want to comment too much on this one, other than to say you must be open to learning and change, otherwise . . . .
This post focuses on the first competence of Emotional Intelligence*, Emotional Self-awareness (contained within the Self-Awareness Domain): Leaders high in emotional self-awareness are attuned to their inner signals, recognizing how their feelings affect them and their job performance. They are attuned to their guiding values and can often intuit the best course of action, seeing…
Being honest may not always get you many friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones. – John Lennon I’ve heard Jim Rohn say that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. It’s true. It’s also true that sometimes there are things you need to hear that most…
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. – Confucius The nature of humans and collections thereof is that good is rewarded (and the not-good is either ignored, or punished). When you serve others, you serve yourself. How? Because there really isn’t any other . . . .
“Just because you don’t take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles Ignorance of the law is no defense. A police officer and/or judge doesn’t doesn’t care if you were aware of a law or not if you get caught breaking it. For example, when you get…
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone One of my defining beliefs on failure comes from Tony Robbins: there’s…
The path to a better life is more of a mining operation than a manufacturing one. – George Pransky What I think Pransky is saying here is that having a better life (which comes from being (behaving as) a better person) comes not from getting something from outside yourself or making yourself into something else,…