Category: Vertical Development
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Deep Listening Requires Listening to the Person’s Suffering, Rather Than Trying to Correct Their Misperceptions
Then, when we are ready to listen deeply, we can listen without interrupting. If we try to interrupt or correct the other person, we will transform the session into a debate and it will ruin…
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Understanding Our Own Suffering to Understand the Suffering of Others
We tend to think we already know and understand our loved ones very well, but that may not be so. If we haven’t understood our own suffering and our own perceptions, how can we understand…
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Authentically Learning to Lead Yourself
Authenticity implies a way of being in the world wherein you remain true to the spirit of who you are at the soul level. The needs of the ego drive the first part of our…
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I Wonder Over Three Lifetimes
In a little over a month, I’ll be 61. Yet 25 years ago, my conventional life got upended, leading me on a meaningful adventure I never would have imagined possible at the time. In the…
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Opportunities for Growth & Development Are Hiding in Plain Sight All Around You
Something is becoming evident to me in the articulation of my work. What’s evident to me is that most of it is hiding in plain sight, often within everyday articles that you read online, yet…
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Potential Possibilities Await Those Who Explore Uncertainty as an Opportunity
Jonny Caplan reveals how those who wait for certainty often miss out to those exploring gaps of opportunity within uncertain times. Entrepreneurship has never been about possessing a crystal ball. It has always been about…
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Transforming Companies Requires Focusing on the Right Type of Developmental Work
Scott Hutcheson on how AI may be allowing people to do more work but it may not be making work more sustainable, as that would require a new work operating system that actually transforms the…
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Learning to See What’s Entangled Below the Surface of Our Problems
Seth Godin on how what’s keeping you stuck trying to solve a problem often isn’t the problem itself but rather a bunch of heavy, entangled baggage we need to let go of. We often stay…
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Opening & Expanding Your Self by Falling Into Yourself
Andrew Holecek on falling into your deeper self, the you beyond what you’re doing. Who you think you are is defined by what you do. Who you really are is revealed when you finally stop…
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Finding the Meaning in Your Suffering by Following Your Curiosity
Dr. James Hollis on the exploration of meaning and purpose within the curious depth of ourselves. You know, if if we run from our inner calling or you know, predilections, um we might live a…