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One of the most powerful personal and professional development tools is the SWOT analysis. But what is SWOT analysis? Learn all about it here: How to Carry Out a Personal SWOT Analysis for a Successful Life
Despite turbulence and other conditions keeping airplanes off course 90 percent of flight time, most flights arrive in the correct destination at the intended time: If You’re Too Busy for These 5 Things, Your Life Is More Off Course Than You Think
A conversation about truth and reconciliation in the US: Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
To love well, balance autonomy and connection: Love in the Profound Part of the Brain
The anger that keeps on giving: How to Deal with a Badmouthing Ex
Practicing a few new habits can go a long way: 5 Ways to Improve Your Relationship With Yourself
In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness…
The Equal Justice Initiative founder discusses the roots of police violence, how to change the culture of policing, and the frustration and despair behind this week’s protests: Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests
Today’s National Day of Mourning can help us build toward justice for all: How to Use Anger as a Catalyst for Action
How can you help build resilience in your child? Here are 8 things to consider: 8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do
Keep this story in mind when talking with stubborn people: “The earliest strong match for the modern saying located by QI appeared in the January 3, 1948 issue of “The Saturday Evening Post” within a profile of Cyrus Stuart Ching who was the head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: A man in the audience began heckling him with a long series of nasty and irrelevant questions. For a while Ching answered patiently. Finally he held up his big paw and waggled it gently. “My friend,” he said, “I’m not going to answer any more of your questions. I hope you won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy and the pig likes it.’”
Source: Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It – Quote Investigator
“The quote “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us” is often mistakenly attributed to Marshall McLuhan. It does NOT appear in “Understanding Media”, as Wilson Miner confidently asserts in the presentation below, indeed it does not appear in any published work by McLuhan at all. The quote was actually written by Father John Culkin, SJ, a Professor of Communication at Fordham University in New York and friend of McLuhan. But though the quote is Culkin’s, I would argue that the idea is McLuhan’s, as it comes up in an article by Culkin about McLuhan: Culkin, J.M. (1967, March 18). A schoolman’s guide to Marshall McLuhan. Saturday Review, pp. 51-53, 71-72. The idea presented in the quote is entirely consistent with McLuhan’s thinking on technology in general.”
Source: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” | McLuhan Galaxy
Final scene in which Private Ryan, as an older man, sees the grave of Captain Miller and says to his wife, “Tell me I’m a good man.”
When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside. Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.
Sinek, Simon. Leaders Eat Last Deluxe (p. 16). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Five tips to harness the benefits of confinement: The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat
Why is it so hard to leave a covert narcissist? He or She Reels You In to Pull the Rug
I’m settling for being a “good enough” mom: Quaran-Teen Parenting
Bright, Shiny Objects! 
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