Category: Openness

Openness

Open­ness is an essen­tial con­di­tion of liv­ing well. To be open means to be recep­tive to new infor­ma­tion, ideas, and expe­ri­ences – to be gen­uine­ly sen­si­tive to the world around us, avail­able to what is new and fresh, unblocked by the fil­ters of past con­di­tion­ing. It means to rise out of the grooves of habit… Con­tin­ue read­ing Open­ness

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The Ciphers and Riddles of the Words

Ellin’s love­ly com­ment on my post, “The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship,” helped me think about the ways we use lan­guage to either reveal or cloak our­selves in our con­tacts with oth­ers. This has noth­ing to do with being a native speak­er; in fact, being one may make some kinds of com­mu­ni­ca­tion more, not less dif­fi­cult. I… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ciphers and Rid­dles of the Words