What We're Thinking
How we choose to talk about where we are and where we’re going is no small matter.
The way we choose to talk about things is vitally important. As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously put it, “Words create worlds.” Embedded in this elegant three word sentence is the transformative idea that language does not describe what we see, it forms it, gives it shape, creates it.
Five steps toward coherent conversation and authentic exchanges.
We humans come together in different ways whenever we want to accomplish something. This is called organizing and it puts us in a relationship with one another. These relationships are built on, moved by, and sustained through conversation.
Ideas I have found useful
Success in navigating complexity requires a particular outlook or mindset, which includes a commitment to staying in the present as much as possible. I’m always surprised at how challenging my monkey brain makes it to do that. Staying in the moment requires letting go any worries about the future and any assessments from the past.
A risk at all times, but even more acute now.
A little over a week ago we had a kerfuffle over the departure of a number of senior administrative staff from the US State Department. Remember that? I know. It seems so long ago. A quick refresher: on Jan 26, four career Foreign Service officers, each of whom served under both Democratic and Republican administrations left the agency.
