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Buddha and the Bulls

By Hugh Delehant — 1994

A Buddhist practitioner for twenty years, Phil Jackson revolutionized coaching by leading with a Zen approach to the sport that centers on awareness training, selfless teamwork, and “aggressiveness without anger.”

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How to Collaborate with Creatives

In this episode, I’m back with 3 tips on how to collaborate with other creatives. Many times, proximity can work against you and you need someone with some distance to the project.

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Increase Your Self-Awareness with One Simple Fix - Tasha Eurich - TEDxMileHigh

Self-awareness has countless proven benefits—stronger relationships, higher performance, more effective leadership.

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When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.

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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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Ultimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.

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But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if ‘closeness’ means ‘sameness.’

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We are what we believe we are!

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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

Martin Luther King Jr.

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How to Comfort Someone

To comfort someone, you really need to be with them, listen, and show empathy.

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How Do I Step More Deeply into Presence?

Can you explain more about the “surface” of the present moment? How can we go deeper? The “surface” of the present moment contains the external forms we perceive with the physical senses—any of which can serve as a tool for stepping out of the thought stream.

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