Both collaboration and competition can help big business be the force for good.
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In October, 2010, Alice Walker joined Googlers in Mountain View for a day of conversation and readings from her latest book of poetry, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing.
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with poet David Whyte about the importance of work and relationships, the balance between training and expressing of one’s talents, the lessons of mortality, and other topics.
The Character Lab was created to study strategies and practices that build character, to create educational tools from scientific insights, to create new ways to measure character and to change the conversation about character development in K-12 education.
She's Oprah Winfrey's soul sister, and her books became big best sellers: Elizabeth Lesser. Back in the day, she used to be a midwife. It taught her that when you are going through a rough patch, it's just like in labor: resistance is useless, try to relax and embrace the situation.
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For months, Katie has been thinking about quitting her job. Although the 27-year-old feels fortunate to have a good job that pays well, her co-workers' negative energy makes the work environment unhealthy. "I can feel when there's toxic energy around," Katie explains.
The difference between average and outstanding? Emotional intelligence. Your next job may depend on your EQ and not your IQ. Emotional intelligence shows how you can apply your smarts.
The purpose of this video is to relay the most sublime teaching of Sunyata—silence beyond any idea of silence, peace beyond any idea of peace, love beyond any idea of love, and the vast emptiness of the omniscience that defies description (gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā).
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Your relationship to work defines your success. If you do whatever's in front of you so magnificently, with all your heart, the Universe can't help but surrender to you.