Letting Learners Teach Themselves — Interview

“We don’t stop absorbing the new. We keep inviting it. We keep that curiosity. And I think that this is important, that we look at everything coming our way with curiosity rather than with judgment.” Read More

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps — Interview

“When we don’t understand ourselves well enough and when we don’t understand the ways we trip up consistently, we act as though we haven’t tripped up, and that gets us into even more trouble.” — Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer Garvey Berger writes in her new book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps about unhelpful patterns of behavior that we fall… Read More

Being Unafraid to Be with Someone — Interview

“Exercise your witnessing muscle: Go find a good photography book and look at it long and hard. Look at the pictures and practice empathy. Practice witnessing a story that you weren’t there to see and I promise you will find yourself moved. And whatever the source of that empathy is, see if you can’t direct… Read More

Signaling in the Right Direction — Interview

We live in a world where your attention is the most valuable thing you have to offer. It’s in some ways even more valuable even than the money in your pocket, or even more valuable than your vote. The things you choose to allocate your attention to — the shows you watch, the news you… Read More

Finding Meaning Underneath the Plot — Interview

“We’re really interested in the plot of our lives, but we’re not as interested in the way the plot unfolds — the meaning underneath the plot. And if we were to get more interested collectively in not just what’s happening to me but making sense of what’s happening to me, that is a question that… Read More

Learning to Be Authored — Interview

Most of us don’t have literacy — we weren’t trained in school to be literate — in the language of transformation, in the basic math and ABCs of transformation. So how do I learn to listen to my silent thoughts and feelings and track them down to core assumptions that are actually limiting? That if… Read More

Passing the Equal Rights Amendment — Interview

One of the things that will be incredibly important this year, in 2018, is everyone’s action to vote. And to vote out the people who don’t support our issues and vote in the people who do. Because this year has really shown people that politics touches your life, whether or not you like it. It… Read More

Walking Away from Money — Interview

Everybody’s going to have to do tax planning now. At least for the first year or two — to see what, if anything, they can do to reduce their tax obligation. Even if they’re going to get a savings automatically, just from being who they are with the tax laws the way they’re going to… Read More

Fostering an Engaged Citizenry — Interview

A democracy cannot function if you basically have a political civil war: The sense that politics is a zero-sum game, where one side loses everything and the other wins everything, and it’s all about winning against the other side. That can bring you political wins for a certain amount of time, but it doesn’t stabilize… Read More

Building Adaptive Capacity — Interview

Do we want to build a secure and resilient system for powering . . . our country? And do we want to attack the biggest challenge of collective action in the course of human civilization? And those are the two questions that we have to answer. — Michael Wu Michael Wu is the founder and… Read More