The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
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The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
life. The next time you are at the airport, instead of buying a business magazine or a lifestyle one, read Scientific American, or vice versa. My mother, the medievalist, reads the Harvard Business Review at the airport. The next time you meet a person who is interested in something you find boring or obscure or hard to understand, see if you can p
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TIP ONE: ASK DEEP QUESTIONS
A deep question asks someone about their values, beliefs or experiences. Rather than asking someone about the facts of their life (“Where do you live?”) it asks how they feel about their life. (“What’s the best part of where you live?”) Studies show that people love answering deep questions, because it gives us a chance ... See more
A deep question asks someone about their values, beliefs or experiences. Rather than asking someone about the facts of their life (“Where do you live?”) it asks how they feel about their life. (“What’s the best part of where you live?”) Studies show that people love answering deep questions, because it gives us a chance ... See more
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Are you giving them space to think, consider, and respond? Have you turned the conversation over to them recently to get their opinion or contribution?
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When I think of you, I think of community. You’re so devoted to uplifting the voices of others. Can you talk about this impulse in yourself?
What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See more
What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See more