Aha of today

#ahaoftoday This volunteer-driver platform for matching mentors and mentees: https://adplist.org/. Just in case your org doesn’t have an internal mentoring program and you crave growth 😉

#ahaoftoday Style and personality are two different things. Style is learned and you don’t need to be a different person to do things differently.

#ahaoftoday Defeat Retrospective Coherence: Instead of saying “Why didn’t they just…?”, try saying “They paved the way for me to move forward” OR “It was an experiment with negative results”. I’ve done my fair share of negative-results experiments…

#ahaoftoday Measure the gain, not the gap. In other words, focus on how much progress you’ve made, instead of how far you are from your goal. It might make your days happier 😉

#ahaoftoday “You tend to form a global impression unless you make a special effort not to form a global impression” – Daniel Kahneman

#ahaoftoday Occasionally, people may behave in a genuinely negative manner, but the meaning we attach to the situation exponentially increases our pain and suffering.

#ahaoftoday “Innovation is almost always a collaborative process[…], it requires high intellectual friction and low social friction” – T. Clark

#ahaoftoday The reason why I get triggered is because I think (even just a bit) that their judgment/evaluation of me is true.

#ahaoftoday “The near enemy of connection is control” – Brene Brown

#ahaoftoday 2 types of empathy: Affective(sensations and feelings we get in response to others’ emotions, e.g. mirroring another’s feelings, or feeling stressed at another’s fear or anxiety) and Cognitive (identifying and understanding other’s emotions).