Narrative structure is a concept that is familiar to all of us from an early age. We understand at least on a superficial level that a story has tension, plot twists, rising and falling action, and a climax where the tension accumulates and releases either in triumph or tragedy. We can see Aristotle’s narrative structure in virtually every popular dramatic story in our culture. … Read More Plotting Your Story
Which would be worse: To one day wake up in the middle of the night wondering what the point has been of all your hard work, or to go through your entire life without once stopping to ponder that question. To understand justice and morality, ancient Greek philosophers contemplated what they called telos, or one’s ultimate purpose. This philosophy has carried over into our contemporary culture. In our professional … Read More Telos
There are real problems in this world. In fact it’s sort of hard not to notice just how much trouble there is out there. And of course we all have our own problems, too. It can be overwhelming. We certainly don’t need to go out of our way to manufacture problems—turn our attention to made-up problems and fret about those. That would be ludicrous, no? … Read More We All Got Problems
There is a tendency among many organizations to hire fewer staff than are able to satisfy actual workload demand. For example, organizations that operate on some kind of cycle often staff to some estimation of the mean of that cycle. That is, they acquire a staff that satisfies demand at a level between peak season and slow season. Organizations that do not experience this kind of demand fluctuation, may … Read More Foster the People
Running teaches us about life. When you first start running you hit a point of exhaustion and you believe that it is a signal telling you it is time to stop. Later you discover that this is not necessarily the case. Instead, you learn how to push through that exhaustion in a special way. It is effort without aggression. A kind of pushing where you let go … Read More Running and Aliveness
