Competing with Love

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March 3, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love. - A. K. Raha - Competing with Love "I had a hard time with most of my subjects, especially math. One day, after looking at my grades, my father had a heart-to-heart chat with me. He said, 'The way to crack your subjects is to fall in love with them. When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love.' I was in sixth grade around then, and decided to take him seriously and literally said, 'I love you' to my math textbook. Then, something strange happened. I actually fell in love. I started enjoying the mystery behind each geometric question, soaking in it, and experiencing joy when I was able to solve it. Over the years, it got to a point where I would finish all the exercises in the textbook in a day." On the art of competing with love: { read more } Be The Change Learn. Love. Work. Learn to love work; love to learn work; work to learn love. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Four Ways to Respond in an Argument The Most Vital Lessons for Starting Over 25 Reasons to Embrace Criticism Five Practices for Cultivating Patience 7 Habits of Mindful Eating 8 Ways to Sleep Better The Science of Self-Control Planning & Other Paths To Less Stress DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 112,789 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Designing for Generosity

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March 2, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - Paola Antonelli - Designing for Generosity What would the world look like if we designed for generosity? Instead of assuming that people want to simply maximize self-interest, what if our institutions and organizations were built around our deepest motivations? A recent TEDx talk explores this question and introduces the concept of Giftivism: the practice of radically generous acts that change the world. The video is charged with stories of such acts, ranging from: the largest peaceful transfer of land in human history, to a pay-it-forward restaurant, to a 10-year-old's unconventional birthday celebration, and the stunning interaction between a victim and his teenage mugger. With clarity and insight, it details the common threads that runs through all these gift manifestations, and invites us to participate through everyday acts of kindness -- in an uplifting global movement. { read more } Be The Change Engage in an act of giftivism. Do something radically generous, with focus on your inner experience, and observe its ripple effect. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 10 Worst Listening Habits -- and Their Cure The 3 A's of Awesome Top Ten Kindness Stories for the New Year 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings The 'Before I Die' Project Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness 29 Lessons From Travelling the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 112,753 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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"Steal" Like an Artist

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March 1, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. - T.S. Eliot - "Steal" Like an Artist "Austin Kleon is positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet. His Newspaper Blackout project is essentially a postmodern florilegium, using a black Sharpie to make art and poetry by redacting newspaper articles. In this excellent talk from The Economist's Human Potential Summit, titled 'Steal Like an Artist,' Kleon makes an articulate and compelling case for combinatorial creativity and the role of remix in the idea economy." Cultural Curator Maria Popova shares his 8-minute talk and her perspective on it. { read more } Be The Change Remix some ideas today, transforming someone else's contributions into new value. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Remembering Steve Jobs' Insights The Benefits of Single-Tasking The Decision-Making Flaw in Powerful People Leadership Lessons from Everyday Life Ways to Connect More Deeply 10 Keys for Achieving Group Flow The Miracle of Mistakes 6 Ways Ants are Good For Business DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 112,730 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Integrity

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February 29, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. - Bob Dylan - Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Integrity Let your better self rest assured: Dearly held values truly are sacred, and not merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as nobel intent. Neuroscientist Greg Berns of Emory University and colleagues posed a series of value-based statements to 27 women and 16 men while using an fMRI machine to map their mental activity. Test participants were asked if they'd sign a document stating the opposite of their belief in exchange for a chance at winning up to $100 in cash. If so, they could keep both the money and the document; only their consciences would know. The findings: when people didn't sell out their principles, it wasn't because the price wasn't right. It just seemed wrong. "If it's a sacred value to you, then you can't even conceive of it in a cost-benefit framework," said Berns. This Wired Magazine article shares further. { read more } Be The Change "Truth is a quality of the mind that doesn't depend on figuring things out or being clever." A short reflection on putting integrity in action. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 5 Ways of Spending Time -- toward Happiness Save Energy by Breathing Eat to Prevent Cancer Visit the MET From Your Desk Is the Internet Changing the Way We Think? Genius of the Fold Ice Cream Truck of the Digital Age Graphene Wins Nobel Prize DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 112,696 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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