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Helping Friendly Newsletter, 01.14.22
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Here are this week’s 5 things to consider:
1. Don’t worry
To the seekers, the late bloomers, the slow rollers, and everyone who hasn’t attained sainthood: You’re not alone. You’re doing all right. “Things take the time they take.”
2. Bad advice
Combine the complexity of human behavior with the incentives of a content economy, and there is a TON of bad management advice floating around. (Beware.) I like this framework from Jonathan and Melissa Nightingale for sorting the good, the bad, and the ugly.
3. Interdependence
All January, I’ll be reading and sharing ideas from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s sermon collection, Strength to Love. This week’s theme is human interdependence, which King called “an inescapable network of mutuality.” Peace and justice to you and all beings this MLK Day and beyond.
4. Emotion and ecology
To face climate change, we will need a deep emotional well. And that will require rich language for us to share stories, inspire action, transform culture, and mourn losses. I hope we can become more fluent together.
5. Moment of calm
Take a moment, or take 10 hours. Volume up for extra chill.
Thank you for reading
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Treasure chest
I bet you find a gem ➔ when reparations grow from the grassroots | how great coaches ask, listen, and empathize | a guide to wholehearted planning | how Jack White restricts himself to force creativity | maybe I’m not even here, and other crazy beautiful stuff physics told me | stunning storm photography, paired with poems | the 21st century renaissance of Native American fiction | slumber parties and folklore | a drunk clock | covid standard time1 | boop👇🏼
Have a great weekend! I’ll see you again soon.
Jenny
Via Roxane Gay.
Thanks for sharing the Jack White clip. I'm a firm believer that limitation breeds creativity and it's great to hear that it's inspiring for one of my favorite artists, as well. I learned this early on in my jewelry making days. There are SO many options when you walk into a bead store that it's simply overwhelming. I learned to limit my choices and found that it created better results.