TMRW/TDY
Ideas of TMRW to Enhance your TDY
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Hey Reader,
⏀ My podcast launches soon!- Alchemy of Politics, now rebranded the Tomorrow List, starts off with its inaugural guest Dr Gabor Mate. Listen to it next week anywhere you get your podcasts. He is one of the leading thought leaders on trauma, creativity, and meaning in life. We talk about the mental health challenge in the country and his new book The Myth of Normal
💡We didn’t create the world but it is our job to finish it – to create the world as it should be and not just as it is. Become a person of TMRW and listen to the Tomorrow List.
⏀ Quote I’m pondering – Why join the navy when you can be a pirate? – Anonymous
💡Sometimes you have to break the rules.
⏀ Cathedral Thinking- We have a society that favors the short term and speed way beyond long term vision building. In addition to attention spans dwindling, we have few brick layers and even fewer cathedral thinkers. Can you work on a goal even when you don’t see the immediate return on your efforts? When the results may not be manifest in the next week, year or decade? Or even lifetime? A person that can do that is exceedingly special and exceedingly rare.
💡Re-frame your goals in terms of their highest purpose and vision. You’re here to build cathedrals not just lay bricks.
⏀ Worst First – Alpine CEO and Stanford GSB lecturer Graham Weaver talks about his life philosophy in this short clip:
💡Everything you want in life is on the other side of worst first.
⏀ Bowling Alone – Harvard’s Robert Putnam became a celebrity academic when he published Bowling Alone over 20 years ago. It expertly detailed the breakdown of civic engagement in America and the dire consequences as a result. In this new NYT interview, he comments on how this trend has only gotten worse. Loneliness it the root cause of the deaths of despair; the crisis among boys; has exacerbated income inequality; has defined social media; and yes may have contributed to the the recent assassination attempt. We must join or die, as we did as former British colonies to create America and represented by this famous lithograph:
💡We need to come together. Leaders and businesses that can create a community will not have success as a constraint in their lives. People want to belong.
