Good day and happy holidays! Wishing your family and lineage peace and joy in this and all seasons :) This month, some pieces by authors of recent books that speak to the motif of this newsletter, we hope you enjoy!
Happiness is Overrated - Finding Meaning in Work
Emily Esfahani Smith has researched the role of meaning in our lives for years, and recently wrote a book on it. Turns out there are definable elements of meaning, we can cultivate it, and the value has been shown to be lasting and societally impactful in a way happiness alone has not.
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'The Influential Mind' Knows How to Change Minds
Cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot's recent book focuses on how and why minds don't change through our culture's dominant approaches. She offers a series of alternatives that push boundaries for ourselves, and blur boundaries with others. As a bonus, another author Ozan Varol has a similar book on the topic, with valuable guidance as well.
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Awakening Compassion in the Workplace
A recent book focusing specifically on practices of compassion in the workplace is highlighted by Stanford Social Innovation Review- what kind of activities that could be, internal and external to the org, examples of who is practicing them, and measurable and ineffable results from this frontier of business practice.
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Unconscious Social Bias, and its Role at Work
Brain Pickings highlights the work of Shankar Vedantum, who wrote The Hidden Brain. The note highlights the importance of practicing awareness of where we are each swimming with, and against, the current. To have a broader context of the journey of each person we're in relationship with.
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