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If I appeal to you for emotional connection and you respond intellectually to a problem, rather than directly to me, on an attachment level I will experience that as “no response.” This is one of the reasons that the research on social support uniformly states that people want “indirect” support, that is, emotional confirmation and caring from their partners, rather than advice. Often men say that they do not know how to respond on an emotional level. But they do! They do it when they feel safe, most often with their children. The tragedy here is that a man may be doing his best to answer his wife’s concerns by offering advice and solutions, not understanding that what she is really seeking from him is emotional engagement. His engagement is the solution for her.
Hold Me Tight
Sue Johnson
Why are we in business? (And by the way—what business are we really in?) Almost every company would acknowledge that it is in business to make money so that it can stay in business. But most companies, if you trace their origins, were started for more complex reasons than that. Many of the companies featured in this book—Patagonia, W. L. Gore, Nike, Airbnb, Panera, Netflix—started out on a quest to fill an unmet need, to make some aspect of our lives a bit easier, more convenient, more enjoyable. Most good companies are born trying to answer a question and solve a problem, which provides an early sense of purpose.
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
En principe, les totaux des flux entrants et sortants devraient chaque année s’équilibrer au niveau mondial. La complexité de ces opérations statistiques pourrait certes entraîner de légers écarts, mais qui devraient alors aller dans les deux sens, et s’équilibrer au cours du temps. Or il existe depuis les années 1980-1990 une tendance systématique à ce que les flux sortants de revenus du capital dépassent les flux entrants. Ces anomalies permettent d’estimer que les actifs financiers détenus dans les paradis fiscaux et non enregistrés dans les autres pays atteignaient au début des années 2010 près de 10 % du total des actifs financiers mondiaux. Tout indique en outre que la progression a continué depuis lors.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
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