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By now, I had become thoroughly convinced that the constant act of letting go of one’s self-centered thoughts and emotions was all that was needed for profound personal, professional, and spiritual growth.
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
Work No Longer Has Clear Boundaries
A major factor in the mounting stress level is that the actual nature of our jobs has changed much more dramatically and rapidly than have our training for and our ability to deal with work. In just the last half of the twentieth century, what constituted “work” in the industrialized world was transformed from assembly line, make-it-and-move-it kinds of activity to what the late Peter Drucker so aptly termed “knowledge” work.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Most societies in history and around the world have been suspicious of those who do not look or sound like them. So deep-rooted is this in the human psyche that, in most languages, the name for the tribe that speaks your language simply means ‘people’, and serves to distinguish us (as ‘proper people’) from all the rest of the humans we occasionally bump into (who may often be classified with all the other animals).
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